23 MARCH 1929, page 46

Comptrollership Of The Bank. _is'inna The Time Of The...

a few months ag e of the election of Sir Ernist HarVey as-aDirector of the Bank of England and as Deputy Governor for the ensuing y ear, there has been a good deal of......

Mappin And Vvebb.

The annual report of Mappin and Webb for the past year shows ,that there has been a further substantial increase iI the profit, the figure being £102,781 against £86,817. Never......

The Problem Remains.

. However, it is understood that the company is endeavouring to discover some means by which. the issue .can be made on lines which adequately recognize the reasonable claims of......

Debenhams' Progress.

Special interest attaches to the report of Debenhan't Limited for the year ending December 81st last, as it is the first report to show the effect of the acquisition of the......

Vickers' Progress.. When The Recent Dividend Of Vickers...

announced at the same rate as a year ago, namely, 8 per cent. on the shares at their present written down value, the market we a little disappointed, :but since the appearance......

Voting Power.

Briefly the position seems to have been that while . the General Electric Co. has been at pains to have its articles of association revised in the direction of securing voting......

Shareholders' Rights.

It is really on this question of market price that the main claim of the American shareholders rests. In other words, if the company had made its issue at round about the market......

The New Deputy: -

Immediately after. Easter the change over in Deputy Governors will take place. Mr..Cecil Lubbock, to whom the . City as well as the Bank Court . feels that it owes a debt of......

Financial -1\lotps -- : Markets Better....

ALTHOUGH monetary influences continue •to dominate the situation on the Stock Exchange, the tone has been rather better during the past- week. Not that there has been any......

British Traditions.

And yet there is general. satisfaction in the City that the protests of - American shareholders have received attention, and this satisfaction is not the least pronounced......