GROWING STRONGER

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 9

GROWING STRONGER

SIGNS OF BETTER TRADE

BANK CHAIRMAN'S VIEW

CONFIDENCE RETURNS

(British Official Wireless.) \ ETJGBY, December 12. ' Viscount Churchill, presiding at thai annual shareholders' meeting of the British Overseas Bank ■ today, stated that despite various new unsettling factors which had appeared during the last twelve months the first faint signs of trade improvement noticeable aj year ago had definitely grown stronger^ Indeed, in view of'the difficulties mem tioned the force behind this favourable! development must be very much greater; than could be measured by the actual' recovery shown. Even more reassuring was that this progress was largely the; outcomp of regained confidence among; business communities, especially ia Britain, who had begun to recover from the shocks of the last few years, anii adapt themselves to new conditions* He believed that they could look for* ward with increasing confidence.