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SWAN BREWERY CO. PROFIT OF £117,140 FOR YEAR INCREASED DIVIDEND Accounts of the Swan Brewery Company, Limited, Perth, for the half-year ended March 31, have been issued, and it is now possible to compute the company's profit for' the full year ended March 31. The profit for the 12 months was £117.140, as against £110,150 m 1935-36, and £96,160 in 1934-35. Last month shareholders authorised the subdivision of the ordinary shares which were originally of 25s face value into 5.s shares. The interim distribution on the 25s shares was 2s, plus a bonus of 6d, being equivalent to a payment of 6d on the 5s shares. This, together with the final dividend of 6d and bonus of 3d on the 5s shares, made Is 3d for the year, or 25 per cent, compared with 20 ocr cent in 1935-36.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 6
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