THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1929.
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OLD AND NEW BANK OF ENGLAND.
[FROM "THE TIMES."]
There is great deal of beauty and senti- ment about the Bank of England. One canot quite comprehend the Bank of England without taking those qualities into account along with the bills and the bellion. The rebuilding now announced may, and probably will, involve the loss of some of the beauty and more of the sentiment. As this is inevitable nobody can complain. The Bank of England, being busier than ever before in the course of its long and businesslike history, cun- not afford to have its clerks scattered bere and there.
The sentiment attaching to the Bank will be understood. It arises from tradition," power, dignity, and association. Most Londoners bave seen, in the early evening, the detachment of guards marching to duty at the bank; and they will talk, as they watch the little procession, of the conditions of its service, Especially are they impressed with the officers" privilege of each inviting one friend to share his dinner and wine, and also his vigil. The guards have been ready to defend the bank at night since the Lord George Gordon riots, and though since then- London has had a century of opportunity to get used to the custom, its interest has not yet dwindled into monotony, probably because it symbolizes the bank's high significance. This military watch is a reality and no mere form. None the less has it for Londoners the sentiment attaching to long usage..
In one of the inner balls bang relics of another martial association. Arranged in a gleaming circle are the swords of the old Volunteer Corps of the Bank of England, started when Napoleon was threatening the country. On either side bang the colours. blackened by time, of this corps-the very colours depicted in an oil painting of the ceremony of their presentation on Lord's Cricket Ground towards the end of the eighteenth century. "Judging from the painting, the uniform,of the corps then resembled that of the Grenadiers. The men are in scarlet cutaway coats, white breeches, and high black gaiters; much the ume costume as we saw the other day in the pageart of Changing the Guard at the Royal Tournament.
ROTUNDA TO DISAPPEAR.
The rotunda, it seems, will disappear andor the rebuilding scheme. This is a pity, as the architects evidently feel; because much of the sentiment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centurica ap- peara still to be alive beneath the great domed roof. Stirring scenes have been witnessed here until a day comparntirely recept. When it was the rule of the barik for dividend warrants to be presented in person the holders came to the rotunda on the specified dates from all parts of the country. All it meant to them before the days of railways only they could tell and, as they are no longer voluble, we cannot imagine Many years later, when travelling had become almost a national pastime, it was a brave right to see them clustering thickly in the ante-room for the preliminaries, and then thing their stand, often six deep, at the rotunda counter. What material în the rotunda for students of eccentric and strongly-marked character!
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No Haig & Haig Whisky is being exported in Decanter bottles.
We find it necessary to make this statement because our House was, at one time, a user of this bottle.
After long experience we find that it is not a good bottle. It is easily broken, and the sizes frequently vagy, to the detriment of the buyers. We disco- tized its us the interests of out customers.
We sell the same high-class quality Whisky in this bottle. We have one quality only.
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Dropped from the clocda into the Garden Court, and allowed to wander as he pleased in its close neighbourhood, a stranger might fancy himself in the domain of some later Mediei who mingled banking with a Best for architecture and décoration. The. old court room, with its white pillars and inlaid plaques, like big pieces of rare Wedgwood, has a lightness and proportion that are rare in the City of London, where interiors are apt to be heavily handsome. From the windows directors of the bank, these hundred years or more, have looked on to the spreading lims tree which remains the centre of the peaceful lovliness of Garden Court.
The committee room and the ante-rooma. share the beauty of the court-roou, and also its air of taste. None of them suffers from that overcrowding of pictures, busts. or other records "of the past which often proves to fatal to grace. Yet the bank haa its treasures of art. One of them is a mantelpiece of white marble with a frieze- like decoration in exquisite sculpture. What period of Italian art it represents "the connoisseurs must decide if they can. It was brought to the bank about the mid- dle of last century from the house, of the Marquess of Anglesey, which then became, and bas remained, the bank's western branch in London.
A hopeful statement has been made that the amenitier of these old rooms may be; preserved in she reconstructed building, and that some of the vaulted rooms and cor- ridors may be retained. Nothing but urgency would justify the least tampering with an interior so mirably fitted, in its simple dignity, to trpify the Bank of Eng land. The consolation is that work is sura to be done with dus reverence/both to beauty and tradition.
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Now that there is no possibility of doubt about the discerning public being willing to pay "a little extra for the Haig & Haig quality of Whisky, it is well for them to know two things of primary importance, viz. ——
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(2)
HE manufacture of Grain Whisky (otherwise known as Patent-still Whisky) has overtaken the demand and it (some- times aided by a little Malt Whisky otherwise known as Pot-still Whisky) is going to come down in price in the Home market as soon as the appalling duty is reduced. Foreign. markets are now being flooded with these very thin, poor blends at very low prices.
HE stocks of old Malt Whisky which- give the creamy, rich character that you find in Haig & Haig, are not anything like enough to meet the demand. It will be some years before matured stocks will meet the needs of thoughtful and cultured users of fine Whisky,
Haig & Haig
are going to maintain the high standard of quality,, declining all but the highest-class trade.
We will reserve these stocks of the finest Whisky that goes from Scotland to our regular friends. We are trading on quality,
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