UMEMPLOYMEMT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 348, 8 October 1932, Page 5

UMEMPLOYMEMT

(Special to "Post")

DOMINION FSGURES TOTALS FOR PAST -WEEK SHOW SLIGHT INCREASS ANALYSIS OF POSITION

Wellington, Friday. I For the week which ended on October 1, there was a total of 72,596 males wholly or partly dependent upon relief from unemployment funds, aecording to a return issued to-night by the Hon. Adam Hamilton, acting-Ivlinister -of Employment. ■ This represents an increase of 355 on the number for the eorresponding period during the previous month. Of the total mentioned, 67,057 men were in one way or an other a charge on the funds of the Unemployment Board and of tliose it is estimated that at. least 36,000 were engaged on developmental or reproductive work in connection with the Dominion's primary industries. Most of the men unplaced in a total of 6539 were, for various reasons, not eligible for relief under the board's schemes. The number of rne-n remaining on the registers of the Emploj'ment Bureau totalled 55,728, representing a decrease of 728 on tho figure recorded four weeks previously. ■ OI the number registered 49,189 were in reeeipt of relief under schemo No. 5. In addition there were

17,863 men and youths in employment provided through the medium oi' assistance granted from the unemployment fund, bringmg the' total receiving employment to the figure of 67,057 already mentioned. Appended is an analysis of the total number of men who were in oue way 01* another, a charge upon the fund. On the bureau registers and ernployed under Scheme No. 5, 45,928; subsidi-od employment on farms, under schemes Nos. 4A, 3B, farm camo schemes, etc., 22,198; eamp schemes (mostly single men) : land improvement and develcpment, 1,642; highway and backhlocks roads, 1237 ; afforestation (State Forcst Service), 766; buildings subsidy scheme, 161(3; gold prospecting schemes (exelusive of 1251 men prospecting under Scheme No. 5), 254; miscelianeous (subsidised employment in various industries), 145; total receiving employment, 67,057. On registers but unplaced 6539. Total wholly or partly dependent upon relief 73,596.