16 FEBRUARY 1929, page 36

• The Trade View.

• Given the imposition of the present Bank Rate for "a Comparatively short period, there is no reason whatever for apprehending any undue ill-effects on the trade of the country......

State Aided Electricity, Quite A Feature Of The Meetings Of

gas companies is the amount of really useful and interesting information appealing to a much wider circle than those represented by the share- holders present. This -was......

Financial Notes

A.GENERAL RBACTION, IT is sonic time since the Stock Markets experienced so general a fall in securities as that which has occurred during the past week. The cause of the......

Wa.ndsworth, Wimbledon And Epsom Gas.

The Chairman of the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District • Gas Company was also able to place before the shareholders at the recent meeting a cheerful story with regard to......

The Banker's Responsibility.

Again, and in view of the nonsense which has been talked in some quarters with regard to the monetary authorities, whether here or in the United States, having no right to......

Effects On Market.

The first effect of the higher Bank Rate, as I have already said, has been to occasion a decided throw-back in the prices of securities. On this market the decline has been.......

Interesting Banking Appointment.

Sebttish Banking circles will be the gainers while London EinIceriwill certainly be the losers.by the impending departure of Mr. William. Whyte, the - nuiriager of the London......

Prosperous Gas Industry.

It would be difficult to fmd a more striking example of an industry triumphing over threatened competition than that of the , great gas companies of the country which,......

- A Good Start.

I am glad to note that the Anglo-French Banking Corp. oration shows from its first balance sheet, which has just been published, that a very good start has been made. The......

A Period Of Hesitancy.

' There would seem, thereto*, to be at least two reasons for ,anticipatiUg that some time. must elapse before the • monetary situation can- become normal. If, on the one band,......