ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 7

ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR.

WASHINGTON, April 9

The Department, of Agriculture forecasts that the probable wheat, crop this year will be about 550,300,000 busliels. This is based on reports showing winter wheat nl 77.<1 per cent, of normal on April 1, comparet.l with 82.7 per cent, a year ago. Preliminary reports ami April conditions indicate that for the United States as a whole the abandonment prior to the harvest is likely to be close to the usual average, 11.8 per cent, of the. acreage sown in the autumn. Tim condition of winter wheat in the plains States is said to be about the average, while in the Ohio and Upper Mississippi valleys the conditions are below the average, also in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast, States. The Washington crop is in especially poor condition. CHICAGO MARKET PRICES. CHICAGO, April 9. Wheat.— May, 1 dollar 133 ( 'enls. per bushel; July, 1 dollar 15 18 cents; September, 1 dollar 17 5-0 cents; December, 1 dollar 22 cents.

KAIKORAI TRAM COMPANY. DIVIDEND OF 10 PEI! CENT. [nv TM,i:.'ii;.i fit. —own runhi:si'oni»f.nt. ) DUNHDIN.-Thursday. The annual report of the Dunedin anil - Kaikorai Tram Company, which conducts the Stuart Street cable car service- was presented at. the annual meeting last evening. It staged that the (radio receipts for the year totalled £11,90 d, a decrease of £2Ol. The. cars ran 34.164 (rips, covering in all 79,119 miles, carrying 603,538 down passengers and 790.,726 up passengers. A further sum of £IOOO had since the balance dafe been invested in the Government. per cent. loan. One of the heavy costs of tho year was the necessary repairs in connection with llf»i breaking of tho shaft. The directors, declared tin interim dividend at Iho rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the half year ended July .31, 1929, and recommended a further dividend at, the rale of 10 per cent, for the half year ended January 31, 3930. They also recommended that tho sum of £SOO be transferred from tho appropriation account (o tho reserve account, which would then reach £11,500.

Tho report, and balance-sheet were adopted. Messrs. A. Rliro, .T. A.. .Ainpo rind d, Laurcnson worn i.'leclecl to fill tiln llirt'p vacancies on the diiTctorato.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET. • LONDON, April n. Tho London tallow sales worn w>(, held fo-dny. The next sales have, boon fixed for April 30.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST

Dividends— Due. Kem ptborne Prosser Drug Co.— final, .if . p.c. .. .. Now. Milne and Choyce, Ltd-.—interim, ord.. put. and dob. stk'.. 8 P.c. p.a. .. Now. NX. Breweries interim, 71 p.c. Apl, !t Wnina Collieries, annual, "i p.c. May 1 English. Scottish and Australian Bank, half-yearly interim .. May I Call Reliance Loan Co., (jd por pref. share, ou or before .. .. July 3