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SMITHFIELD .MARKETS MEAT BOARD’S REPORT Tito ATent Ecn.nl reports having received the followking cabled advice from London dated May 23: — “Lamb.-—The market is it shade easier. “Mutton. —Lightweight wethers are slightly lower. Ewes are easier, with heavier arrivals and a slow demand. “Beef.—Frozen beef prices are nominal. “Mew Zealand porker pigs.—Trade is slow. “New Zealand baeoner pigs.—The market is quiet, and unchanged. ’ ’
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE SATURDAY’S BUSINESS SYDNEY, May 23. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day included :—Bank ot Australasia, £l2 3s-. Commercial Bank of Sydney, £2)O 10s; Bank o£ New South vYales, £33 ss; Anthony Hordern, lys; British Tobacco, £2 Is' 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 4s 6d; ditto (new), £g; Duxdop-Pevdritut, 17s 10.], d ; Ensue, £L 4s; Meggitts, £1 6s 9d. Commonwealth Bonds. —1949, 5g per cent, £94 18s 9d ; 1038, 4 per cent. £lO3.
MORfcIS. HEDSTEOM, LTD. SAME TOTAL DIVIDEND A linal dividend oi 2-j per cent on ordinary shares lias been declared by Morris Hedstrom. .Limited. piautaL.ua owners and general merchants, t tjt, making 5 per cent for l lie year ended March 31. Payment will be made on June oOLast year the company paid a _ linal dividend of 3 per cent, making 5 per cent for the year, compared with 4 per cent, for the previous three years ami 6 per cent in 1931.
Although there have been practically no mushrooms this season, a few belated .Supplies came forward at the Auckland City Markets on Friday and realised up to £1 a petrol tin.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 13
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