LESS UNEMPLOYMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 9

LESS UNEMPLOYMENT.

LATEST BRITISH FIGURES. LARGER NUMBER AT WORK. LONDON. Sept. 22. After weeks of constant increase in unemployment., to-day's figures show an increase in < lie number of workers of 11,551, compared with the previous week. A new record in the number of registered unemployed was reported in the return for July 27, the total being 2,713.350. The previous highest aggregate of unemployed was recorded on March 9 (his year, when the total reached 2,691,737. A sharp increase at that time was attributed to temporary stoppages in the coalmining industry. By April 20 the figures had fallen to 2,513,856, and there was a further decline on May 18 to 2,506,937, which marked the lowest total for any week this year. Since then, notwithstanding two checks in the increase, the total had risen by 206,413 by the end of July. During the greater part of the present year the figures have been in excess of the high level of unemployment reached in June, 1921, during the national coal stoppage, when the number of those on the register reached 2,580,429. The number at July 31 was 701,883 greater than at the corresponding date in 1930. A fortnight later the total had increased io 2,714,359 and the increase evidently continued for four weeks beyond that date, as the return mentioned in the cable apparently refers to September 14. According to tho latest available infomation, the Ministry of Labour estimated that on July 27 (here were approximately 9,174.100 insured persons aged 16 to 64 years in employment, hi Great Britain. This was 97.000 less than a month before and 549,500 loss than a year before.