§ Mr. DAYasked the Postmaster-General whether it is proposed to further extend the policy of the overseas wireless telephone service from this country with ocean liners and other countries by direct radio telephone service; and will he give particulars?
§ Major TRYONIt is the policy of the Post Office to extend the scope of the overseas telephone service by the establishment of direct or indirect radiotelephone services wherever suitable arrangements can be made. During the past six months the service has been extended to Ceylon, Kenya, Tasmania, Paraguay, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and French Equatorial Africa, as
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Numbers of insured persons, aged 16 to 64 years, recorded as unemployed in February, and March, 1936, in the principal industries in Leicester, and these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1935. Industry. 24th February, 1936. 23rd March, 1936. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Building … … … … 768 10.8 530 7.4 General Engineering, etc … … … 304 3.0 300 3.0 Printing, Publishing and Book binding … 157 4.7 149 4.4 Hosiery … … … … 2,688 9.0 2,655 8.8 Boots, Shoes, etc. … … … … 2,275 11.6 2,047 10.4 Distributive Trades … … … 972 7.0 958 6.9 All other Industries and Services … 3,597 10.2 2,919 8.3 Total, all Industries and Services … 10,761 9.0 9,558 8.0 well as to a number of additional ocean liners. Further extensions will be arranged as circumstances permit.