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The Shetland Times, “The O ¥ock”

... bemng the operation of sub-section 2 of section 1 of the Gold Standard Act of 1925, which requires the Bank to sell gold at » fixed price” —in other words, the country bad gone off the gold standard Though such a step was not enrely unlooked for by eeunomists ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1931
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

J. S. SMITH & SONS,

... CO. LTD.. CLASOOD 124 HIGH STREET, ARBROA' GOVERNMENT AND GOLD STANDARD. It was announced on Monday that the Cabinet had decided to suspend the opera- tion of that section of the Gold Standard Act which requires the Bank of England to sell gold at a fixed ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1931
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TARIFFS NEXT

... TARIFFS NEXT. The substantial majority by which: the House of Commons assented to the emergency measure suspending thg gold standard is a demonstration to the world that this country is ready to respond to the appeal of its leaders and to remain cool and ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1931
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRADE WILL BENEFIT

... TRADE WILL BENEFIT. Gold Standard Not a Necessity. BUSINESS MEN'S VIEWS. The Government's decision to suspend the gold standard was much discussed in. industrial and commercial circles yesterday, and many conferences of executives of trade organisations ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 875 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SNAPSHOTS FROM ABROAD

... by the Austrian Government to state that no moratorium has been declared in Austria. PROVISIONS OF GOLD STANDARD BILL A SHORT MEASURE. The Gold Standard (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE PROGRESS OF THE “CRISIS”

... external markets because Britain has gone off the gold standard. The reasons for this belief are not very substantial, and when it is expanded into a belief that since we have gone off the gold standard the balance of our external trade will look after ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SAME EFFECT AS TARIFF

... effect of the departure from the gold standard, Mr Scott said that British manufacturers would have to pay more for raw materials from abroad, whfch would affect wages in time While the departure from the gold standard would have one or two effects which ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 692 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CRISIS

... protagonists of the gold standard. But they interpret it in a form peculiar to themselves. They possess three-quarters of the Courier anb Hbverttser DUNDEE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931. world's gold, but they do not defend the gold standard. They merely defend ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IRISH BANK RATE

... returned too quickly Io tho gold standard , and so fan : as tho linen trade is concerned it- hus not been so prosperous since tho war as when the £ 1 sterling was worth only about , four dollars . As soon as tho gold standard was adopted Continental linen ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 640 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHANCE FOR FRF . F , STATE

... FRF . F , STATE Mr Cosgrave and Gold Standard Suspension Mr Cosgrave . President of the Executive of the Irish l- ' ree ^ tatc , speaking at Limerick on Saturday night , referred to tho suspension of tho gold standard by Great Britain . It was ihe realisation ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 10 | Tags: none