EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
SOME IMPROVEMENT SHOWN LAST MONTH (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 5. The Ministry of Labour estimates that on August 15 of this year, the number of insured persons in employment in Great Britain, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,402,000. This is 31,000 more than a month earlier, but, on a comparable basis, about 300,000 less than a year ago. At the same date the registered number of unemployed, including persons within the agricultural scheme, totalled 1,759,242, comprising 1,262,343 wholly unemployed. 439,024 temporarily laid off and 57.875 normally in casual employment. The total was 13,874 less than a month earlier, but on a comparable basis, 451,000 more than a year ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6
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117EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6
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