FEWER UNEMPLOYED
DOMINION RETURNS FEBRUARY STATISTICS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The unemployment returns for February 11, 1939, including persons an the register, who are for health or other reasons unfit for employment, discloses a reduction of 6814, as against the corresponding figure for February 12, 1938. Compared with the position for last month, there is a decrease of 418. Details as at February 11, 1939, are as follows: 'Registered but not on relief, 823; on sustenance awating placement, nil; on scheme No. 5 relief, 320; total, 1143; on sustenance, unfit for employment for health or other reasons, 'but being afforded relief from the employment promotion fund, 7284. For the four-weekly period under review, the expenditure from the fund under the heading of promotion of employment, as distinct from relief expenditure, is estimated at £492,710.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 5
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