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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13691, 5 September 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

Sir Wimtbr Perceval. K.C.M.IJ.. chit »*n Of tbo Anglo-Jan inrvr Bank. Ltd.. recently told shareholder* an inu-tvfting More d the bank's experience on making itt debat in Japan. " When the bank wa* formed,** b* mid, "we all thought that what was termed the commercial firstfruit* of the alliance between ihr («-<> conntries would be welcomed in Japan a* an «rtdrsce of a dWire on the \un «f, the Eng&h people to do ootnethins; «W» than co-operab* for defensive par poaui, and it wm conudend that tb* AW**-**!***** Bank wonW tx* regarded a* the prmctrcal expression of tlie w>h of the British -capitalist and trader f«» jotn io the development of the indtMtrie* of Japan, and to increase the trade betveeo the t»© covatrk*. It wn» therefont • rarpria*, as iroexpected as it was wpSeaeent, to find" that, despite th* fact that* the formation, of the hank had «w« from lending btndneas men in J*pan. our advent then* inn regarded by ftorernnun; officials with that ct.orUim* and i'mp<weiv* hoatiTiir which tl». .1.-ipan.** ar<- past BUbtem m tbo ait of ■ipp'.rin,; "