COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 194, 6 May 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Customs duties collected at, tho port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1383 3s. lid. WELLINGTON OPJJKA HOUSE COMPANY. Tho directors' report, of the Wellington Opera liuut>e Oouijmuy, Liuiiu-d, ahowa that there has been written oil the Grand Opera House during tin year ilaOO, and on tho Old Opera House tiic sum of £2io. The net prolit lor the year, alter making provision lor depreciation, amounts to £1070 12s. 2d. Addmg this to the amount bi ought forward in appropriation account last year makes that account £4VU3 19s. lOd. Out of this there have been paid dividends to the amount of £2826 Os. 6d., leaving a balance available of £IVIJ2 19s. 4d. The directors now propose a further dividends of 3 per cent, (making the usual 6' per cent, for tho year), which will amount to £1456 16s„ leaving «>.■ balance of £326 3s. 4d. to be carried forward. They also recommend that the usual honorarium of £105 to the directors he passed for payment. Messrs. W. 11. I'. Barber and Charles l'limmer, retiring director;, oiler themselves for re-tlectij'i. LONDON MARKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. 'ltec. Hay 6. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 1. Hemp.—Steady. Prices uncimugeu. ltubber.—l'iira, os. Hd. per lb; plantation, 2s. 'Id.; smoked, 2a. 3d.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.