This has resulted in the present third loot at some items of Government spending. which. even with cuts. has gone above Mr. Callaghan's estimated annual rate of rise of 4} per cent, at constant prices, between 1903 and 1970. Even now, the total Increase In public spending might

get a five per cent pay increase from July 1 when the period of "severe restraint ends. But it will be back dated to January 2. The money due will be paid in instalments.

But in the later months the July measures began to take effect and business in some sections of the group declined. Nevertheless. Mr. H. J. Barlow expects the audited results to compare favourably with those of 1965 since demand for Barlow's bright drawn steel and bright bolts a

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" A number of them now seem to be suffering from increasing inflationarY pressures and balance of payments problemslike those which Britain has been faced within recent times. "It could well be that if British firms stepped up their programmes of capital investment and modernisa

Mr. Catherwood went on: "The more we put the screws on by boosting trade with Efta the more the others will want us to Join the Common Market." Mr. Catherwood spoke of the magnificent export figures " a 61 per cent rise to Zillm in the last U months—achieved by the " tough selli

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LONG-TERM redevelopment which is proposed for Stafford town centre is likely to cost about t 10,000,000. The figure. which he described as only " a very broad sketch.' was announced for the first time by the Borough Treasurer, Mr. W. Babb, at a meeting yesterday of the Developme