BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
BRITAIN’S IMPROVED POSITION.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rcc. 5.5 p.m.) 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 twelve months work had been found for an additional 900,000. 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 last year.
WORLD TRADE
INCREASE RECORDED.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rcc. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, December 18. An increase in world trade is shown by figures in the League of Nations Statistical Bulletin. The total exports during October were 16.3 per cent, above those of April and imports increased by 9.3 per cent. While there is a continuous improvement in world trade, the value of October exports was 37 per cent, of the 1929 average and that of imports only 36 per cent.
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Southland Times, Issue 22202, 20 December 1933, Page 7
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