JUBILEE HARVEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 10

JUBILEE HARVEST.

MILLIONS SPENT. VISITORS IN LAVISH MOOD BRITAIN'S GOLDEN WEEKS vSpeclal.—By Air Mail.) LONDON. August ".

Celebrations for the Royal Silver Jubilee ended with the close of the London season after last week's garden party at Buckingham Palnce. The jubilee is over, leaving behind it the greatest story of buying, spending and employing that Britain lias known for more than twenty years. The Silver Jubilee was golden. By the beginning of jubilee week the money in circulation was £19,400,000 more than at the same time last year. People wanted £19,000,000 more to spend on the jubilee. On Jubilee Day 5,000,000 workers had a day's holiday— on full pay. Industry footed the bUI for £1,875,000. Gifts to other workers, poor law relief and unemployed totalled £771,500. The jubilee brought 350,000 extra visitors to London. From the Empire came 30,000, from America 30,000, and from other places overseas 75,000. In jubilee week London underground railways took £40,000 more than for the same time last year. In four days 46,000,000 fares* were registered by London transport. Receipts of the four main lino railways jumped bv over £150,000 during the great week. And when the oeak of the jubilee was over the inward stream of visitors did not cease. During June a further 28,i59 foreign visitors arrived in England. That was an increase of 3204 over June last year. Normally tourist class visitors to Britain spend £i>0,000,000 a year here. Empire, colonial and foreign visitors together during the jubilee summer months were greater in numbers by nearly 50 per cent. 'At a moderate estimate" this meant another £8,000,000 for British transport, ' hotels, theatres, cinemas, shops. These are the trades and the men who benefited most by the jubilee:—Timber trade and carpenters shared £SO,OOO worth of woodwork in London's jubilee stands. Transport workers shared in the country's £3,000,000 worth of fares. In London alone £40,000 went to the men and women who made and put up the flags, decorations and lights. The potteries made 5,000,000 jubilee mugs. Birmingham made medals and jubilee novelties for the world. The printing and paper trades shared in the .appeals, the circulars, the supplements, that the jubilee demanded.