5 JANUARY 1924, page 11

The New Year's Honours List Was Not An Exciting One.

Lord . Incheape deservedly became a viscount ; and Sir Frederick Banbury was made a baron. This latter event had, indeed, a certain academic interest, for it makes one speculate......

We Must Congratulate The Shell Company And The...

Company (who arc the proprietors of Pratt's Motor Spirit) on having taken the lead in removing the hideous field advertisements of petrol. Other petrol companies are following......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 8 Per Cent.

July 5, 1928; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100*; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, 104......

Sir William Beveridge Contributed A Most Interesting...

week's Nation. He called it " An Economic General Staff," and he devoted himself to pointing out the need for the formation of such a body. Just as we have a permanent "......

His Task Had Been Double. He Had First To Create

what was practically a new language with which to express all the conceptions and indeed the data which have been added to the knowledge of mankind during the last two thousand......

The Disastrous Outbreak Of Foot-and-mouth Disease...

of abating. Forty-eight new outbreaks were confirmed on Monday. On that day a conference was held at Crewe between representatives of the Ministry. of Agriculture, the National......

On Saturday Last The Terms Of The Agreement Between The

Government and the new British, Foreign and Colonial Corporation, providing for the formation of the Imperial Air Transport Company, were published. On the whole, the agreement......