Business circles have learned with deep regret of the. death
of Lord Ebury, which occurred last Sunday following upon a serious accident in the hunting field.- Others have written of Lord Ebury's distingUished career and his achievements in many directions, but although concerned, perhaps, with more prosaic matters, .I would like . to emphasize the great work he has accomplished during recent years as Chairman
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of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society. From the moment that he assumed those responsibilities Lord Ebury had a high conception of what they entailed. He believed m his Society, and he believed also that these were days when inspiration from the heads of our industrial organization was never more needed to bring out the requisite efficiency and effort on the part of everyone concerned in contributing to the success of a business enterprise. His speeches at the annual meetings of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society com- manded attention and respect from a wide circle for they were not the speeches of a " guinea pig " Peer director but clearly were the utterances of someone whose heart and soul was in the welfare of the undertaking over which he presided. He Must be reckoned among those leaders of industry who had a clear conception both of what business in the best sense of the word meant to the future of this country combined with a clear recognition of those forces responsible for crippling our industrial activities. That his own personal efforts to aid industry should have been thus terminated at the early age of forty-eight is, I consider, a tragedy. A. W. K.
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