'DEAR OLD BOY"
MONEY-LENDERS AND PEERS. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO A BILL. (By Telegraph.— Press Association,- -Copyrights (Times— Syrlncy Sun Special Cables.) LONDON, 27th February. In tho House of Lords, Lord Newton moved the second reading of the amendment to the Money-lenders Act to provide legislation to prohibit moneylenders from touting by circulais and using well-known names, such as Curzon, Rothschild, and Harms worth. The money-lending "fraternity, said Lord Newton, pestered clergymen, Government officials, and professional men, offering to lend fabulous sums at five per centum. Ho quoted false testimonials, one purporting to be from a peer, addressing a money«lendei % ns "Dear Old Boy," and asking him to let him have bank notes for five hundred pounds by the morning. They even wrote to boys at Eton. These men were not merely a nuisance, but a real danger, offering opportunities for blackmail.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1914, Page 5
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