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Unemployment fell to 4.9 per cent (unadjusted) in Canterbury for the December quarter, down from 5.2 per cent for the September quarter, according to Statistics New Zealand figures released yesterday.
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Re:Start container mall director Paul Lonsdale said the retail sector was still obviously hampered by the demolition of the central business district. The rebuild would stimulate the regional economic activity and shelter Canterbury and the country from any continuation of the global financial downturn.
Christchurch Canterbury Tourism chief executive Tim Hunter said jobs in the tourism and hospitality sector would emerge as major hotels opened in the city in 2013. But at the same time it was hard to find young people to work in such jobs because of the difficulty in finding rental accommodation here.
Simon Graham of recruitment agency Graham Consulting said employers looking for workers were saying it was becoming increasingly difficult to find the skills and talent they were looking for. The industry was saying there was high demand hobbit travel minneapolis for skills right across hobbit travel minneapolis most sectors.
"We're definitely getting a lot of interest from New Zealanders working in the UK and Australia, saying Christchurch is looking like a pretty exciting place to work, what are the opportunities coming up?' "
Statistics NZ said the significant improvement in national unemployment to 6.9 per cent was because fewer people were looking for work and more people remained hobbit travel minneapolis outside the labour market for purposes such as student study. Westpac senior economist hobbit travel minneapolis Felix Delbruck said on a national level he thought the picture the household labour force survey showed was of a labour market that was "hardly rosy", but with a two-speed market given Canterbury's stronger showing.