PROTECTING THE PUBLIC
(To the Editor.) [ , Sir,—Questions have been asked in the House of Representatives with a view to inducing the Government to protect the public by introducing legislation for the licensing of agents of life-insurance companies. This may be a step m the right direction, but it is a mistake, to single, oat comparatively innocuous insurance agents and permit-the free x selling of bogus and intrinsically unsound shares, .which are sold by persuasive tactics to men ana women unable to resist the lure of promised high dividends and ignorant of the principles of finance. .These sharebrokers" aim to make a few paltry pounds at the expense of someone elses hundreds, and are able to do so within the law. If these individuals are not already licensed by the council,. there should be some method of taking disciplinary actions against those who, failing to gull, indulge in insolence.-! am, etc.,
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Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 8
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150PROTECTING THE PUBLIC Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 8
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