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THE UNEMPLOY- MENT SITUATIJN.

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Reference: Cabinet 40 (28). Con- clusion 1.)

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6. The Cabinet took note of a Memorandum by the

Minister of Labour (Paper C..-274 (28)) on the

subject of the Recent Trend of Unemployment Figures,

in which he stated that any improvement in the

general condition of employment in the near future

was likely to be spasmodic in character and uneven

in its effects on different industries, although

the present position was distinctly less unsatis-

factory than would have appeare likely at the

beginning of August last. Attached to the Memorandum

was a Table in which the course of the live register

figures was shown since the end of March, 1928,

with corresponding figures for the four previous

years.

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