BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
LATEST WEEKLY RETURN. A FURTHER INCREASE. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, August 9. (Received August 10, at 9 p.m.) A further increase of over 22,000 in the number of persons unemployed is recorded in the latest weekly return of the Ministry of Labour. Of the 15,000 men who have applied for harvesting work in Canada, 3500 have now passed the doctor. Seventy per cent, of these are unemployed miners, for whose relief the scheme for sending 10,000 harvesters to Canada was chiefly inaugurated. A. very high standard of physical fitness is required in vie>v of the heavy and exacting nature of the work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20484, 11 August 1928, Page 12
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