ADVERTISING LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 11

ADVERTISING LONDON.

AMERICAN'S ADVICE. After a personal investigation to see whether London is a proper place for a big American business convention next year, Mr. Wilson-Lawrenson told the Evening Standard that London ought to be one of the greatest convention cities in the world, but it has not been advertised. " You don't tell people about your capital. You are having a British Empire Exhibition next year, but I have never heard about it in America." He had been three weeks in London, and had not oven seen it mentioned in the English papers. "Is that exhibition going to happen or is ft not?" Mr. Wilson-Law-renson declares that the British people are the most heavily taxed in the world, and then asks why they do not tell' America by propaganda that they are paying anything up to 50 per cent, of incomes in taxes, and that they do it with a smile. If the American taxpayer knew what was the plight of his brother taxpayer, " there would be less difficulty about the debt problem.

7 PER CENT. CUMULATIVE PREFERENCE SHARES ON SALE. \ i _____ I A specially interesting feature <>f the formation of the N.Z. Guarantee Corporation is that 20.000 7 per cent, preference shares are being offered to the public, as well as 96,000 ordinary shares. These preference shares carry a 7 per cent, cumulative preference dividend—an unusually handsome return. The corporation's business will be profitable and safe. The capital will be em ployed immediately is no factory to wait for. In all respects this investment is one that demands the immediate attention of the public. Certainly, the prospectus should be closely studied. It may be obtained from any member of the Affiliated Stock Exchange of New Zealand, any branch of the Bank of New South Wales, the corporation's interim secretary, Mr. Frank H. Taylor, Box 553, Wellington, or the chief brokers of the capital issue, Messrs. A. M. Adams and Company, 12, Panama Street, Wellington. Applications f*>r shares may be made to the local brokers, Messrs. Colbeck and Griffiths 201, N.Z. Insurance Buildings, Auckland, or any member of the Auckland Stock Exchange.—(Ad vt.)