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IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE LABOUR DEPT.’S REPORT (THB SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Friday. The restored favourable trade balance should shortly have the effect of creating a demand for labour. This is the optimistic view held by some commercial men and voiced in the report of the Department of Labour presented to Parliament yesterday. The report states that, contrary to expectations, with the onset of -winter, the applications at the labour bureaux had not increased: indeed, a decrease took place, due partly to the improved trade balance and to large numbers of applicants for employment having been sent to Government works. During the year the value of building permits showed a decrease of £1.359,000. The building trades had been busy in the four centres, but in Auckland and Christchurch the activities had been confined principally to bricklayers, structural steel workers, plasterers and others employed on large buildings.
L’nemployment is much greater in other countries than in New Zealand, but it is suggested the estimates of unemployment are misleading, as the question depends on the duration of unemployment in each case rather than on the number of persona.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 1
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188MORE WORK OFFERING Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 1
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