INCREASED RETAIL TRADE SALES
I EMPLOYjiENT HIGHER (British OCloial Wireless) RUDDY, 11th March. The /{deal 4 ’ Value of retail trade sales reported for Hie veur ended Jauuarv. 1926. exceeded £2BO 000.000, as compared with rather loss than £270,000,000 for the previous 12 months. .Sales have shown a marked upward tendency during the past three years and the increase of" 6.5 per cent, last year over its predecessors affected each of the two main divisions of merchandise and was shared bv all the five areas. Employment in trade averaged nearly 3 per cent, higher last year, following a steady improvement of some 3 per cent, throughout 1934-35. The average of wholesale prices in February was practically (lie same as in January, but showed an increase, of 4.2 per cent, as compared with February, 1935.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 13 March 1936, Page 3
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