HIGH VOLUME OF TRADE
GENERAL INCREASE IN BR1TAIN. British Wireless. Rugby, April 28. The Board of Trade has now calculated the volume of overseas trade in the first quarter of the year, compared with' the corresponding periods of 1936 and 1935, by a revaluation of the trade of all three periods at the average ' values of the whole of 1935. Comparing the first quarter of this year with the first quarter of last year, the exports of United Kingdom goods incr.eased in volume by 10 per cent., reexports declined by 4.5 per cent. and imports increased by 2.5 per cent. Tliere was a record increase in retail trade in March. The total daily saies were 15.2 per cent. higher than in March, . 1936. Stocks were 3.7 per cent. higher and cmployment was , 3.1 per cent. greater.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1937, Page 18 (Supplement)
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