UNEMPLOYMENT
Position in dominion. REDUCTION IN LAST YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Figures showing the number of unemployed were released yesterday by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb. The return for February 11. 1939, including those on 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 nosit ion for lasi month there is a decrease of 418. Detail for February 11, 1939, are as follows:— Registered, but not on relief 823 On. sustenance awaiting placement “ On Scheme No. 5 relief 1143 On sustenance, unfit for employment for health or other reasons, but being afforded relief from the Employment Promotion Fund 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 5
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