BRIGHT SPOTS IN THE NEWS
At the rabbitskin sale held in Wellington yesterday winters were in keen demand at prices 6d to lid better than the September sale quotations, while low grades appreciated 2d to 4d.
The Christchurch City Council has made satisfactory arrangements for raising a loan of £70,000 in London to redeem debentures maturing there on October 31.
As a result of General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd., letting a contract, which will run into some hundreds of pounds, for the repainting of the whole of the outside of the firm’s factory at Petone, a number of unemployed painters in the Hutt Valley will obtain work for six or eight weeks.
Britain’s international trade may double itself in fifty years, Dr. H. Levinstein told the Imperial College of Science. He quoted figures showing that if the world raised its' trade to the’ British standard the world’s commerce would be multiplied sixfold. He also said that there was no over-production of food, as the greater part of the world’s population was underfed.
“The British motor industry is not only holding its own in the colonies but sales are mounting by leaps and bounds In many of the Dominions.” says Mr. S. G. K. Smalibone. of Oxford, England, director and secretary of Morris Motors Ltd.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 10
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