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Going Off the Gold Standard

... Going Off the Gold Standard. A series of circumstances has compelled Britain to come off the gold standard. ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SOUTH AFRICA AND GOLD STANDARD

... SOUTH AFRICA AND GOLD STANDARD. Johannesburg. Tuesday. The Stock remains closed to-day as the committee de. cided to &dings before Snowing Makin Govern=amprogoaes to continue an or to etsellog. It is that the chairmen ot the stock ts conferrft with Kr ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE announcement about the gold standard in yesterday morning’s papers left the country blandly undisturbed. ..

... adherence to the gold standard, and that the Government ought to have departed from it straight away instead of taking the trouble to balance the Budget. But that, as it happens, made all the difference. A departure from the gold standard with an unbalanced ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRITISH BUDGET

... of gold by the Bank England. The Bill itself can be explained in a very few words. Under the Gold Standard Act, 192.5. which brought Britain on the gold standard after it had been suspended from about the beginning of the war—under this Act the Bank of ...

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

... If America and France could not have been induced to appreciate, beforehand, the severe lesson which our going off the gold standard will leach them, that they could not continue to demand reparations and Governmental commodities and at the same time prevent ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COST OF LIVING

... into being to maintain the gold standard. Within a fortnight they were proposing to destroy the very fabric they were designed to build. The Opposition could not refuse second reading to the Bill. We wore now off the gold standard and it djd not appear to ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AN ALDERMAN’S VIEW

... other galleries.” EXPORT TRADE HOPES. EFFECT OF SUSPENSION OF GOLD STANDARD ON STEEL INDUSTRY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MIDDLESBROUGH, Monday, The effect of the suspension of tho gold standard upon the steel industry was the principal topic of conversation ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PET OPTIMISM IN

... IN PROVINCES. HULL HOLD-UP. STREET DEALERS “MOVED ON.” Provincial centres in England, on the whole, took the news the gold standard suspension calmly, and in commercial and industrial circles, note of quiet optimisu predominated. Business in all the leading ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GOLD SNOWDEN’S REASSURING STATEMENT

... months operatior) of part of the Gold Standard l9-- rare visitor was the Prince of . jdes, and the Peers’ Gallery' and the galleries were thronged.' Snowden said : ..Ous is Bill for the temporary amendment the Gold Standard Act of 1925. The e ndment takes ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FILLIP TO EXPORTS

... that it was quite likely that the first effect of going off the gold standard would to give temporary fillip certain export trades. But it was also certain that if remained off the gold standard the purchasing power of the pound would be reduced, and the ...

Sweeping the Home Market

... on the gold standard. On the contrary, there is widespread feeling among Conservative Members that the outcome of the present suspension gold payments by the Bank of England may an agreement with most commercial countries off the gold standard permanently ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RENEWED FIGHTING

... CTO Chinese police preparatory to restoring Chinese control in the city. BILL TO AMEND GOLD STANDARD ACT. Freeing Bank of England from Liability. The Gold Standard (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the House Commons yesterday by the Chancellor of the ...