The steady in the level of general prosperity in Great Britain is apparent not merely from the increased earnings of commercial firms, but from many other aspects of production and consumption, In the former category two representative firms may be selected from those which published reports of their year's trading ji before Christmas. A well-known firm of British engineers showed a year of steady trading and of considerable development in its export business, while a firm of manufacturers of insulating material, asbestos goods, etc. increased its net trading profit from £1333.000 to the record figure of £1,362,000 for the year ended September 30. The output of British motor vehicles has increased by 13 per cent. in recent months, land between September and October this year car sales increased over 17 per cent. But perhaps the most significant of general production figures are those relating to the output of gas in the British Isles. They show an increase of 4,674,000,000 cubic feet for the lest twelve months, and the increase since the Great War is over 53 per cent. Industry is taking more gas, and this points not only to the efficiency of this high-grade fuel for manufacturing pur-pases, but to greater activity in trade of all Kinds. As a general index of economic wellbeing in Great Britain it is customary to accept ures for the output of beer. The latest show that the October beer production nited Kingdom was the best for that month since 1930, and the ten months' total, from January to October, shows a rise of more han two per cent. over the output in the corresponding period of last year,
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