SEEKING WORK

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12

SEEKING WORK

many applicants in AUCKLAND “POSITION LITTLE BETTER THAN IN WINTER” Dominion Special. Auckland, December 2. The advent of the summer mouths has not brought the improvement in the unemployment position that might have been expected. The books of the employment bureau of the Labour Department at Auckland show that there are 616 men seeking work, and of these 514 are classed as fit to do heavy work. These figures do not include unemployed shown on the list of the Returned Soldiers’ Association or men registered with the Engineers’ Union, so the position is very little better than in the winter months, when the Unemployment Committee was functioning. Very little hope for an improvement before the new vear was held out today bv those who are m close touch with the position, for the reason that industries that might be able to absorb a few more men are not likely,to employ more hands for the few remaining weeks of the year. Many carpenters are still idle without much prospect of work offering before New Year, while the engineering trades show no improvement. Timber workers, too, are out of work in unusually large numbers. Manv of the local bodies in and around Auckland undertook special works to assist unskilled workers during the winter, and the completion of some of these undertakings has tended to swell the total of those now seeking employment.