BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
INCREASE IN NUMBER COMPARATIVE STATISTICS (Received October 6, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 5 The seasonal decline in employment in hotel and boarding-house services and the distributive trades and the building industry, as well as the increase in the number of men temporarily laid off in the coalmining industry, amounting to more than 34,000, explains the rise o& 10,399 in the total number of persons unemployed last month compared with August.
The Ministry of Labour estimates that at September 21 there were approximately 10,966,000 insured persons aged from 16 to 64 in employment in Britain. This was 5000 more than a month ago and 488,000 moro than in tho year before at the same date. The number of registered unemployed at September 21 last totalled 1,624,339, comprising 1,322,934 wholly unemployed, 232,122 temporarily laid off and 69,283 normally in casual employment. This was 10,399 more than at August 24, but 334,271 less than at September 23, 1935.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 13
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