Excerpt from Annual Report: To Which Is Appended a Review of Business Conditions During the Year 1915 Your Directors deeply regret to record the loss by death during the year of one of their colleagues, the late General Manager, Mr. Alexander Laird. Although a member of the Board only since 1911, Mr. Laird had served the Bank in many capacities for nearly forty years, becoming General Manager in 1907 and retiring only a few months ago. He had an international reputation as a banker and expert in foreign exchange, and his death is an irreparable loss to the Bank and to the whole community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.