UNEMPLOYMENT
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 4. The Ministry of Labour estimates that on December 12 the number of insured persons in employment in Britain was approximately 12,263,000. This was 5000 more than for the month before and about 10,000 more than a year ago. At the same date the registered number of unemployed totalled 1,831.372, comprising 1,474,019 wholly unemployed, 294,708 temporarily laid off, and 62,645 normally in casual employment. This total was 3269 more than a month ago, and 165,965 more than last year. The total included 1,384,922 men. 45,549 boys, 356,580 women and 44,321 girls.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1939, Page 4
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103UNEMPLOYMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1939, Page 4
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