UNEMPLOYMENT
OFFICIAL FIGURES. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, April 7. The official unemployment registrations for the four-weekly period, ended March 17, totalled 41,407, compared with 41,896 on February 1.. Those receiving relief totalled 36,853, as against 37,676. It is estimated tha’- 11,300 on relief were employed on developmental and reproductive work, calculated lo benefit the Dominion’s primary industries. The numbers e~ aged in industrial undertakings, whose earnings are subsidised from the Board’s funds, also show a decrease from 26,722 to 25,410. ATTITUDE ENDORSED. By Telegraph—Press Association NELSON, April 7. Speaking to-day, the Mayor, Mr W. J. Moffatt, said that he was entirely in agreement with the reasons given by Mr Geo. Page for the resign tion of the chairmanship of the local Unemployment Committee, which was the unfair treatment of the smaller centres by the Board and the feeling that local committees were becoming merely a buffer between the Board and the workers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19768, 9 April 1934, Page 3
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152UNEMPLOYMENT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19768, 9 April 1934, Page 3
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