MANPOWER SURVEY RESULTS

Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1946, Page 7

MANPOWER SURVEY RESULTS

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— , LITTLE UNEMPLOYMENT IN ! DOIVUNION j

By Telearaph -

WELLINGTON, July 9. I The overall eniploymeiit position ' ihrougliout New Zealand lias rennuned i inurkedly buovanl despite a furtlierj lapering olf during June, of such actlv-1 ity as killing operations iu freezing j works, said .iion. A. McLagan, Minisler! of lndustrial Manpower, tonignt. He \ added that the nuiuber of disengaged | uiales had increased by only 81 from j 18G at the end of May, to 5(i7 to tliei end of June, a niuclr smaller increase i tlian it previously had been estimaLed | would occur about this time, after making allowance for the cessation ot seasonal activities. With the estinuited male labour force in all industrics oi 480,009, tlie male rate of unemploy- i ment stood at the very low level oi .12 1 per cent, liotwithstanding the dembbil- ' isation between \'J Day (15/8/45) and j i .15/15/4(5, of 8J,81J service personnel and j ' the revocation of all industrial man- 1 power controls. ! The nuiuber of disengaged femalesi reuiained mucli the same with 28 rccord | I evl at the end of May and 20 at Ihe ; eud of June. Notiiied vacaucies for males over tlie : country as a whole had increased from [ 7288 at Ihe eml of May to 8050 at the ! end of June and for femalcs from • j L 1,(500 to 11,705 respectively. Overall, 1 I the notiiied vacaucies represented an j ! increase of 870 during June and 2750; j siuee tlie end of March. I Of the male vacaucies 088(5 are for j j skilled meii, 21)20 for unskilled and 1250' i for juveniles. 'J'lie correspoiiding lig- , ■ ures for females wero 0(55.5 for skilled,' j 499(5 for unskilled, and 0084 for juve- , I niles. , • The largest nuiuber of * inen was i j wanted 111 building and const ruclion : witli 201-1 vacaucies, followed by 1 58(5 ■ in engineering and allied industries ; incJuiliiig railways workshops. Tlie 1 largest Jiuniber wf women was required j for clothing factories with 4040 vucau- ! cies, hospitals 1070 and hotols and j j catering 720 vacaucies. Of 805(5 male1 j vacaucies, (5-1 1 T wei'e coiicentrated in the six employment distriets of Auck-i land, Hamilton, Lower Hutt, Welling- . ton, Christchurch and Dunedin. Of tlie; 11,705 female notiiied vacaucies 10,405 j oceurred in the same distriets. Mr. McLagan added that (he most . marked shortages occurred in mai 11 j urban distriets. There wero, howevor, j sevenil distriets wlierc between seasons,] cui£)lo-yment always had been a diflicult problem but. 111 tliese distriets,; although 110 substautial ditficulties .appeared this winter, verv little if any! work at present was olfering unskilled ' and semi-iit men. The presence of ' small surpJuses of labour in tliese dis- 1 tricls due to the end of seasonal activities, made it possible to put iu hand to the limited extent of the uumbers available, some of the prioritv projects ineluded in tlie national works programme.