Our advertisement columns have for. some days past contained details of the prospectus of the Small Investors Ca., Ld, which is now offering shares for public subscription. Numbers of our readers. will remember the interest aroused in this venture by Mr. Douglas Fleming in 1921, when he started the company in question, with the main idea of meeting the needs of people with small capital. It was felt that such people with only small amounts to invest or a few shares to sell, often an inconvenient number, ought to have more facilities at their disposal either for purchases or sales. Mr. Fleming undertook to afford them these facilities, and so well had he gauged the need that a large business immediately attended his efforts. The successes which followed showed that the original capital wag insufficient to cope with the number of transactions, and on this account it was decided to incorporate the company with the intention of securing the necessary additional funds for its daily- business, During the past week, money in Shanghai has_ probably been tighter that for the last 50 years, but to show the volume of business which is put through by the Small Investors' Ca. we give the following figures From Monday November 26 to Saturday December 1 the Small Investors' Ca. put through 265 transactions, of which total 36 contracts were for Outports, with a turnover as follows Ts
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