§ 13. Mr. G. MACDONALDasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the reason for the decrease in the sale of the Nautical Almanac from 20,758 in 1928 to 13,199 in 1931?
Lord STANLEYThe 1928 figures were abnormally high as a result of the issue that year of the Abridged Edition of the Nautical Almanac for 1929 in a revised and more popular form. The effect of this persisted to some extent in 1929, but otherwise the general depression in shipping for the last five years has had an increasingly adverse effect on the sales of the: Nautical Almanac.