MORE AT WORK.
GREAT IMPROVEMENT SHOWN. THE MINING INDUSTRY BUSIER. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 9. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at July 26 the number of insured persons in employment In Britain, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,517,000, or 511,000 more than a year ago. At the same date the number of registered unemployed was 1,379,459 —namely, 1,069,180 wholly unemployed, 246,615 temporarily laid off, and 63,664 normally in casually employment. That total, which was made up of 1,074,474 men, 40,392 boys, 221,4 00 women and 43,193 girls, was 22,861 more than at June 21, but 272,613 less than a year ago. Juveniles, who registered for the first time on leaving school at the end of the summer term, totalled 2*2,042. Contrary to the seasonal trend, there was a reduction of unemployment in the coalmining industry. An analysis shows that 575,000, ‘or 4 6 per cent, of the total registered unemployed, had been without work l'or less than six weeks.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 7
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164MORE AT WORK. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 7
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