MORE THRIFT IN BRITAIN
SAVINGS DEPOSITS GROW A £2,000,000 INCREASE British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Friday. The Postmaster-General, Sir 'William Mitchell-Thomson, speaking in the House of Commons on the vote for his department, said the Government securities held by savings bank investors had increased during the year by over £ 6,000,000 to £201,000,000. , . The amount of savings hank deposits had increased nearly £2,000,000 to a total of over £284,008,000. He mentioned that wireless telephony and broadcasting experiments with the outlying parts of the Empire were still in progress, and said the number of wireless licence-holdeis in Britain had increased 207,000, or over 9 per cent, during last year.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 9
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