UNEMPLOYMENT
REDUCTION IN REGISTRATIONS. WELLINGTON, Monday. Returns issued to-night by the Unemployment Board show that applica- ' tions for work on the registers of the Government employment bureaux as at 17th February totalled 41,890. This number includes 4220 men on .the registers unplaced or ineligible for unemployment relief for various reasons. Of the remaining 37,676 receiving relief, it is estimated that 11,500 Avere employed on developmental and reproductive Avork calculated to benefit the Dominion’s primary industries. Workers engaged in industrial undertakings Avhose earnings are subsidised from the Unemployment Fund, as at February, Avere: —Farm Avorkers (schemes 4a, 4b, etc.), 10,000; building, tradesmen and builders’ labourers under scheme 10, 6954; Avorkers in Government Departments and local body camps, under scheme 6, principally single men, 2738; workers employed by the Public Works Department at standard rates of pay (principally married men), 3342; gold miners and prospectors, 3608; miscelancous, 80; total, 26,722. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 March 1934, Page 6
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