"A MODEST MAN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 11

"A MODEST MAN."

WANTS TO FIND OUT.

RETIRED ENGLISH BANKER.

While he expressed a keen interest in New Zealand's political and financial future, Mr. C. W. H. Riches, recently retired assistant general manager of the National Provincial Bank of London, would give no preconceived impression of the position when he arrived this afternoon by the Niagara.

"I am a modest man," he said, "and I want to see at first hand. After all, you people here have a better idea of your own position than an outsider can have." Fluctuations of stock on the English market were not to be taken seriously, he said, so long as the actual position here was fundamentally sound.

Mr. Riches is at present on a world lour and plans to spend about eight days here. Ho » going then to Australia and South Africa. He wanted to see all the four Dominions of the Empire. He had been amazed at what he had seen at progress in Canada, and considerinc that the Dominions generally were so young in years it was astomshing what had been accomplished. «_ wae very impressed with the entrance to Auckland through the Haurakl Gulf. "It is equal to anything I have aver mm." be aaid.