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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 9

11 We have three jobs for every man | out of work,” said the Minister for labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb), when in an election address last week he gave details of unemployment figures in Christchurch and southern centres. In Christchurch, Mr Webb said, he had 195 men available for work. He had arranged for 350 jobs for fhose 195 men registered as out of work. la Timaru there* were 70 men, and 217 vacancies; ifi Oamary, 12 mqja and IQ! vaggneiesj J&vSrpaj-giU, 81 jnen ai*d 433; Cunedin, AS! for SJQ jobs. There were only 550 pdd men gat Qt wgjk- Ha had arranged i°t weris. for Sq that h© had &Tlfljjg.9d thro® yobs Xoi' ovary man. out of work “There axe Ift&sy mop out of work. who. cannot take Pa *qbi£ of this work we have arranged/’ to Wekk said, “hut we axe try ing to persuade. local bodies to help them; and T must say Christchurch, with, to Macfarlaae as Mayor, has done i-ta job.’ ’ .More than 1200 -man were employed by the Government to-day in | improving the social amenities of the people. Nearly 2000 men were employed in laud development work.