BETTER TIMES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 8, 20 December 1933, Page 9

BETTER TIMES

MORE MEN AT WORK Evidences of Improvement STRIKING BRITISH FIGURES British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, December 18. Speaking at Stoke, Sir John Simon expressed the belief that it would be possible by Christmas to say that in the past 12 months work was found for an additional 800,000, and that at the end of the first half of the present financial year Britain’s financial position was better by £42,000,000 than at the corresponding date of last year.

Sir Samuel Hoare stated in the House of Commons that the value of imports to India from the United Kingdom was nearly £3,000,000 greater in the year ended March, 1933, than the previous year. Opening tho Northern Ireland Parliament the Governor, the Duke of Abercorn, said that the number of unemployed registering for work during tho present year had fallen by onefifth, the improvement being particularly marked in the building and linen trades. The increase in world trade is shown by figures in a League of Nations statistical bulletin. The total exports during October were 16.3 per cent above these of April, imports increased by 8.3 per cent, while there was a continuous improvement in world trade, The value of the October exports was 37 per cent of the 1929 average, and that of the imports only 36 per cent. An order for 1,000,000 boxes of tin plates han been received from Canada by tho Richard Thomas group of companies in South Wales. The order will give employment in the tin plate trade alone to. 10,000 men for ten weeks. ,N.Z. - AUSTRALIAN TREATY. CANBERRA, December 19. Following the trade treaty with New Zealand the Commonwealth Government foresees a great opportunity for furthering trade relationships with tho Dominion based on the official figures of exports and imports. Australia desires the removal of the New Zealand embargo on green vegetables and citrus fruits. It is hoped that a visit by a trade commissioner to New Zealand vrill pave the way in this direction, and also establish a better understanding in trade affairs generally.