COMMERCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 10

COMMERCIAL

WORKSOP EXTENDED CO

SIXTH DIVIDEND PAYABLE

At the monthly meeting of directors of Worksop Extended Gold Dredging Co., Limited, a dividend (the sixth) .of 10 per cent, free of income tax, on the capital of the company was declared. The dividend will be payable at the company's office, Reef ton, on and after July 6. This dividend will absorb £I6OO.

The transfer books of the company will bo closed from July 1 to 0, both dnvs inclusive.

A sum fd £l6O lift* been tuUled to the special reserve fund, which now stands at £1)60. With the above dividend included, this makes a total of 60 per cent, on the capital invested which has been paid to shareholders since dredging operations commenced in August, 1934.

LONDON MEAT MARKETS

HIGHER PRICES REVIEWED

The Meat Board reviews the Smith •leld market at the end of last week a-' follQW.9: "L;un\—The market is firm with ;

further advance in prices. Consumption continues to improve. ''Mutton.—For wethers and ewes there is better trade at increased prices. "Beef.—The market for frozen beef is nominal. Chilled beef is firmer owing to smaller total'supplies. "New Zealand porker pigs.—The market is firmer, but. consumption is falling off. "Now Zealand baconer pigs.—The market.is firmer owing to shorter supplies." SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE SYDNEY, June 13. Pales on the Stock Exchange to-day included:—Commonwealth Bonds, 3 per cent, 1048, £Ol 10s; 4 per cent, 1041, £101; 1057, £IOO 17s lid; 1061, £lOl lis 3d; Australian Gas, A, £7 12s; Anthony Hordern, ISs (!d: Associated News, prof., L!2s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 735; new issue, fiOs On*; Colonial Sugar, £l2 2s Gd; Fairymead .Sugar, -Ifis Od; Howard Smith, 10s 6d; James St oilman, 10s 4id.