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UNEMPLOYMENT FUND—continued. Recipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1.935 —continued. Receipts—continued. Payments—continued. £ s. d. £ s. d. Brought forward .. .. .. 5,245,078 5 8 Brought forward .. .. .. 3,536,098 13 7 Loans under section 18, Unemployment Act, 1930.. .. .. .. .. 14,403 4 4 Loans under section 17, Unemployment Act, 1930.. .. .. '.. .. 8,000 0 0 Payments under section 17, Unemployment Act, 1930 .. .. .. .. 39,362 2 1 Sustenance payments under section 20, Unemployment Act, 1930 .. .. 239,983 0 8 Purchase of food, clothing, &c., section 14, Unemployment Amendment Act, 1932— Purchase of foodstuffs by £ s. d. rationing system .. 38,640 17 10 Purchase of footwear .. 34,551 4 11 Purchase of blankets .. 317 12 6 Miscellaneous .. 375 12 4 73,885 7 7 Grants to persons entitled to sustenance .. .. .. 400 1 10 Balance at end of year — Cash .. .. 1,332,169 12 8 Imprests outstanding .. 776 2 11 1,332,945 15 7 £5,245,078 5 8 £5,245,078 5 8 J. S. Hunter, Commissioner of Unemployment. H. L. Bockett, A.R.A.N.Z., Accountant. I hereby certify that the Statement of Receipts and Payments has been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly states the position as disclosed thereby.— J. H. Fowler, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General. REGISTRATION UNDER THE ACT. At 31st March, 1935, there were some 505,121 males on the register kept by the Post and Telegraph Department in accordance with section 10 of the Unemployment Act, 1930. This figure represents an increase of approximately 12,100 registrations during the year, and includes all males aged twenty years or over ordinarily resident in New Zealand at the time the Act came into force, together with those males who have attained the age of twenty years since December, 1930, and males aged twenty years or over who subsequently arrived in the Dominion with the intention of becoming permanently resident. Excluded from this figure are those males who have died or have left the Dominion permanently after registration under the Act. In order words, the register is a fairly accurate record of all males aged twenty years or over (including Maoris) permanently domiciled in New Zealand at the date mentioned. It is used mainly as a basis for collection of special unemployment-relief taxation. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUND. About 91 per cent, of the males on the register mentioned in the preceding section are contributors to the Unemployment Fund by way of the general unemployment levy of £1 per annum. The actual number of individual instalments of the levy as received by the Post and Telegraph Department up to the 31st March, 1934, is shown in the following table : —

The apparent drop in number of contributors in respect of the February, 1935, instalment is a usual feature of these statistics. There is always a considerable number who do not effect payment of instalments within one month of the due date,

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Instalment Date. Amount of Instalment. . _ . , . . - . _ _ , s. d. December, 1930-June, 1931 (inclusive) .. .. 7 6 426,288* August, 1931-November, 1931 (inclusive) .. 5 0 427,027* February, 1932-November, 1932 (inclusive) .. 5 0 430,847* February, 1933-November, 1933 (inclusive) .. 5 0 435,899* February, 1934 .. .. .. .. 5 0 437,242 May, 1934 .. .. .. .. 5 0 435,680 August, 1934 .. .. .. .. .. 5 0 429,946 November, 1934 .. .. .. .. 5 0 413,954 February, 1935 .. .. .. .. 5 0 381,936 * Average number of contributors.