25 DECEMBER 1964, page 23

Consuming Interest

Merry Explosions By LESLIE ADRIAN Ostentatious or not, it needs resolute self- indulgence to pay 30s. to 50s. a bottle for a wine that provokes a frivolous response rather than......

Company Notes

By LOTHBURY HE Australia and New Zealand Bank con- I eluded another prosperous and successful year ended September 30, 1964, when con• solidated net profits rose to £2.167......

Another Part Of The Forest

Fearful Symmetry By STRIX I WAS casting rather desperately about for a Yuletide topic when the .tiger s glass eye caught mine, and I remembered that the poor brute had met its......

'answers To Christmas Questions

(a) A contention about words. (b) A love of arning." (c) An offensive smell. (d) DecoratiVe ripper and brass ware. (e) An animal of the civet irfily. • (a) Indict' means to......