BRITAIN’S PAY ENVELOPE
<■ Probably about £1,800.000,000 per i annum of the aggregate income o± ?■/ England went ;in consumption of foo , and as this Consumers Bill also prosy ides >f or clothing and materials con- ' nected with clothing, also with fuel, - and it may be, certain other commodi- | ties, it may,'be;assumed that much U more than one-half of the total infccome of the British people is * lTe £}* Blfor indirectly affected,” said Mr 1 - Ipliam Grahaid, M.F., president of the li Board of Trade, in the Commons, life' That income has been usually pu KUni recent years at a round figure o Rg£4i0OOJ)OO,OOO, but it has been calculi lated thiat, mainly because oi the proR&uiShndustrial depression of the past income may have fallen by or to a figure approximately £3,600,000,-
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3304, 2 June 1931, Page 8
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