§ Mr. R. Gibsonasked the Minister of Labour what is the course of unemploy-
— 11th March, 1940. 12th February, 1940. 13th March, 1939. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent Building 141 9.2 265 17.2 253 18.2 Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing 684 13.0 808 15.4 1,967 35.1 General Engineering, etc. 48 1.6 50 1.7 135 5.1 Marine Engineering, etc. 106 2.5 138 3.3 351 8.2 Shipping Service 105 10.6 125 12.6 252 21.7 Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Industries. 119 12.1 139 14.2 111 11.1 Distributive Trades 416 9.8 497 11.7 756 17.7 Dock, Harbour, River, Canal, etc. Service. 161 17.5 257 27.9 435 44.8 All other industries and services* 1,068‡ 12.9 1,194 14.4 1,913 22.5 Total all industries and services* 2,848 9.7 3,473 11.8 6,173 20.7 *These figures are exclusive of unemployed insured persons within the agricultural scheme. ‡Of this total 251 were in hotel, boarding house, etc. services, 91 in local Government service, 77 in public works contracting and 45 in bread, biscuit, cake, etc. manufacture. The remaining 604were distributed over a large variety of industries, in each of which the numbers unemployed were small.