NON-PRODUCERS
IN AUSTRALIAN COMMERCE.
Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, August 24
A paper on population factors, affecting employment, read at the Science congress, revealed that only 57 per cent of Australia’s bread-winners /were engaged in actual production. Commerce and transport absorbed -24 per cent., and professional and domes--1 tic occupations about 18 per Cent. Tile high proportion in commerce htld 'transport necessarily contributed to the high costs, which handicapped Australian production,.-... ■ The paper was prepared by U.E*ley, He calculated that for every hundred 'producers in Now Zealand, there were S 3 non producers. ' Tht. position in -both countries, ho contended, ,was unhealthy and inimical to pro. gross.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1932, Page 5
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