The Ministry of Labour estimates that on December 17 there were ap-'Proximately 10,248,000 insured. per= ons aged 16 to 64' in employment in Great Britain, This was 36.000 more than on November 26, 1994, and 237,000" more than on December 18, 1033, There was a further improvement in employment during the month in the coal mining, cotton and motor vehicle industries and in distributive trades. Some improvement was also recorded in the engineering industry, and in the hotel and boarding-house service. There was also a decline in employment in the building, pottery, woollen and worsted, hosiery and boot and shoe industries, On December 17, the number of unemployed persons on the registers of employment exchanges in Great Britain, totalled 2,085,818. This was 94,970 tess than the number on the register on November 26, 1994, and 198,264 less than the year before. The total comprised 1,886,507 men, 56,277 boys, 299.192 women and 43, 839 girls—Wireless through Reuter.
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