CANADIAN BUSINESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19991, 15 September 1936, Page 10

CANADIAN BUSINESS.

STEADY GAINS SHOWN. i I HIGHEST POINT BINCE 1833. •OTTAWA, August 12. The year lias been marked in Canadl : by an unspectacular but consistent improvement in 'business conditions, in trade and in government revenues. Thus the economic index computed by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics on •adjusted comparisons involving primary :actors in business showed in the i third week of July a gain of 1 per cent i over the preceding week, a gain of 10 i per cent over the corresponding week j of last year, and the highest point reI corded since January of 1933. | Business operations in Canada for j June, on tiie index of physical volume, i showed a gain of 11.3 per cent over j June of 1935. Wholesale prices ad- | vanned from 71.4 to 72.3. and comj moil stock prices from 93.8 to 113-8 . Most items in manufacturing production were at a higher level. Newsprint production at 270.000 lons . showed a gain of 16 per cent. There ! were large increases in the export of Planks and boards, in tlie manufacture of foodstuffs, in the production of automobiles, in the output of steel ami iron, in the output of electrical power ami imports of crude petroleum.