CANADIAN CONDITIONS
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT SHOWN. OTTAWA. Economic conditions in Canada were generally improved in February over the first month of the year. Gains in the price of common stocks and of bonds were encouraging. Wholesale prices remained firm while the deposit liabilities of the banks reached a new high. The business index registered a minor decline from January but exports showed an extension of the improvement which began in the first' month of the yea)-. Compared with February last year, the preliminary index of the physical volume of business is on the uptrend, showing a gain of nearly five per cent. Notable advances have- been recorded in copper exports, cheese production, crude rubber im • ports, wool imports. in the lumber trade, petroleum imports and contracts awarded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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126CANADIAN CONDITIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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