ENGLAND’S INCREASING TRADE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 21

ENGLAND’S INCREASING TRADE.

With one so itary exception the monthly Board of Trade Returns ever since the beginning of the year have shown a gratifying and, in some instances, a most remarkable increase, and when the figures for 1906 are made up at the end of the present month they will show a record trade of which England may feel justly proud. It is not alone this country that has been forging ahead. The distant possessions of the Crown, save and. except South Africa—which has been in a state of political unrest, and cannot be expected to settle down until the Transvaal elections are over —have all being doing well. Canada and Australia were never in a more prosperous condition than they are to-day, and next year, when the Colonia Conference takes place, London is expected to be full of wealthy Colonists from all parts of the Empire. This should be good news for English, Irish, and Scott: sh hotel keepers, for cur visitors from abroad, as a rule, make a point of seeing all the “beauty spots’.’ in the kingdom before returning to their colonial homes, and there wi 1 be p'enty of entertaining. Meanwhi’e it is satisfactory to note that an additional £3j367»” 000 has been put on to our exports, and a further £2,602,000 on to our imports during the past month, making an increase of nearly £6,000,000 in our oversea trade.—“ London L.V. Gazette.”