N.Z UNEMPLOYMENT
TOTAL IS . NOW OVER 78,000
(Per Press Association —Copyright)
WELLINGTON, August 16.
The unemployed on the register on, August 5, o r transferred to schemes, other than Scheme No. 5, totalled 78,091, an increase of 3,057, compared with July 8. | Of the 78,091 men, 5,125 were in- J eligible for relief for various reasons, leaving 72,966 a charge on the Board’s funds. . These were engaged as follows ; Scheme No. 5 (excluding gold prospecting) 49,21*9; subsidised employment on farms 11,566 ; land improvements and development 1,680 ; - highways and badeblock roads 1,184 ; afforestation 1,232; subsidised employment at standard .rates of pay by P.W.D. 1,828 ; building subsidy 2.411; gold prospect* ing 3,744; miscellaneous (subsidised eni. ployment in various industries) 102. ! *l,t is estimated that at least* 40,000 men are engaged on. work of a do•finjite ’.reproductive developmental nature, in connection with the primary industries. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 2
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