29 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 33

A BANKING RETIREMENT.

After some forty:two years of active service, Mr. Catesby Paget, the Principal of the ii ce iscount Office at the Bank of England, is retiring at the end of this week, his place being taken by Mr. K: O. Peppiatt, while Mr. A. C. Bull will become Deputy Principal. Mr. Paget has been long and favourably

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known the London Money Market, and many of his friends will be wishing him a long period of pleasant retirement. He has been chief of the Discount Office during a period of excepr

tional strain represented by the War years and those that immediately followed.

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