persons if at any time during the "extended period" the outstanding Treasury advances plus accrued interest fall below the debt outstanding weekly Treasury advances plus accrued interest should exceed the amount of the debt outstanding at 31st December persons. This provision, and the rates of Exchequer contribution shown, however, never became operative, being repealed by

2 1,351,452 52,289
9 1,353,183 52,888 1,406,071
16 1,354,527 52,314 1,406,841
23 1,348,960 52,349 1,401,309

1,358,940 53,096
6 1,387,878 52,666
13 1,400,868 53,155
20 1,401,093 53,132 1,454,225

Dec. 2 1,845,723 118,507 1,964,230
1,854,916 120,275 1,975,191 Dec. 4

16 1,841,141 118,645 1,959,786

1,824,643 118,570 1,943,213

30 1,885,478 122,389 2,007,867

1,712,825 65,212
1,712,051 64,743
1,686,299 66,273

1,778,037

1,776,794

1,646,626 62,033

1,609,743 61,248

1,565,429 60,052

1,752,572
1,708,659 May 7
1,670,991
1,625,481

1,519,589 59,300
1,475,405 57,428
1,475,272 57,994
1,467,728 56,570

1,578,889
1,532,833 June 4
1,533,266
1,524,298

1,357,322

1,689,058 Sept. 4 1,352,142 51,392
1,342,292 50,577
18 1,344,912 51,072
25 1,342,503 51,422

56,988 1,493,088
54,744 1,477,782 July 2
56,408 1,460,707
17 1,398,728 56,346 1,455,074
1,389,257 54,657 1,443,914
1,378,835 52,904 1,431,739
1,352,248 52,621 1,404,869 Aug. 6
1,356,330 51,795 1,408,125
1,359,376 52,572 1,411,948
51,267 1,408,589
1,403,534 Sept. 3
1,392,869
10

23

16

1,266,500 48,365 1,314,865 23 1,263,665 46,866 1,310,531

30

14

28

25

20

1,223,152 39,115 1,262,267 1,225,937 40,020 1,265,957 1,223,622 42,367 1,265,989 1,215,765 42,922 1,258,687 1,221,554 42,574 1,264,128 1,232,585 42,402 1,274,987 1,228,541 41,634 1,270,175 1,248,163 42,319 1,290,482 1,261,969 41,714 1,303,683

27

1,268,828 41,358 1,310,186 1,275,396 42,411 1,317,807 1,265,302 42,045 1,307,347 1,270,905 42,091 1,312,996 1,275,770 43,182 1,318,952

1

8

15

1,296,782 42,040

1,338 822

1,410,917 54,331 1,465,248 26 1,261,838 41,707 1,303,545 1,414,619 53,090 1,467,709 Dec. 3 1,237,505 40,939 1,278,444 1,413,244 55,339 1,468,583 10 1,222,079 41,032 1,263,111 18 1,381,612 54,547 1,436,159 17 1,174,486 39,849 1,214,335 § § § 1,285,623 41,251 1,326,874

24 31

The figures include all workpeople on the registers, including, in addition to those wholly unemployed, persons temporarily work on the dates to which the figures relate. Some unemployed persons, however, do not register at Employment Exchanges. by the Unemployment Insurance Act of August, 1924, brought on to the records certain classes of unemployed persons who probably had some effect in reducing the numbers registered.

General coal mining stoppage in progress (1st April to 1st July, 1921).

The administration of Unemployment Insurance and of Employment Exchanges in the Irish Free State was transferred to the Great Britain and Northern Ireland. § Figures not available.

suspended and persons who, though employed on a basis of systematic short time, were not actually at It should be noted that administrative changes made in February, 1924, and legislative changes made would previously not have registered. Conversely, in 1925, legislative and administrative changes

Provisional Government in April, 1922, and from 17th April, 1922, the figures given are in respect of

30

1,165,275 61,727

1,227,002

7

14

21 1,102,400
§

1,161,257 62,587
1,127,446 61,881
63,751

1,223,844

1,189,327

1,166,151

§

KINGDOM*, VACANCIES NOTIFIED, VACANCIES FILLED, Etc., 1910-1925.†

* The figures for all years up to and including 1921 are in respect of the United Kingdom. From that date the figures refer to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

†The figures in this table include Post Office Christmas Workers, but do not include casual workers such as dock labourers and coal porters. In 1925 the number of persons for whom temporary Post Office work at Christmas was obtained through Employment Exchanges was 38,260.

Eleven months only.

§ Figures not available.

||For a period of four weeks at the end of 1925 the figures do not include registrations of persons "Temporarily stopped."