EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT SHOWN. (British Official Wireless.) , RUGBY, May 8. The Ministry of Labour estimates the number oi insured persons in employment in Britain on April 17 at approximately 12,511,000 —108,000 more than a month before, and, on a comparable basis, 270,000 more than a year before. At the same date the registered unemployed totalled 1,644,394, comprising 1 343,295 wholly unemployed, 238.729 temporarily laid off and 62,370 normally in casual employment. This total is 82,535 less than in'March and 103,370 less than in April. 1938.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 5
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87EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 5
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