... -CCAL AND THE £l- Expectations that the coal industry will benefit from the suspension of the gold standard have been voice! by the President of the Miners’ Federation. In the natural course of events trade will be stimulated. Exporters will find their ...

... TOURISTS AND THE £l. British tourists on the Continent felt the most immediate effect of the suspension of the gold standard. Thev had the humiliating experience of seeing foreigners looking at the British £1 with a severely critical eye, and had to be ...

... money market was a closed book to most of them, and when people began to talk about the fall in the value of sterling, the gold standard, and the mobilisation of foreign securities, they were apt to think that these were mysteries which they could not possibly ...

... has wisely been the rule since the sudden and momentous decision of the National Government the week-end to suspend the gold standard, and we have up to now escaped the dire consequences feared a few weeks ago in the event of such a course being forced ...

... alternatives—the tariff as a means both of assisting the balance of trade and of raising revenue, or the abandonment of the gold standard, with the consequent reorganisation of central bank- ine. both national and international. He recalls Mr Henderson’s admission ...

... market was a closed book to most of them, and when people began to talk •about the fall in the value of sterling, the gold standard, and the mobilisation of foreign securities, they were apt to think that these were mysteries which they could not possibly ...

... aggregate prize are as fol- Gouser; 2, Mr W. Russell; , >t)t Mr T. Thorburn. ipo seems to have been con- Hopping of the gold standard fp least that may the expaucity of the attendance ...

... 1931 and will give the Government very wide powers to deal situation which may arise What it may asked is the gold standard? The gold standard explained by authority simply means that by law the British £ is deemed be worth certain quantity of gold Subject ...

... three days they had seen it stated in the .newspapers that this was a chance for industry. It might be. Going off the gold standard and reducmg the value of the £1 must have some effect, and one was to reduce the value of exports to foreign markets by ...

... gilt-edged opening reductions the sterling occurred world markets still readjusting themselves the situation created of the gold standard lough a more subdued key between the advocates Election those take view still proceeds opinion is still generally held ...

... cheoue he will receive will be over £soo— very pleasing addition that makes him bless the dav when said goodbye” to the gold standard. Petrol from Coal- The present low price at which petrol mav be imported from abroad is rather chilling circumstance for ...

... THE lALKIkK HERALD, WEDNESDAY suspension of the gold standard will doubtless be ouoted as part of the “plot.” More than carefully coined phrases arc needed, however, w r hen an abyss looms perilously in front. CASUAL COMMENTS. BY “ARGUS If there is one ...