TRADE IMPROVES.
RETAIL SALES IN BRiTAIN. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, March 11. The total value of retail trade sales for the year ended in January, 1936, is reported to exceed £280,000,000, compared with rather less than £270,000,000 in the previous 12 months. Sales have shown a marked upward tendency in the last three years, and an increase of 6.5 per cent, last year over the preceding year affected each of the two main divisions of. merchandise and was shared by all the five areas.
Employment in the retail trade was nearly 3 per cent, higher last ar on the average. The average of wholesale prices in February was practically the same as in January, but showed an increase of 4.2 per cent, compared: with February, 1935.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 129, 13 March 1936, Page 5
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