IN THE PUBLIC EYE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3439, 5 March 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The level of expenditure in South Africa is on too high a plane, and the simplest and least disturbing method of rendering this is by a devaluation of its currency.—Professor J. G. Lawn (chairman, Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co.).

Our decision to advertise in the daily Press has been more productive of results than any other advertising in which we have previously engaged. —Sir Hurbert Hambling, Bart, (chairman, Lewis Berger and Sons). Industry will have to live on its fat, which is already very lean. —Professor John Hilton.

If workers were paid an economic wage they would be able to pay an economic rent. —Mr Hicks, M.P. The fixation of wages ought in future to have some relation to the actual value the recipient can gi"u in return, and not merely to what he can consume or to the number of years he has lived, totally regard'ess of individual merit.—Mr Andrew Williamson (chairman, English, Scottish and Australian Bank.)

It would be difficult to conceive of anything less like a swollen money trust of the imaginations of some of the extreme critics of the banks than a Scottish bank, which is conducted on the lines suggested by the experience of over 200 years of prudent management and service to the people. The Duke of Buccleuch (Governor, Royal Bank of Scotland). One of the great forward steps we could make would be the consolidation of the credit resources of this Empire.—The Prime Minister of Canada.