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AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS SYDNEY, May 2fi. There was a slight relapse in prices on the Stock Exchange to-ilav. The nirnover covered a wide ran ye id securities and the market generally retained ft healthy tone. Sales: Rank of New South Wales, £33 os; Queensland National Hank, Aid ,1s; Bank of Adelaide, i't! Ids; Colonial Sugar, .£42 os; Automat ie Totes, prof.. Bums I ‘hi!]), South Seas, lids lid; Australian Gas, A, .117 11s (id; Berlei, lids (id; British Tobacco, 4 Is 10-id. Tooths, dlls; Queensland Brewery, lists 4Jd; Australian Iron and Steel, prof., lids; Australian (Mass, 01s (id: I>u it lop- I’erdrian, ISs lid; Wilcox .MolTlin, Us ltd. Henry Jones, 41s lid; Electrolytic Zinc, prof., I’.ils ltd; A inn Igaiiiulod Textiles, 10s 7d; Claude Neon, dls; Hume l’i])e, 18s ltd; Australian Guarantee Corporation, lids lid; Ilackshalls, Ids 30^(1; Peters, 445; Spencers, (is 11.(1; Victoria Nyaiiza, 8s; Lustre, lids ltd; New South Wales Mont do I’iete, lids 7 id. Broken Hill Proprietary. (14s ltd; ditto, new issue, 40s Pd ; South Broken Hill, £5 Ills; Zinc Corporation, Sds; Kuala Kaiupar Tin. 14s ,8d; h’uwnug Tin, S>s ltd; Placer Development, £d Ids (id; Lady Shenton Cold, 4s Pd. Morning sales included: Commouwenlth bonds, 4 per cent. IPItS, Cl 1 oil 17s lid; 4 per cent, 1041, £lOl Ills (id; 4 per cent, lOdl, £lO2 10s; Bank of New South Wales, .£33 ds; Toohoys Brewery, It Is (id; Toot Its Brewery, 52s (id; An thony Hordern, 10s; Australian Glass, 01s (id; British Tobacco, 41s 0d; Goldshrough Mort, Oils Oil; Henry Jones, 4 1s 3d; Howard Smith, 18s; Lustre, 2ds ltd. .MELBOURNE, May 2d. Sales on the .Melbourne Stock Exchange to-day included: Commercial Bank of Australia, 10s dd; i',.S. and A. Bank, £(> 4s; Goldshrough Mort, .'llls Pd: Howard Smith, ISs 2d; Amalgamated Zinc, 0s 8d; British Tobacco, 41s dd; 0. J. Coles, 70s; Emperor, 12s J. 1; Mount Morgan, 14> lid.
WILLIAMS & KETTLE, LTD. 45TH ANNUAL MEETING The fortv-lifill annual meeting. of the shareholders of Williams and Kettle. Limited, was hold at the company’s oliiee in Napier, on -Monday, flic lion. IJ. A. Russell, M.L.C., chairman of directors, presiding. Til moving the adoption of (he report and balance sheet (already published) the chairman congratulated the shareholders on the satisfactory position of the company’s affairs, and stated that the directors were very pleased to pay a 6 per rent- dividend after having paid rebates to shareholders during the yeai of I.f per cent on goods purchased, f per cent, on land commissions and 10 per cent on other commissions contributed
Tim adoption of the report and balance sheet was seconded by Mr. N. Kettle. On the motion of Mr. ,1. W. Sandlmann. seconded by Air. .1. T. Fenwick, the retiring directors, Messrs. Harold A. Russell, 11. Al. Campbell, and E. T. ft. Carlyon, were re-eleeled. On the motion of Air. ft. I'A Gardiner, seconded hy Air. \V. Harvey, the retiring auditors. Messrs. Robert Dobson and Company, were re-elected. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the directors, general manager and staff, for the excellent maimer in which the business of the company had been conducted during the past vear. on the motion of Air. \V. \ r . ,1. Alackay, seconded hv Air. (!. F. Gardiner.
The rhnirmnn staled that in appreciation of the services rendered during the year the directors had granted the oilier staff a bonds of 5 per cent.
ROTOITI TIMBER PREFERENCE DIVIDEND Tin- Rotoiti Timber Company. Limited, Wellington, is railing n special general meeting of shareholders to confirm payment of a dividend of f> per rent per annum on preference shares, covering the period from .Inly 1, 1028, to dune 30, 1033. This is in accordance wit 1 1 tm agreement made with preference shareholders, whose capital nominally carries 8 per cent. The company recently wrote down the ordinary shares from All to 1 V, each.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 15
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