Board of Economic Enquiry Punjab. Monthly Survey of Economic Conditions in the Punjab. August 1945

Page 1 3 a a 6 17 19 20 GENERAL SUMMARY Agriculture.—Rainfall was general all over the province in the month of August 1945 but was below the normal for the month in the hills the central districts and south-we-st Punjab. [...] CONDITIONS in the Province the number of rainy days and the amount of rainfall during the month of August : Recording station. [...] The last week of the month brought some cheering news to the market in the shape of the sudden termination of the Lend-Lease aid by U.S. [...] The following table gives the highest and lowest weekly quotations of the shares which appeared most frequently on the Punjab Share Market during the month of August 1945."11 Highest and Lowest Quotations for Certain Shares in the Punjab Stock Exchange during the Month of August 1945. [...] As shown last month by taking the wheat price in the first fortnight of January as 100 the index before the war for the month of July stood at 83 and that for August at 86.