TRUST AND LOAN
DIVIDEND DECLARED
The Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investment Co., Ltd., directors report for the year ended 31st December, 1932, that . the sum to the credit of profit and loss on ■ the year's working, together with the : amount of £6761 16s 7d brought forward from the previous year, amounts to ! |£14,448 4s 9d, from which £3750 has been paid as an interim dividend at the rate of S per centr for the half-year ended 30th June, 1932, and a sum of £2000 trans- .' f erred to the special reserve account, which now stands at £3000. The board, as a : precautionary measure, has deemed it : prudent to strengthen this special reI serve. 1 The directors recommend that a further dividend be declared on the paid-up capital at the rate ot 3 per cent, for the ■ half-year ended 31st December, 1932, ■\ amounting to £3750 (making 6 per cent. ■I for the year), and that the balance, ;: {£4948 4s 9d, be carried forward. -, Mr. J. A. Plimmer, who for many years has,given valuable service to the company V as a director, and for the past fifteen ■■' years as chairman, having expressed his desire to be relieve_d from, that ofßce, Mr. : O. S. Watkins was appointed in his stead, llr. Plimmer still remains a member of ■'■ the board. The directors retiring by rotation are Messrs. Richard W. Gibbs and W. , H. Millward,' and they offer themselves ' for re-election. The auditors, Messrs. ' Ernest W. Hunt and Geo. F. Judd, offer : [themselves for re-election. The balance-sheet is as follows: — :: Liabilities. —Paid-up capital: 24,500 shares at £5 paid, £122,500; 250 shares at £10 paid, £2500; total, £125,000; deposits and " interest and investors, £274,193 8s 7d; reserve fund, £85,000; income tax, payable • February, 1933, £3449 3s 2d; amounts due company, £244 ss; special reserve ac- ■ count, £3000; profit and loss, £8098 4s -| 9d; bank balance, £4024 17s 9d—£503,009 ] 19s 3d. Contingent liability, income tax : payable February, 1934. Assets. —Mortgages, £434,078 4s sd; war j loan stock, 1938 (face value £40,000), j |£37,998 Is 3d; fixed deposits Bank of NewZealand, £5000; business premises, £10,844 Js 3d; freehold property, £10,274 6s lid; •interest, etc. (current), £5414 19s sd— ;, (£503,609 19s 3d. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 14
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363TRUST AND LOAN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 14
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