BRITAIN’S TRADE
COLOS’SAL FIGURE. NO EXCUSE FOR PESSIMISAI. (By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.') Received January 20, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 19. Tho Economist computes that tho profits of 1490 British joint stocic companies for three months averaged 12 per cent, an increaso of 50 per cent over 1922. The Daily Express declares that there is no excuse for pessimism hero or abroad describing as “finished” tho nation whose trade lias reached tho colossal figure of two billions of pounds annually.—Sydney Sun cablo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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