UNEMPLOYMENT.
DEOREASE IN TOTAL.
MORE MEN ON BELIEF,
(By Telegraph.—press association.)
WELLINGTON, Saturday,
■mo report of tho Unemployment Board on the registrations of unemployed as at July G reveals an Increase in tho total number of males who are wholly or partly a charge on the Unemployment Fund. The present total of 55,503 represents an increase of 2327 on tho corresponding figure recorded last month. The number In receipt of part-time employment under scheme 5 or on sustenance in lieu of relief work, as at July 6, was 38,085 compared with 37,151 In July 1931, an Increase of 931.
Tho number in full-time employment but assisted by wages subsidies from the Unemployment Fund was 17,183 compared with 23,182 a year ago a decrease of 5999. This makes the total number who are a charge on tho Unemployment Fund 55,508 oompared with 00,033 a year ago, a reduction of 5005.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19634, 22 July 1935, Page 9
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