§ Mr. MERRIMANasked the Minister of Labour the latest numbers of boys and girls, respectively, between the ages of 14 and 16, registered as unemployed in the Manchester area; and the numbers of the same on the corresponding date in 1924?
§ Mr. BETTERTONIt is not possible from the statistics regularly collected by the Department to state the number of juveniles between the ages of 14 and 16 registered as unemployed in the Manchester area, but at 23rd June there were in this area 370 boys and 311 girls between the ages of 14 and 18 registered as compared with 1,159 boys and 848 girls registered at 23rd June, 1924.