MORE SPENDING
PROSPEROUS BRITAIN. I ACTIVE NOTE CIRCULATION. I ! 'HIGHEST EVER KNOWN. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 7. The Bank of England returns on active note circulation show that all records for spending were broken over the August Bank Holiday. Currency notes in circulation on Wednesday amounted to £503,877,456 —the highest figure ever recorded in Britain, and £5,538,746 more than in the previous week. A large proportion of the increase was due to the greater number of people in employment and to the holiday season. The usual holiday slackness on the London Stock Exchange was not apparent this year and business remains persistently active and with* the tone Arm, particularly in bhe home industrial section.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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114MORE SPENDING Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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