23 MAY 1931, Page 32

Financial Notes

TEE ALLIANCE.

The recent meeting of the Alliance Assurance Company was rendered memorable by the fact that it marked the farewell speech of the chairman, Mr. C. E. Barnett, who has been connected with the Board for fifty years, during the last eleven of which he has served in the capacity of chairman. Mr. Barnett was able to give a most excellent 'account of the (Continued on page 840.)

Financial Notes

(Continued from. page 838.) past year's work, and it must have given him particular pleasure to be able to announce that the actual net new Life business completed during the past year of £3,210,646, was the highest ever transacted in one year. * * *