DEMAND FOR LABOUR
MR. ARMSTRONG'S CLAIM NO ABLE-BODIED UNEMPLOYED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI, Friday Addressing an audience at Fordell to-day, the Minister of Labour, tho Hon. H. T. Armstrong, repeated his assertion that there was not an ablebodied man in the country to-day out of employment. In 1936, he said, the amount paid in wages in New Zealand was £66.209,000, and in 1938 it was £91,053,000, an increase of over £24.000,000. Tho income of people from sources other than wages and salaries increased in the same period by £23,905,000, the Minister stated. For extra Sd collected in unemployment taxation, people, therefore, had an extra 19s 4a to spend. The Government had been accused of drafting all unemployed into public works camps, but, of 79,200 unemployed, only 18,000 had gone on to public works. In 1928. said the Minister, there were 10,227 registered apprentices, and in 1935. when the Government took office, tho number decreased to 3329. There were now close on 9000 and it would not bo long before tho 10.000 mark was reached.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 11
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175DEMAND FOR LABOUR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 11
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