UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT.

INCREASING REGISTRATIONS

With the Public Works Department's relief works closed for .the present, unemployment m'n Christen urch is showing an increase since the holidays. There were 24 new registrations at the Government Unemployment Bureau yesterday, increasing the total number on the unemployment ■ list to 74. Of these, the greater majority of the men are labourers. POSITION AT DUNEDIN. [THE PRESS Special Service.] DUNEDIN, January 6. Once again Dunedin is threatened by the menace of unemployment, and the j outlook at the present time is a good ; deal blacker than it was at this time last year, The Labour Department forwarded returns to Wellington on j January 3rd, there then being fifty- ■ seven men on the unemployed register, thirty-nine being labourers. The position has since been accentuated by the i fact that the Public Works Department has paid off a number of men on tho Portobello road works, and of these some thirty iiave registered with the Labour Department. There are now eighty-seven names on the books, j

No cases of distress have coniiQ under the notice of the Labour Department's officials, who, however, regard the prospect as being far from reassuring. Little work is offering, but a certain proportion of men may be absorbed by farm operations.