BRITISH TRADE
IN HAPPY POSITION. K EGAINING LEADERSHIP. [ British Officia' Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 12. The president of the Board of Trade (Hon. W. Runciman) said that Britain was in the happy position of regaining bit by bit her old position of the great major trade of the world. ?\ comparison of the figures for the first half of the past three years showed in Hie vast majority of cases that the United Kingdom’s share of imports into foreign countries had either been steady or had increased, and in some cases the increases had been very Bv contrast with the summer of 1931, Britain had now attained a position of being the strongest financial country in the world with the best ■redit. She. had boon able to place her national finances upon a foundation almost as secure as before the war. The Government wore now going to do what they could for the British textile industry, and after that would turn ‘heir attention to steel. Although there was now a long list >f import duties in force in Britain, 'ho cost of living remained very much whore, it was in 1931, nn achievement without parallel in the history of modern industrial countries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 243, 14 October 1933, Page 9
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