LESS UNEMPLOYMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1935, Page 5

LESS UNEMPLOYMENT

AUGUST FIGURES IN BRITAIN. NUMBER LESS THAN 2,000,000. British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 9. The progressive rise in the number of persons in employment was continued during August and there was another fall in the number of persons unemployed. Since January, 1935, the number of unemployed has. decreased by more than 377,000 and in the whole period since 1921, the first year for which comparable statistics are available, the reduction of the last seven months has been exceeded only in the corresponding periods of 1922 and 1923. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at August 26 there were approximately 10,424,000 insured persons aged from 16 to 64 in employment in Great Britain. This Is 43,000 more than on July 22 and 244,000 more than on the corresponding date a year ago. On August 26 the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers in Great Britain totalled 1,947,964, comprising 1,533,259 wholly unemployed, 334,419 temporarily “laid-off” and 80,286 normally in casual employment, the total being 24,977 less than on July 22 and 188,614 less than .a year before. The month of August always shows an increase in the number of juveniles unemployed, this being accounted for by the registration of boys and girls who left school at the end of the summer term. Last month there was an increase of almost 22,000 in the number of unemployed juveniles but, allowing for that increase, the number of unemployed men and women actually decreased by almost 47,000.