BRIGHT SPOTS IN THE NEWS
There was a general firming in the prices of non-ferrous metals on the London market on Tuesday. The price of tin recovered £2 a ton. Shipping and cargo returns for the port of Wellington for September were described last veening as fairly satisfactory by the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mr. C. J. B. Norwood. Exports to British and foreign ports were 3000 tons in excess of the figure for September last year. In opening the conference of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, said that business conditions showed a slight upward trend. The improvement in the trading position was definite, the surplus of exports in the last eight months having been £13,000,000. Since the early part of July some fifty additional undertakings have been set up in Britain by or with the assistance of foreign concerns and bare begun production, stated the President of the Board of Trade in the House of
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 28, 27 October 1932, Page 8
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