Public Comment on Transfer of McVitie Shares to Premier London, Sept. 12.
Comment has been excited by the fact that 30,000 £1 shares Messrs. McVitie & Price, Ld., have been alloted to the Premier.
Interviewed in that connexion at Lossiemouth, Mr, Ramsay Donald explained that the capital was not his. He only technically owned the shares, which had been allotted to him for the endowment of a motor-car presented to him by Sir Alexander Grant, the: managing director of McVitie Price, which the Premier felt that he could not afford to keep if went out of office. The shares the Premier's death would revert! to Sir Alexander Grant. Mr. Ma Donald said that it was a fami matter and had nothing to do with polities.
Sir Alexander Grant got. his. baronetcy for public services, including the gift of the National Library to Scotland—Reuter.
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