25 MAY 1929, page 33

Finance—public And Private

Scottish. - Banking Activity . IT would be hard to 'say whether for consistently sound an d conservative management the . prize should be awar ded- I*, English or to Scottish......

Foreign Competition.

Although the Electricity (Supply) Act was only passed in 1926, the Electricity Board set up under that Act seems to have lost no time in pushing forward the schemes for......

Electricity And Industry

AT a moment when the various political parties are eagerly presenting to the country their methods for, dealing with those industries which are still depressed, it must, in......

Loan Ali I V Ities.

In one respect I . am inclined to think that Scottish banking may, perhaps, have widened in its activities during recent years rather more even than in the case of banking south......

Consolidating Existing Systems.

In this country it would seem that we have proceeded on a rather hand-to-mouth system, so that for electrical purposes the country is divided into a number of small watertight......

Earning Power.

In the matter of profit earning power, it may be said that the steadiness of dividends is as noteworthy as in the case of the English banks, while there have been one or two......

Rapid Progress.

Already the Board has adopted schemes for five areas covering nearly one half of the country, and in connexion with the construction of the interconnecting wires, or grid,......

New " Spheres Of Influence."

Evidence of activity on the part of the Scottish banks' is not merely confined to theof the balance sheets, for in the case of two of fi tie n i s ianks which have retained......