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Finance —continued Post Office Savings-bank — New deposits Amount to credit of depositors £(m.) .. £(m.) .. 1933 1933 3 16-9 42-0 1936 19363 25-6 . 52-9 1939 1939 3 30-4 60-7 1946 1946 3 67-9 128-5 Trustee Savings-banks — New deposits Amount to credit of depositors £(m.) .. £(m.) .. 1933 1933 3 5-7 10-5 1936 1936 3 6-7 11-8 1939 1939 3 8-6 13-9 1946 1946 3 16-0 27-3 National Savings Accounts : Amount to credit £(m.) .. 1946 3 26-9 Mortgages registered Mortgages discharged .. .. .. Land transfer transactions £(m.) .. £(m.) .. £(m.) .. 1934 1933 1934 7-8 8-1 9-6 1936 1936 1936 16-2 17-6 15-6 1939 1939 1939 20-0 16-6 23-7 1946 1946 1946 22-5 23-3 38-4 Sales-tax receipts (ordinary revenue) Sales-tax receipts (war taxation) .. £(m.) .. £(m.) .. 1936 2-5 1939 3-6 1946 1946 4-5 10-6 Miscellaneous — Totalizator investments £(m.) .. 1933 3-3 1936 4-5 1939 7-8 1946 " 16-4 Marriages (rate per 1,000 of mean population) Births (rate per 1,000 of mean population) 1932 4 1935 4 6-81 16-17 1935 4 1935 4 8-23 16-17 1938 4 1938 4 10-09 17-93 1945 4 1945 4 10-06 23-22 Prices Index Numbers — Exports (1909-13 = 1000) Number 1932 4 892 1935 4 1102 1938 4 1367 1945 4 1857 Wholesale (1926-30= 1000) Number 1932 4 878 1935 4 936 1938 4 1036 1945 4 1584 Retail — Food groups (1926-30 = 1000) All groups (1926-30= 1000) .. .. Wartime price index (15th December, 1942 = 1000) Number Number Number 1933 4 1933 4 732 795 1935 4 1935 4 835 837 1938 4 1938 4 991 951 1942 4 1942 4 19461 0 1127 1109 1009 Wage-rates — Nominal: Adult males (1926-30 = 1000) Effective : Adult males (1926-30= 1000) Number Number 1933 4 1932 4 833 1031 1935 4 1935 4 858 1025 1938 4 1938 4 1081 1137 1945 4 1942 4 1381 1102 Share prices — Industrial (1938= 1000) .. .. .. All groups (1938= 1000) Number Number 1932 4 1932 4 667 769 1935 4 1935 4 1102 1112 1938 4 1938 4 1000 1000 1945 4 1945 4 1285 1346 1 Production year —approximately twelve months ended June. 2 Does not include factory processing of primary products. * As at end of March. 4 Calendar year. * Advance estimate. 8 Preliminary estimate. ' Not available. 8 As at last Monday in March. * Vehicles used by the " Armed Services " not licensed. 10 15th March.