ENGLAND'S FAILURES.
The record of tho year's failures to the reverse of, favourable, says St. James's Budget. The total number of failures n'pfears, ib In true, nb 10,231, «s againsb 0,240 in tliQ yenr 1004 ) bubtiny comfort we may derive from thab fact Is more than nullified Jiy the Increase in the number recorded for, the wholesale trade— 9l6, ns mgainsb 883, Thus, though tho aggregate of failures Is lew, the actual loss, without a doubt, hns been' greater. In this con* neotlon, it may be noted, that tho total for 1904, £9,371,780, showed nn ndvnnc* of Upwards of £2,000,000 on thab of 1003. An regards' tho retail trade* it is of intor« <jsfc to remdrfe thrtfc tho gweorir nnd provlslon dealers contribute tho greatest num. ber of failures, with a total of 1114, while builders nnd nrrhlleets, 600 1 farmers, 622) publictms, 447 p nnd bakers, 289, figure high up* on the list. Nob a ninglo banker, uWcounb ,or, bill broker, or «ugnr refiner has boon compelled to appeal to Till i,orodlto»«
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 10
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173ENGLAND'S FAILURES. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 10
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