STILL BETTER TRADE
; £7,000,000 INCREASE IN RAW COTTON IMPORTS British trade is still improving-, according, to the Board of Trade return issued on Tuesday and the figures for January are distinctly better than those of January 1910, which was the record year. The chief figures are: — January imports £62,694,771 Increase over 1910 6,785,087 increase over 1909 9,194,407 January Exports £37,730,831 increase over 1910 2,927,716 increase over 1909 8,927,780 The activity in the cottom trade is shown by an increase of £6,865,393 in the value of raw cotton imported.
Two truancy cases came before Mr Hewett, S.M., yesterday at the Magistrate's Court, the Truant Officer (Mr C. Kirk), charging S. Cochrane, and W. R. Duncan with each failing to send his son to school as required by the law. The case against the former, who stated his son was not strong and was only absent when unwell, was dismissed whale the latter | was (fined. 2s and costs.
Jusit a little illness, Just a. little " pain ; Just an awful, racking- cough, Which g-oes and comes ag*ain. Just an age of suffering, That's the price you pay, Unless you get Woods' Peppermint Cure without delay.
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Grey River Argus, 15 April 1911, Page 6
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192STILL BETTER TRADE Grey River Argus, 15 April 1911, Page 6
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