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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 July 1920, Page 4

A correspondent writes to the "Christ - church Sun" :--As tho Bank of New Zealand seems to havo, a difficulty in allocating the huge profits it is making out of the New Zealand people, would it not be d graceful act on the part of the directors if they abandoned the charge of 106 per annum now made for keeping client's accounts ? If the Bank of New Zealand did this the other banks would no doubt follow its example. The Bank of New Zealand owes a great debt to the Dominion, and the directors should not forget it. Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce will take this matter up, and, if they do, they might also try and get the charging of exchange on New Zealand cheques abandoned also. Someone said to us the other day (recently remarked "Mark Lane Express"), that every fanner's son should go into a commercial business for a year or bo and treat this as part of his training as a farmer. At first sight this seems to be an absurb proposition, but on consideration there appears to be something in it, because it has to be remembered that amongst the rank and file of farmers there is a lack of- business method which is born of tradition. Of course it is uecessary to avoid the extreme. We have known business men going into farming, and fail lamentably, because they did not know how far to apply their business methods to agricultural nor where to stop. Qa the other hand some of our most successful fanners to-, day are men who thoroughly understand agriculture, and have also had a business training which can be applied with advantage. It may be taken for granted that the slow and easy ways of the traditional farmer, good fellow though he was, will not suffice for the post-war conditions of agriculture. We want and must ha.-.c business alertness as well as good cultivation , and in view of this time spent by a young fanner in the hu.-itlt! of commercialism may not be sud! a bad item, of training after all.