UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22058, 14 September 1933, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

LATEST REGISTRATIONS SLIGHT INCREASE SHOWN (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 13. The smallest increase for some time past is shown in the monthly returns of the Unemployment Board. From August 5 to September 2, 526 new men registered, while during the previous month the increase was 3057. The total number of unemployed at September 2 was 78,627. Of this number, 4517 were ineligible 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. Under the No. 5 scheme, excluding those gold prospecting, 49,299 men are now employed in subsidised employment. On farms there are 9867. In various camps there are 4370, and in subsidised employment at standard rates of pay by the Public Works Department 2017, most of whom are married men. Those engaged in the building subsidy scheme number 4595, in gold prospecting 3852, and in subsidised employment itl various industries 110. LOCAL ACTIVITIES WORK FOR TO-DAY The following groups will report with the Works Department at 8 a.m. to-day:— 62 Stafford street, at Alva street. 63 — Cavell street, at Lochend street. 64 Malvern street, at old sawmill. 65 M'Gill’s farm, top of Montague street. 66 The following men of group 66 at Fraser’s road at sanitary stables: J. Allison, G. G. Anderson, E. J. Bruce, J. Coory, W. E. Currie, W. Downie, A. Harrison, G. Jager, M. M’Lennan, A. Pauley. 66 The balance of group 66 at Melrose street, at Wallace street. 67 Preston crescent, at Harcourt street. 68— The following men of group 68 at Highgate, at Claremont street: H. Boland, C. W. Chapman, W. E. Dawson, T. C. Doherty. 68—The balance of group 68 at Dean street, at Taieri road. 60—Signal Hill road, at Roxburgh street. 70— Pine Hill road, at Gladstone road. 71 — Bible College, Patmos avenue, aquarter of a mile from Leith Valley road. 72 — Somerville street, at Abbotsford road. 73 — Preston crescent, at Harcourt street. 74 — Leith Valley road, a-quarter of a mile above Patmos avenue. 75 Wharf street, at Tip. 76 — Melrose street, at Wallace street. 78— Wharf street, at Tip. 79 — Lindsay road, at Thomson street. 81— Woodhaugh street, at Quarry, 82— Jarvis’s farm, Patmos avenue, one mile above Malvern street (arrive 8.10 a.m.). 808—York place, opposite Tennyson street. 808a —York place, opposite Tennyson street. The following groups will report for work with the Reserves Department at 8 a.m. to-day:— 294, 706—Opoho Football Ground. Stadium. GROUPS TO REPORT Every man in the following groups must report at the Labour Bureau, 11 King street, to-morrow: —201, 203, 210, 214. Any member of the above groups failing to report will be struck off his group, and will not receive further relief unless and until it is again granted to him by the Labour Bureau.