22 DECEMBER 1928, page 30

Lord Inchcape On Trade.

At the annual meeting of the P. & 0. Co. Lord Inchcape was in his usual good form, and after presenting the very satisfactory Report, with its increased dividend, to the......

Harrison Group Of Newspapers.

At least four of the companies in the Inveresk Paper group are able to show good results for the past year, namely, Illustrated Newspapers Limited, Illustrated London News and......

The Asbestos Merger.

It was a thoroughly cheerful, and at the same time sound, statement that Mr. W. W. Shepherd, the . Chairman of Turner and Newall—the manufacturers of asbestos, magnesia and......

Interesting Banking Development.

There has been a distinctly interesting banking development during the past month in the shape of an intimation that a petition is being presented in the Canadian Parliament to......

S. American Prosperity.

The speech made at last week's meeting of the Bank of London and South America Limited, by Mr. J. W. Beaumont Pease has served to draw attention—if such were necessary— to the......

Favourable Signs.

The very magnitude of the capital of these concerns conveys some idea of the importance of the undertakings and the vast interests affected. Both as regards iron and steel and......

Iiarrods (buenos Aires).

Additional interest was lent to the recent - meeting of Harrods (Buenos Aires) by the fact that the chairman, Sir Woodman Burbidge, was once again able to report, at first hand,......

Has To Be Reported, An Announcement Having Been Made During

the week to the effect that Vickers, Vickers-Armstrongs and Gunmen Laird and Co. had concluded agreements under which important working arrangements are contemplated. One of......

Banking In The Empire.

In very many respects the development is an interesting and an important one. For many years the Chairman of Barclays Bank Limited, Mr. F. C. Goodenough, has made no secret of......