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Family activities in Sussex and London, lunch and dinner engagements, visits from friends and former colleagues and occasional attendance at the theatre or concerts. Addis resigns from the London Committee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) but continues to serve on the court of London University, the board of the P&O, the Chatham House Currency Committee, the Economic Policy Committee and as British censor to the Bank of Morocco and travels in Canada as a member of the Royal Commission on Canadian Banking.
JANUARY Son John awarded scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford; Addis attends London University Court meetings discussing the Bloomsbury site, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) London Committee meetings and the Tuesday Club; the Addis's former home in Hampstead, London sold; son Tom unemployed.
FEBRUARY Attends P&O, British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.)., London University Court, Tuesday Club and St Felix Council meetings, with son John on visit to Bonn; attends opening of China House in Gower Street, London.
MARCH Attends London University Investment Committee and St Felix Council meetings; travels to Scotland with son Charles for family visits; to Paris, attends meetings of the Economic Policy Committee and the P&O and finishes term as chairman of the London Committee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), 'Well, I am glad it is over.' 30.
APRIL Working on memoranda for the Consortium; appointed churchwarden at Frant, Sussex; to Morocco with wife for Bank of Morocco meeting, visits and sightseeing.
MAY Visits Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald, 'It is not easy to discuss currency with him. He has no grasp of the financial problems', 18; to Paris; meeting of the Economic Policy Committee, 'We are making some way with a difficult task.' 24.
JUNE Visited by Vandeleur Grayburn, Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), 'A strong, vigorous, I should say reckless personality Talks incessantly and not very convincingly', 6; attends talks on US cotton and wheat loan to China, and the future of the Consortium, and the related plans of T.V. Soong, Chinese Finance Minister.
JULY Currency Committee meetings; studying Soong's draft suggestions, asked to join the Canadian Currency Committee; to Paris, wedding of daughter Henrietta, 28.
AUGUST To Canada with wife as a member of the Royal Commission on Canadian Banking.
SEPTEMBER Continued work in Canada, but eventual failure to produce a unanimous report, 'Today we come to the parting of the ways. Macmillan, Brownlee and I will recommend a Central Bank; White [Sir Thomas Whyte] & Leman will enter notes of dissent', 25; receives LLD from The Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.October On return to England Addis resumes Currency Committee, British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.)., London University Court, Tuesday Club and P&O meetings; to Paris, presides at Tunbridge Wells and District Institute of Bankers meeting.
NOVEMBER Currency Committee, British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.) and P&O meetings; a suggestion of moving the Bank for International Settlements to London under discussion.
DECEMBER P&O and University Court meetings; very cold weather and skating on the lake at Woodside; wedding of son Charles; to Paris.
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