IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS
(REUTERS TELEGRAM.)
LONDON, 19th June. ' In the House of Commons, Mr. S. Webb, introducing the Board of Trade Estimates, said that owing to the development of tha Imperial Shipping Committee it had been decided to pay the hitherto unpaid chairman, Sir Harold Mackinder, £2000 a year. Trade conditions were considerably more promising than last year. There had been a wonderful increase in imports, mainly o)' the principal raw materials on which British commerce depended. The exports also had increased. Coal and steel production in Britain had reached the pre-war figures.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7
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93IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7
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