A deputation representative of the Jewellery trade of New South Wales, in fact of Australia, waited upon the Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) yesterday, and asked for the passage ...
Article : 416 wordsOn light business the mining share market yesterday developed a firmer footing, to which steadier metal quotations were helpful. Barriers were stronger. Souths rose /9 at 49/, ...
Article : 648 wordsThe effect of the stringent financial position on the investment market was shown in depressed conditions yesterday. There was [?] disposition to trade, as seen in a scanty ...
Article : 508 wordsArrowroot in l's 9/, in ½'s 4/9 per doren, standard local line, in 1's 11/, in ½'s 5/7½. Barley, pearl, in sacks, 17/, 5's 17/6 per cwt. Beans and peas: Beans, haricot, 12/6 per bushel, to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsAt the International Fair to be held at Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia, this year from August 25 to September 2, all phases of industrial activity will be represented, and will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsWheat steady, growers' lots 4/6 to 4/6½, parcels 4/11 in trucks, 4/11½ f.o.b. outports; flour, export trade quiet, local steady, £12 bakers' lots; bran £6/10/; pollard, £7/5/, ex mill; foodsuffs, better tone owing ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:- Tallow: At yesterday's auctions 3[?]8 casks were catalogued. An irregular market ruled, and values on the average were about 10/ per ton below last ...
Article : 209 wordsExchange Paris on London was quoted on Wednesday, our London correspondent cables, at 73.55 francs to £1, compared with 78.15 francs on Tuesday. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe rivalry between Bankstown and Canterbury in the establishment of a district hospital was again mentioned before the Minister of Health (Mr. Oakes) yesterday by a ...
Article : 249 wordsQueensland Pastoral Supplies, Limited, writes, by its managing director, in regard to the dumping duty on wire netting, and the, plea that the duty was imposed because the ...
Article : 143 wordsOn the Stock Exchange to-day, [?] shares sold at 24/3 to 24/4½; North B. H. 69/4½; Mount Elliott, 5/6; Great Boulder, 2/; Ivanhoe Gold Corporation, 11/3; Hampton Properties, 3/9; and Sons of ...
Article : 50 wordsWheat was again a very dull market. No sales could be traced, but owners of storage wheat showed more disposition to sell at prices current for parcels, that is on the ...
Article : 172 wordsA yield of 25 tons of black tin is reported from the Briseis tin mine for the month of April. According to the mine manager's report for last week, the north drive off No. 2 tunnel at the Crown ...
Article : 184 wordsQuietly good business was done by city daily produce houses yesterday. All prices were unchanged. Though cheese quotations were still in dispute, either side insisting that ...
Article : 1,724 wordsThe wholesale prices of meat delivered at retail butchers' shops from Pyrmont Meat Depot on May 15 were as follow.- Beef: Ox bodies, /2½ to /3¼ per lb, maximum price ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 458 wordsMr. R. F. Strachan replies in part:- Sir,—The most convincing method of refuting misstatements is by correcting them. Mr. H. W. Meggitt's letter is disappointing even in the respect. In Great ...
Article : 713 wordsThere was a penning yesterday at the Homebush stock bales of about 25,OOO sheep and lumbs. The quality was an improvement upon late pennings. All classes of sheep were represented in the offering. Merinos were ...
Article : 3,858 wordsOur Perth correspondent telegraphs that the [?] May Central G.M. Co: has taken an option on the Munarra mine at Mistletoe, near Meekatharra. The owners have obtained about lOOOoz from pockets in ...
Article : 41 wordsIn order to provide funds to complete the equipment of the mine, the directors of the Vimy Ridge Gold-mining Company, N.L., have decided upon a debenture issue of £500. A circular to shareholders, ...
Article : 177 wordsFor the week ending May 10, 1924, the quantity of wheat despatched from country stations was 178,917 bags, making a total of 5,641,000 bags despatched since the season commenced. ...
Article : 513 wordsThe Society of Graphic Art, which adopts for its motto the truthful dictum, "Drawing stands for Honesty in Art," has forwarded a collection of e[?]chings, woodcuts, charcoal ...
Article : 364 wordsA report from the Mount Isa Proprietary Company's leases is as follows:—Even Break: Started the shaft, and breaking ore in the new ore body. Out on Her Own: Continues to look well, and we have a paddock ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsMany years have elapsed since so many people were to be seen at Yatwal, as the number which collected there yesterday to witness the opening by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Fitzpatrick) of a new battery and ...
Article : 256 wordsThe subscribed and paid-up capital of the Western Australian Bank is £378,00O, and there is a reserve fund of £813,000. Hence, though the dividend and bonus is at the rate ...
Article : 146 wordsTo-day's sales included:- Copper: Mount Lyell, rights, 5/9 (odds), 5/10 (odds). Oil: Freney, kimberley, 8/ (50); Okes, Durack, 5/2. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe hon. secretary of the Sydney branch of the Save the Children Fund has received a communication from the private secretary of his Excellency Sir Dudley do Chalr, to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsDetails were published last week of the proposed reconstruction of Australian Gypsum, Ltd., with a capital of £300,540, or two and a half times that the present ...
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Advertising : 291 wordsCargoes are quiet and nominally unchanged. Parcels are firm and sold to Hull, ex Sophocles, at 47/1½ and 47/3 per quarter (Sydney, April 1). ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the London wool sales there was a better general tendency, and prices were firm. Prices realised for individual clips were as follow:- Colac, /38; Rhodes, /40. ...
Article : 141 wordsTo-day's sales included:—Commonwealth Bonds, 4½ per cent. (1925), £98/2/6; 4½ per cent. (1927), £97/15/; [?] per cent. (1927), £97, £96/17/6; 5 per cent. (1928), £95/5/; 6 per cent. (1930), £101/12/6, £101/10. ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Minister for Lands has approved of the application of the Randwick Council to sublet tho special leases at Coogee for a pier site to an approved company. The Minister ...
Article : 58 words"W. J. H." writes complaining of a road in the Ryde municipal area which, he says, is the worst in any Sydney suburb. The road is known as Beach-street, Tonnyson, and the ...
Article : 150 wordsThe following companies have decided to wind up voluntarily:- I.X.L. Timber Company, Ltd.; H. W. Chancellor, liquidator. The Waterside Lighterage ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Italian Day commemoration will be officially celebrated this year at the Australian Hall (formerly Concordia) in the evening of Thursday, June 5, under the patronage of the ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the pearlshell sales 665 packages of Queensland were offered and 480 were sold. A. A. and A. were about 20/ per cwt. dearer than in March, B.C. was practically unchanged, ...
Article : 303 wordsMr. Bryant, secretary of the Australasian Society of Engineers, replying to statements made at a recent meeting of the Business Men's Efficiency League by the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe 37th annual meeting of shareholders of the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd., was held yesterday. Mr. John J. Garvan, managing director, who presided, in moving ...
Article : 321 wordsBusiness in Eastern produce continues steady, but there is a disposition to buy carefully. This tendency is more characteristic of country than city clients of wholesale ...
Article : 399 wordsMosman Council has decided to close the local pound in Rosebery-street, and to dispose of the land. It was stated at a meeting of the council that the pound was very seldom ...
Article : 106 wordsAfter an inspection of the coke works at the Newcastle Steelworks and the Purified coal and coke works, Wall[?], the members of the Coke industry Special Tribunal ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 16 May 1924, Page 11
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