The second reading of the amendment to the Money Lenders' Act wai moved last week by Lord New ton in the House of Commons. This provides fur legislation with regard to money-lenders to prohibit touting circulars using well known names such as Curzon, Rothschild, and Harmsworth. The money-lending fraternity have pestered clergymen, Government officials, and professional men, offering to lend fabulous sums at 5 per cent., and have quoted false testimonials, one purporting to come from a Peer addressing a moneyleider as "Dear Old Boy," and asking the money-lender to let him have bank notes for £SOO in the morning. The usurers even wrote to the boys at Eton. Lord Newton pointed out that the whole thing was not merely a nuisance, but a real danger, offering opportunities for blackmail.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 649, 7 March 1914, Page 2
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