12 NOVEMBER 1927, page 55

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PRINCIPLE OF CO-OPERATION. Those industries during the post-War period have been hit in many ways. Foreign competition, labour troubles at home and, in some cases, imperfect......

A Good Banking Report.

Even after all alloWance is made for the absorption which took place towards the end of last year of the -Royal Bank of Australia, the annual Report of the English, Scottish and......

Financial -notes*

INTERESTING MAREETS. AFTER a'brief reaction - , to which I referred a week ago in the cOlumns, the Stock Markets during the past week have shown a more cheerful tendency with......

The Empire's Jijnior Partner. By-c. A. Wilson. (williams...

Auckland : Wilsqn Bros. Os.) Mr. Wilion is - a New Zealander born and bred; and enthusiastic for his native islands. That is good enough reason for commending his book to other......

A Library List

BIOGRAPHY :-Sir James Reckitt : A Memoir. By Major Desmond Chapinan-Thiston. (Faber and Gwyer. • 21s.) • McClure of Mill Hill. By His Daughter. (Hodder and SfOughton: • 10S.......

Vickers-armstrong Agreement.

Unquestionably the outstanding feature in the industrial world during the past week has been. the announcement of the proposed agreement between Vickers - and Armstrongs, the......

Answers To Jane Austen's Novels Questions

1. (1) Firet Intpres dons ; (2) 1796-1797 ; (3) 1813. 2. Sense and Sensibility.-3. (a) Gloucestershire, Gen. Taney ; (b) Somerset, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ; (c) Derbyshire, Mr.......

Rally In Skipping.

Of the concreteinstinces which Might be effedin evidence, certainly, not of a boom, but of a moderate improvement in ■ The 'weekly attieles 'on Finance-Piiblid and Private, -......

Shell Life. By Edward Step, F.l.s. (warne. 7s. 6d) —rt

should be enough, perhaps, simply to record the fact that Professor Step has written a book about British shell-fish, or molluscs—whichever you like to call them : both terms......