MORE UNEMPLOYED
SMALL INCREASE SHOWN DOMINION TOTAL OF 78,627 [BY TELEGRAPH—PREBS ASSOCIATION] / WELLINGTON, "Wednesday The smallest increase for some time past is shown in the monthly returns of the Unemployment Board. From August 5 to September 2, 536 new men registered, while during the previous month the increase was 3057. The total number of unemployed on September 2 was 78,65)7. Of this number 4517 were ineligible for relief work for various reasons, leaving 74,110 a charge on the board's funds. It is estimated that at least 38,500 men are engaged on work of a definite reproductive and developmental nature in connection with .primary industries. Men on relief were engaged as follows:—No. 5 scheme (excluding gold prospecting), 49,299} subsidised employment on farms, 9867; various camps, 4370; subsidised employment at standard rates of pay by the Public Works Department, mostly married men, 2017; building subsidy scheme, 4595; gold prospecting, 3852; subsidised employment, various industries, 110.
The total numbers shown in the last year have been: —October 1, 73,596; October 29,' 71,971; November 26, 89,311; December 24, 69,281; January 21, 67,865; February 18, 65,782; March 18, 66,652; April 15, 68,255; May 13, 70,502; June 10, 72,918; July 8, 75,034; August 5, 78,091; September 2, 78,627. HIKURANGI ALLOCATION NO INCREASE POSSIBLE [by TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONnENT] WHANGAREI, Wednesday In reply to representations made through Mr. A. J. Murdoch, M.P., by unemployed and business people of Hikurangi for an increase in the relief allocation and the abolition of the standdown week,' the Hon. A. Hamilton, Minister of Employment, has replied as follows:
\ "The Unemployment Board definitely states that there has been no alteration in the basis of allocation since August of last year, and any variation since then would be due to fluctuations in the number of registrations. I regret that it is not possible to provide relief on a maximum scale anywhere, nor make any fuller allocation to Hikurangi.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 8
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