GOOD TRADE FIGURES.
Meanwhile the Trade Returns for the month of September were fairly encouraging, imports showing a considerable increase, and while the itdvance in exports was quite moderate it would probably have been greater, but for the visible con- traction in our trade with Italy, where our exports of coal are suffering a very substantial reduction. For the first nine months of the year, however, a good feature of the . Returns is the increase of about £23,000,000 in the value of (Continued on page 647.)
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(Continued from page 646.) our exports, while compared with the same period of 1933 the expansion in exports was nearly £47,000,000. The fore- going mention of reduced exports of coal, however, must serve as a reminder of the unsatisfactory position of the coal industry in this country, and while in times such as the present a coal atrike is something almost unthinkable, it would not. be sur- Prising if there were to be some anxious moments before the Present dispute has been straightened out.
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