HIGHER PROFITS
Canterbury Farmers’ Co-op.
Dominion Special Service.
Christchurch, September 13.
Further substantial improvement in the finances of the Canterbury Farmers,’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., is shown in the accounts for the year ended July 31.
Gross prolit is £16,250 higher at £129,884 and net prolit, at £22,297, shows an improvement of £5183. Dividends are maintained at 5 per cent, on both preference and ordinary shares, £15,000 will be sent to various reserves and £3736 carried forward.
The company, in common with many others financing and dealing with farming products, had a hard struggle during the slump in 1931. A loss of £97,081 was made and losses in the two following years accumulated a deficit 'of £113,680. Since then the company has made gratifying progress as farmers of South Canterbury have been enabled to return to profitable farming.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19370914.2.178
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 18
Word Count
137HIGHER PROFITS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 18
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.