36 Investing at its Best and 
In the manner described the entire amount of the issue 
passes in small quantities direct from the Registry into 
the hands of bona-fide investors, who have bought to 
hold. This plan ensures a strong holding of the stock 
from the outset, and prevents any undue depression in 
price occurring afterwards through untimely sales 
of large blocks of the stock. News of the under 
taking’s progress is constantly received at first hand, 
and can be communicated directly to all the holders of 
the stock. 
Should difficulties arise in connection with any 
security of this kind, their occurrence becomes known, 
in the first instance, to the Registry, which at once in 
vestigates the matter;—its experts forthwith centre 
their energies upon discovering adequate remedies, and 
these, so soon as fully prepared, are forthwith applied. 
Difficulties of any kind are thus met and overcome 
in a thoroughly effective manner by careful and decisive 
action. 
To obtain stocks suitable for its issues the Registry 
does not wait until it is approached with offers. By 
means of its system of agents located in every 
part of the world, and guided by its up-to-date infor 
mation upon the financial condition of all classes of 
enterprise in all quarters, it seeks out desirable under 
takings requiring further capital. All such business is 
in this way obtained at first hand without inter 
mediaries. 
Of the propositions made and investigated, only a 
very small proportion are accepted, for the standard of