19 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 34

Finance Public and Private

Bankers and the Financing of Trade .

DURING the past ten days two speeches have been delivered, the one by Mr. Frederick Hyde of the Midland Bank, to the London Bankers' Institute, and the other by Mr. Andrew Williamson to shareholders of the Scottish and Australian Bank, which seem to me, on one particular point, to be rather closely linked, although they were really dealing with entirely different subjects, Mr. Hyde was addressing the Bankers' Institute with regard to the general question of banking and the trade of the country at home, while Mr. Williamson touched upon certain aspects of the activities of Australia.