TRADE AS IT WAS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 95, 19 October 1931, Page 10

TRADE AS IT WAS

Advices-received by the. British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr. L. A. Paish,' from the Overseas Trade Department for, the period August to September show what British trade . was like just jjrior to England going off the gold standard. ■ There were decreases m coal export from Hartlepool and Sundeiiand, but an ord*for 50,000 tons of coal obtained by Cardiff -for 10 Brazilian railways. ; Contracts secured for British overseas dominions and foreign countries included transformers for the city of Johannesburg -jn-fnee of very keen competition from Germany, Austria, and Sweden; turbo alternators and condensing plant for Pretoria; an order for 1500 kilos of single carpet yarn for Jugo-Slavia, in face ot strong Dutch and Czecho-Stovakian competition; stationery and litho-plates for Egypt; ninety' guns for the Portuguese navy, to cost £796,000; steel-plant equipment for: Pretoria, to cost £150,000; five locomotives for1 Gold Coast railways;- ---■ four- boilers and' accessories for Victoria 1 Falls power station, South. Africa—value of contract £450,000; excavators, and diesel, steam, and electrically driven appliances for the Soviet Government of Russia-between £90,000 and £100,000; two largo diesel engines for Saskatchewan, Canada; wireless contract for Rumanian army; and. extensive furnishing and decoration contracts ' for restaurants and clubs at Monte Carlo. A coalpulveriser plant for a Japanese cargo and passenger ship has been contracted for by a;firra at Gateshead-on-Tyne.