BRITISH TRADE GOOD.
EXPORTS INCREASING. ] REMARKABLE FIGURES. London, January 9. In an article in the London Daily Mail Sir Leo Chiozza Money, M.P., states that the exports of British produce last year amounted to £385,000,000. In the boom year, 1913, they were valued at £525,000,000. He adds that in 1914 exports, despite the loss of £54,000,000 worth of normal exports to enemy countries, were greater than in 1909. In the fifth month of the war the exports were £26,000,000, and in the seventeenth month £34,000,000.. Prices have certainly risen, but the increased export values balance the increased import values. It is remarkable to note that the personnel of the army and navy rose from 1,500,000 in December, 1914, to 3,000,000 in December, 1915, yet despite the withdrawal of 1,500,000 able-bodied men from trade and industry, exports rose 30 per ccat. The explanation is probably to be found in the fact that in peace time many able-bodied men are engaged in unproductive, iwork, i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 8
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