N.Z. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 3.9 PCT IN DECEMBER QUARTER

  New Zealand's unemployment rate was
  3.9 pct of the workforce in the quarter ended December 31,
  unchanged from a revised 3.9 pct (preliminary 3.8 pct) in the
  previous quarter but slightly above 3.8 pct in the year-earlier
  quarter, the Statistics Department said.
      The Department, citing the Household Labour Force Survey,
  said in a statement the number of unemployed in October-
  December 1986 was 61,500 against 60,500 in the September
  quarter and 60,500 a year earlier.
  

