BRITISH INDUSTRIES
INCREASED EMPLOYMENT GREAT BUILDING ACTIVITY (Received March 7, 7.5 p.m.) British Wireless . RUGBY, March G The building industry accounted for the return to work last month of more than 26,(C0 men. The total employed in this trade at February 19 'was 89,000 more than at the corresponding date last .year.
A favourable indication for t-lio immediate future of the metal industries is the increase in employment in iron and steel manufacture. Unemployment declined in every division last month, although in the north-eastern section, owing to the si*ate of the coal industry, the decline was small.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21744, 8 March 1934, Page 9
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