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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16811, 1 June 1926, Page 14

The profits of the Dunlop Rubber Company for 1925 amount to more than £3,200,000. The net profit, after certain reductions, is £2,746,229, or just over a million and a-half pounds more than in 192 i, and represents an increase of 85 per cent. Ordinary shareholders are to have a dividend of 15 per cent. The company actually earned 35 per cent, on its capital, .lust after the war the Dunlop Company was faced with the enormous loss of over 11 million pounds. This amount was reduced by the appropriation of reserves, to £10,529,5-i2, and the company's capital of 20 million pounds had to be cut down by cancelling the lost 10i millions. An auction sale of lea=es of sections in the Federal capital of Canberra realised £10,580. Banks and insurance companies paid high figures for picked positions. The values realised were generally considerably above the upset prices. TIIIO COWABD. Benson (bashfully) : -May I—cr—kiss your baby sister? Alice (in disgust): Oh, I suppose so—if you are too cowardly lo tackle ."..eirl nearer your own size.