17 JUNE 1966, page 24

Set Sufferers

It seems unfair that ENGLISH CHINA CLAY, which exports about 60 per cent of its output, should get no refund of its Selective Employment Tax, but later on the Treasury must......

Consuming Interest

London Particular By LESLIE ADRIAN VENDING machines, those railway-station adornments that we used to call slot machines and look upon with tolerant amusement have become an......

Market Notes

By CUSTOS T HE downward trend of the security markets was checked when the news came from Basle of the renewed credits for sterling. On the other band, a sharp fall was seen in......

The Mummy' Tarl Enovv

Reprieve for Sterling By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT H owfortunate that at a time when sterling was again under great pressure the central bankers of the world should have been meeting......

A Tangled Skein

By JOHN BULL O XFORD sceptics have struck again. This time it is investing in ordinary shares which is under attack. It is not that investing is an immoral activity (that is not......