29 OCTOBER 1932, Page 37

PLEASANT RELATIONS.

The relations of banker and customer arc personal for, though it may be a Joint Stock Bank on one side and a Limited Liability Company on the other, the meeting of their respective representatives provides the human contact. Banker and customer are debtor and creditor to one another in many ways other than the monetary one, although a customer who declared to his banker that he owed him more than he could ever repay, had he expressed his 'gratitude to him in other words, would not have frightened him so much. And in spite of the inevitable exceptions (the banker who is described as " a very nasty piece of work " and the customer " who has been insufficiently spanked in the days of his youth "), I confidently assert that their relations with one another continue to be of a character as friendly as they are