Sir,—As a primary producer, I have been interested in the various letters appearing in recent issues of the "Sydney Morning Herald" regarding cheap fruit, and I venture ...
Article : 478 wordsAustralian borrowing in relation to its fiscal system is discussed in an article in a recent number of the "Statist." Generally the article is sympathetic, and the writer ...
Article : 841 wordsA slackening was noticeable in the volume of investment business yesterday, buying orders coming to hand less freely. Prices, in consequence, lost their upward swing to ...
Article : 742 wordsImports of tea during December, 1927, according to the country of origin, as compared with the corresponding month in 1926, were as follow: ...
Article : 165 wordsAn abstract of average liabilities and assets of the undermentioned bank in its Australian business for the quarter ended December 31, 1927, prepared in accordance with the ...
Article : 183 wordsWheat, growers' lots 5/0½; flour, £13/2/6; bran, £6/15/; pollard, £7/7/6; oats, 3/6 to 3/7; chaff, £6 on trucks at Mile End (bags included); potatoes, 6/ to 7/; onions, 10/; pines, 18/ to 20/; bananas, 30/ to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsThough the turnover was very small, the mining share market was partly relieved of depression by a recovery in Barriers. As the slightest movement in the price of lead ...
Article : 559 wordsDemand for butter was definitely healthier among city dairy produce houses yesterday, buyers operating with more freedom since Thursday's price reduction. Cheese continued ...
Article : 787 wordsFollowing are the official London (middle) quotations for Thursday as received by the Australian Mines and Metals Association:- Ton. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following companies have been registered, shares being of the value of £1 each:- European Goods and Travellers' Luggage Insurance Company, Limited, capital £5000. ...
Article : 285 wordsTo-day's sales included:- Commonwealth Bonds, 5½ p.c. (1936), £100/17/6; Commercial Bank, rights, 7/; Bennett and Fisher, pref., 20/6; Goldsbrough, Mort, 47/7½; Adelaide ...
Article : 227 wordsThe wheat market was lifeless yesterday, with an absence of buying interest. Limits for growers' bagged lots were on the basis of 5/3 ex trucks, Sydney, equivalent to 4/7½ ...
Article : 144 wordsSir,—In your columns to-day I read the writing of "Periodontist" re above. It is more than passing strange how many professional men constantly keep straining at a goat and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 939 wordsFor the week ended January 28, the quantity of wheat despatched from country stations was 164,923 bags, making a total of 1,855,032 bags for the season. ...
Article : 245 wordsReturns of the Bank of England for the week ended February 1 are:—Gold and silver coln, £154,998,000, compared with £155,295,000 a week ago and £119,752,000 a year ago. The ...
Article : 567 wordsQuotations of shares of Australian mining companies to-day included:- B.H. Proprietary, 22/3; B.H. North, 79/0¾; B.H. South, 41/3; Hampden Cloncurry, 11/1½; ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,—Several eminent French navigators and explorers have visited Botany Bay and made records of their visit on the La Perouse memor[?]al. Would you allow me to suggest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsWheat cargoes remained quiet and unchanged to-day. Some Continental inquiry was forthcoming for La Platas. Parcels, in small demand, were occasionally ...
Article : 68 wordsDirectors of the Australian Radium Corporation, N.L., in their annual report, state that owing to non-payment of calls, sufficient money was not available to send the ...
Article : 151 wordsLittle of feature was manifest at the Bathurst-street fruit exchange, where business pursued a quiet trend. Plums were, if anything, slightly cheaper. A trainload of new ...
Article : 716 wordsSydney Ferries, Ltd., at the outset of its report for 1927, records with profound sorrow the disaster of November 3, when the outward-bound R.M.S. Tahiti collided with ...
Article : 365 wordsChicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 129½ cents per bushel (down [?] cent); May, 130 cents (down 1 cent); July, 127½ cents (down [?] cent). ...
Article : 32 wordsAustral Malay Tin, Ltd., (24) 1/ per share, payable February 25. Transfer books close February 17. Asam Kumbang Tin Dredging, Ltd. (24), 1/6 ...
Article : 35 wordsQuotations are for distributing lots. Acids: Borac[?]c, 67/[?] per cwt; carbolic, English, 92 per cent., in 5-gallon lots 6/6, in 10-gallon lots 6/4½, Australian, 5/6 per gallon; citric, 2/3; tartaric, 2/; ...
Article : 522 wordsSir,—According to rumours in circulation and reports in the Press. [?]t would appear that the Railway Commissioners have decided to make an alteration in the route of the ...
Article : 258 wordsTo-day's sales and quotations included:- Silver-lead.—Amalgamated Zinc, 11/10, [?] 11/9, s 11/10; Broken Hill Proprietary, b 23/3, s 23/6; Block 14, ord., b 2/1, s 2/6; ditto, pref., b 4/11; North ...
Article : 173 wordsMangrovite Belting, Ltd., in its half-yearly report shows a little better profit, £4097, after making provision for taxation, against £3779 the previous half year. Dividend of ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Buttenshaw) yesterday decided to recommend to the Cabinet the introduction of legislation to prevent the operation of unqualified ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,—It is pleasing to note that Mr. Lee, Minister for Justice, proposes to demand very drastic alterations in the sanitary arrangements as a condition of the renewal of ...
Article : 195 wordsDistributing trade in Eastern and miscellaneous produce has continued on steady lines, with no variation in prides. All seasonal commodities have been in demand. The ...
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Advertising : 205 wordsButter is receiving more inquiry. Retailers' stocks are becoming reduced, and the quantities arriving at present are moderate. Choicest salted New Zealand is selling at ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Sydney Wool-selling Brokers report:- Sheephills.—48,218 were catalogued. The usual buyers were present, and a very strong iquirv ruled for all descriptions at prices which were fully /0½ to /0½ ...
Article : 332 wordsImportant changes are taking place at the Salvation Army headquarters in Sydney. Lieutenant-Colonel Tindale is the new financial secretary, Colonel Fisher having had to ...
Article : 81 wordsA profit of £407 is shown by Goulburn Gas for the half-year. Dividend of 8 per cent. per annum takes £400, and with £115 brought forward, there is £122 carried forward. Sales ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 4 Feb 1928, Page 19
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