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TBE COAL STRIKE
EFFECT ON THE PRICE OF GAS
Increase in Melbourne Fore-
shadowed
MELBOURNE, Saturday.
The chairman of directors of the
Metropolitan Gas Comjany (Sir John
Grice) announced at the shareholders'
half-yearly meeting to-day that th?
price of gas would be increased In the
near future. "We could have put the
price up in the first week of the strike
on the New South Wales coalfields,"
he said, "but at the time we did not
anticipate that the strike would last
long."
A dividend of 6/6 a share was de-
clared out of the profits for the half
year et ded June 30 This represents a
dividend of IS per ce&t. per annum,
compared with IE per cent, per annum
paid previously
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