THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
BRITAIN’S DECLINING TRADE.
The British Chambers of Commerce have just issued, through their executive,. a report on the condition of Britain’s trade. It deals chiefly with <■ the decline in British industy and the increase in unemployment, and ityconcludes that the chief causes for these ominous “signs of the. times!" are abnormally high costs of production and “the unprotected state of the '.home market.” Due weight is, of course, attached to “the dislocation of business” Jthrough (political disturbances in Egypt India, and Chfna. But it is a remarkable fact that, while Britain still officially .professes faith in the doctrine of Free Imports, this representative body of British business i men has fastened upon the lack of protection for the British producer as one. of the chief causes for the industrial! and commercial depression now prevail;*iiL£ ftt Horns*
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1930, Page 4
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140THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1930, Page 4
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