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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 4

An interesting article appeared in The Weekly Northern Whig and Belfast Post. It compared Ulster’s external trade with that of New Zealand and other countries and was based on an address delivered by Mr. H. M. Pollock, Minister of Finance, to the Belfast Rotary Club. Illustrating how the province of Northern Ireland had improved in wealth, progress and prosperity, Mr. Pollock gave an expert’s estimate of Ulster’s gross annual income as £62,000,000 to £65,000,000, adding the comment that it was nonsense to talk, as some people did, of Northern Ireland being on the verge of bankruptcy. As a reply to critics who avow Northern Ireland to be too small for selfgovernment, the Minister pointed out that in 1932, the latest year for which reliable figures were available, the province’s external trade amount to £89,000,000, compared with New Zealand’s £23,000,000, the Irish Free State’s £67,000,000, Norway’s £64,000,000, Austria’s £71,000,000 and Portugal’s £24,000,000. With next Monday a holiday there should be a keen demand for new frocks, coats, swagger suits and new hats at Scanlan’s Melbourne Comer. Stocks are up-to-date and prices are extremely reasonable. The latest hats are particularly attractive. Other accessories such as hosiery, gloves, tennis socks and frocks fire in good supply.*