BRITISH PROSPERITY
All Spendtng Records Broken EpGBY, Aug. 7. Tho Bank of England retums on active note circrdation show that all records for spending wpre broken over the August bank holiday. Ourrfency aotea in circulatipn. on Wednesday amounted to £503,877,456, the highest figure ever recorded in Britaiu and £5,538,746 more than the preyious week. A iarge proportiou of the increase •ia due to .the greater number of people iu eihployment ahd to the holiday season. Meanwhile the usual holiday slackness on the Stock Exchange is not apparent this year and business remains persistently active and with a firm tone, particulariy in the home industriai section.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 173, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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