WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
INCREASE OF FAILURES. LONDON. More women failed in business last year than in the previous year, according to the fifty-fifth general annual report on bankruptcy issued by the Board of Trade. The total number of such failures in 1937 w,as against 414 the previous year. The trades in which the greatest number of women's failures occurred were: Milliners and dressmakers, 68; grocers, 37; drapers, 25; and lodging house keepers, 24. Unusual vocations for women referred to in the report include 19 builders, 14 farmers, a saddler, four carriers, four fishmongers, a contractor, and a wheelwright. Builders figure more prominently than any other category in the general report on failures, the number of receiving orders being 316 in 1937, against 330 the previous year. For grocers the figure was 187,, against 180; decorators and plumbers 85, against 84; farmers 166, against 125; butchers 91, against S3; and dairymen 99, against 80.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 20, 25 January 1939, Page 20
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