RUSH OF REGISTRATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 4 October 1929, Page 6

RUSH OF REGISTRATIONS

CHRISTCHURCH BUREAU FLOODED CHRISTCHURCH, Oct; 4; Doubtless as a . result of the promise of the Prime Minister to absorb all urtemplbyccb within five weeks, there' was a rush of registrations at the Government Labour Bureau to-day. The number of registrations to-day was 438. Previously the daily average had been about eighty. Of the men re gistcring to-day, 119 had never previously registered. The total in the Department’s books is now SIS. APPLICATIONS AT DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, Oct. 4. One hundred and forty-eight applications for employment were received at the Labour Department’s Dunedin bureau yesterday. Three hundred and seventy names now appear on the register. All of these have enrolled during the past fortnight, and of the number, 150 are without dependent's. WELLINGTON UNEMPLOYED ENROLL WELLINGTON, Oct. 4. Since the announcement made by the Government on Wednesday that all unemployed would have to register before benefiting under the relief scheme, there has been a phenomenal rush to register at the Wellington bureau. In two days, Wednesday and Thursday the actual city figures jumped from 274 to 588, an increase of over .100 per cent.