... cent., but the last dividend on the El deferred shares was 5 per cent. for lON. That was just prior to our eturn to the gold standard. If we are to see more activity In liome industries, Imperial Chemical Industries should certalply be MlOng ...

... normal all sorts of complications will occur in one direc- tion and another. For instance, South Africa is remaining on the gold standard, and, therefore, there is a premium on the qSouth African pound as compared with the British pound. The United Tobacco ...

... England, that it has become necessary to suspend, for the time being, the operation of Sub-Section (2) of Section 1 of the Gold Standard Act of 1925, which requires the Bank to sell gold at a fixed price. A Bill for this purpose will be introduced immediately ...

... STEADINESS & CONFIDENCE. Parliament yesterday passed in all its stages the Bill for the temporary suspension of the Gold Standard, and the measure last night received the Royal Assent by Commission in the House of Lords. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

... patient must use has own common sense and test their opinions by events. Meanwhile the effect of the abandonment of the gold standard by Great Britain Is to give our manufacturers a bonus in competition with their rivals both here and abroad. Let them make ...

... BENEFIT. Higher Prices For Our Goods. FEWER IMPORTS By Our City Editor. BROADLY speaking the immediate effects gold standard decision yesterday were a dealine ,in. the vahie poMid abroad and a r' prices of the chief and raw materials. True, dealings in ...

... U.S. CONGRATULATIONS. The suspension of the gold standard by Great Britain is generally regarded in a favourable light by the American newspapers. The New York News congratulates Great Britain on having done the right thing promptly, with a solid ...

... the old men and the old ways, and came out into the open to ask Britain to wake up. He declared that in going off the gold standard the Government had stumbled by accident upon somethinr , which all along the New Party had ad vocated by plan. Whilst ...

... and was due partly to an attempt to meet the impossible Reparation obligations and partly to attempt to maintain the gold standard. The sooner we and other countries make up our minds that' all these hope' less and suicidal efforts to make Reparation ...

... meeting, which took place yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Friswell gave an address and answered several questions. IGNORANCE OF GOLD STANDARD. A 17-year-old youth, named Allen, was remanded at Leicester today, charged with stealing a sovereign. A friend of Allen's ...

... BUDGET, AND THE INTERNAL POSITION OF THE COUNTRY IS SOUND. This position must be maintained. It is one thing to go off the gold standard with an unbalanced Budget and uncontrolled inflation; it is quite another thing to take this measure, not because of internal ...

... anything like that price. The quotation is simply based on the d. .ar value of sterling. America, which is the leading gold standard country, is bound to pay approximately 20.67 dollars for every ounce of gold. Yesterday the exchange value of the dollar ...