24 OCTOBER 1931, page 44

The *fiscal Controversies.

Recent events, including the prolonged industrial depression culminating in the financial crisis and the abandonment of the gold standard by Great Britain, have for the moment......

Common Sense Needed.

During the election, however, there has been a mad struggle in places on the part of bigoted (I am afraid there is no other word that can be used) Tariff Reformers and bigoted......

Financial Notes

ELECTION MARKETS. PRICES on the Stock Exchange during the past week have for the most part fluctuated each day in accordance with views concerning the result of the General......

* * * * " Democracy On Its Trial."

A very striking address was delivered last Monday evening by Mr. Hugh Lewis, the well-known insurance expert, before the Insurance Institute in London, on the subject of " World......

* * * * B.a.g.s. Report.

Following upon the announcement by the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Company that there would be no final dividend, the full accounts make a somewhat better showing than......

Central Argentine Results.

As in the case of the Buenos Aires Great Southern, so with the Central Argentine Railway Company the directors have had to face a huge loss on the exchange. So far as gross......

First Things First.

When the election is over, and again assuming that a National Government is the result, we shall once more have a test applied to the sincerity and ability of politi- cians and......

A Prosperous Concern.

In these days of financial and industrial depression the annual report of the United Dairies, Limited, is a distinctly cheery document. The directors recently announced an......

_ Retrieving Political Reputation.

What might have been advisable in the way of tariffs, but for the sickly condition of other countries and for the abandonment of the gold standard by many countries, might not......