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1 Production year— approximately twelve months ended June. 8 Does not include factory processing of primary products. 3 As at end of March. 4 Calendar year. 6 Based on advance estimates and subject to considerable alteration, particularly in the case of "factory production." 6 Preliminary estimate. 7 Not available. 8 As at last Monday in March. 9 15 th June. 10 Average of production years 1936-37 ,1937-38, and 1938-39. 11 In terms of purchasing power on basis of wartime price index linked to retail prices index series.

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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 1936 3 25-6 52-9 1939 1939 3 30-4 60-7 1947 1947 3 72-4 141-2 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 1947 1947 3 17-3 30-5 National Savings Accounts : Amount to credit £(m.) .. 1947 3 31-6 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 1947 1947 1947 30-9 25-9 45-0 Sales-tax receipts (total revenue) £(m.) .. 1936 2-5 1939 3-6 1947 15-5 Miscellaneous — Totalizator investments £(m.) .. 1933 3-3 1936 4-5 1939 7-8 1947 22-1 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 1946 4 1946 4 12-3! 25-2 Prices Index Numbers — Exports (1909-13 = 1000) Index No. 1932 4 892 1935 4 1102 1938 4 1367 1946 4 1968 Wholesale (1926-30 = 1000) Index No. 1932 4 878 -1935 4 936 1938 4 1036 1946 4 1584 Retail (with wartime price index linked on) — Food groups (1926-30 = 1000) All groups (1926-30 = 1000) Wartime price index (15th December, 1942 = 1000) Index No. Index No. Index No. 1933 4 1933 4 732 795 1935 4 1935 4 835 837 1938 4 1938 4 991 951 1946 4 19479 7 1138 1027 Wage-rates — Nominal: Adult males (1926-30 = 1000) Effective : Adult males (1926-30 = 1000) Index No. Index No. 1933 4 1932 4 833 1031 1935 4 1935 4 858 1025 1938 4 1938 4 1081 1137 1946 4 1946 4 1434 12601 i Share prices — Industrial (1938 = 1000) Finance, &e. (1938 = 1000) All groups (1938 = 1000) .. .. .. Index No. Index No. Index No. 1932 4 1932 4 1932 4 667 852 769 1935 4 1935 4 1935 4 1102 1120 1112 1938 4 1938 4 1938 4 1000 1000 1000 1946 4 1946 4 1946 4 1372 1601 1486