TRADE BALANCE.
AUSTRALIA’S IMPROVEMENT. FAVOURABLE MARC) IN. Received May 3, 8.5 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The returns of the oversea trade of the Commonwealth for the nine months ended March 31 disclosed a favourable balance of £10,976,000 (sterling). For the nine months ol the present fiscal year the favourable commodity balance was £5,971,000 (sterling), as compared with £3,780,000 for the corresponding period of the previous year. BRITISH RETAIL TRADE. INCREASE IN SALES. (British Official A\ ireless.) KUO BY, May 1. The money value of retail trade sales in March, 1935, was only 0.(5 per cent, higher than in March, 1934, the later tail of Easter this year delaying pre-holiday business expansion. , For the two months ol l'ebruary and March sales exceeded those in the corresponding period of last year b} 2.5 per cent. Employment at the end of March was 1.6 per cent, greater than a year ago.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 131, 3 May 1935, Page 7
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148TRADE BALANCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 131, 3 May 1935, Page 7
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