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18 The Guardian,

Jobs Show| SURE, THERE'LL BE A BiG SAVING OF THE Winer |GREEN DURING LUCKY DOLLAR STORES:

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OTTAWA ‘CP Unemploy- ment, which usually rises be- tween mid-January and mid- February, resisted that trend tear elperrenep eter’ [Lp » | d begorria! ‘Tis the luck of the Irish ye'll be having if ye ‘igures release ednesday showed the national jobless rate ith an orria e Ss e U °o e ris ye e g y running at 5.8 per cent in Feb- ) ed to seven per h O costa year earlier and 84 per .§ op at LUCKY DOLLAR FOOD ST RES cent in February of 1963. It was six per cent in January

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son, the labor force grew by 2.3 per cent to 6.844.000, the num-

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this year and did the reverse,

department said the gain in non- farm jobs for the year was 285.-

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most 11 per cent.

was in housing, stimulated by

ATLANTIC FIGURES BAD Unemployment rates dropped

. rahe a ber at work rose by 3.6 per cent ta to 6,446,000 and unemplovment Lbs. : a fell 17 per cent to 398,000 from . : _ 467 .000 . : The joint report by the Dur- For y eau of statistics and the labor

rs a a “fe 4 j oa ie : : ge os es Reviewing the January - to- i 4 Sa rae ¢ February situation, the report : ‘4 a , : said employment held up well Approx. Per / Tee - ee ed Pp in almost ali non-farm indus- ' , > aw, fie tee & Lap tries with construction ‘‘very 6 to 8 Lbs. Lb oo ae. a! 4 oe Pe 4 - 4 ” % - ‘ S active for the time of year. ° 4 ot Ped fe» Much of the construction surge xi ©

ceo IT'S NO BLARNEY! LOOK AT THESE 'FOINE’ VALUES!

ain all regions except the Atlan- tie provinces, long the darkest spot in the national employ- ment picture. There the 78,000 unemployed represented 13 per cent of the labor force, a rise from 10.8 per cent in January and 12.7 in February of last year.

In Ontario, the unemployment rate dipped to 3.7 per cent in February, the Prairie rate

stood at four, British Columbia's te was 5.8 and Quebec's 7.4, all down slightly from January. LY

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figure matched only once since 1957 and that was just last De- O55 get cember. The adjusted rate for ay

January was 43 per cent. Pay

The unemployed included 338,-

000 men, down 64,000 on the year, and 60,000 women, down 5,000. An estimated 25,000 of the ‘women were married.

Oratorical Contest Held At Spring Park

Spring Park United Church Men held a father-son banquet Tuesday in the ehurch Hall. A special feature of the evening, was an oratori- cal contest for boys in the ehurch. Last evening’’s winners will represent Spring Park in an Island-wide competition sponsored by the United Church. Jack Kipping won the junior

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aged 811. Donald Campbell was second and Elwood Good- win was third. The boys had to speak for three minutes on “What the Chuch means to me. The senior division was won by Hal Dunsford who spoke for eight minutes on ‘Faith’. Over 90 people attended the banquet, and the judges had a difficult time choosing the winners in the various catagor- ies. Judges for last evening’s contest were Rev. Henry Tye, Park Royal, Rev. Gerald Wry- as, Trinity, and Dr. Donald MacKay, Charlottetown. Chairman for the evening was Ernie Lord and Ralph Mallett handled the entries for the con- test. Supper was provicied by the Spring Part Wotan” am sociation. * Ae

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Many farmers in parts of northern and western Transvaal have had to leave their withered- up

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