EDMENTS LIMITED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 12

EDMENTS LIMITED

Preference Share Issue Edments Limited, Mel'bournc, on Saturday advised the Stock Exchange Association that at an extraordinary general meeting on July 22 the shareholders approved of the ahiendments to the articles of association to provide for an issue of GJ per cent, cumulative preference shares. Later at a directors’ meeting it was determined to make an iksue of 52,500 GJ per cent, cumulative preference shares to he offered to shareholders at par on the basis of one cumulative preference share for every ordinary share held. Books will close for dividend and rights for new issues from August 5 to 17, inclusive. Applications for new shares will close on Monday, August 21. The annual general meeting will be held on August 17. BROKEN HILL SOUTH. LTD. Quarterly Dividend Declared Broken Hill South, Limited, on Saturday adviser! the Stock Exchange Association that a quarterly dividend at the unchanged rate of sixpence a share had been declared payable in on September 15. ’Transfer books will close on August 8. ELDER, SMITH AND CO., LTD. Final Dividend Declared Elder, Smith uud Co., Ltd., Adelaide, on Saturday cabled the Stock Exchange Association I hat the directors had declared a final dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum, payable on September 1, making a total for the year on the old shares, and at the same rate on the new shares from the respective due dates of the instalments, namely April 1 and June 1. Transfer books close from August 22 to September 1, both days inclusive. The dividend is at.an unchanged rate. Australian Gas Light Co. The Australian Gas Light Company. Sydney, has advised the Stock Exchange Association that the transfer book and register of proprietors will lx? closed 1 from August 2 to 10, both dates inclusive. . FROZEN MEAT TRADE Lamb Market Quiet The Bank of New Zealand, produce department, has received the following advice from its London office as at close of business last week The market for wethers is firm. The market for ewes is quiet. The market for lambs is quiet and unchanged. The market for chilled beef io firm. Wethers, light, 4-Jd. to sd. t heavy, 3d. to 3|d. Ewes. 2 3-Bd. to 3sd. Lambs, 2’s, 7 3-Bd. to ijd.; b’s. G*id. to G 7-Bd.; 4's. G 3-Bd. to GJd.; seconds, 6 7-Bd. to 7 l-Bd. Chilled beef, hinds, 5 5-Bd. to 6 l-Bd.; fores, 3 384. to 3 ’3 , -BtL