It is frequently stated that retail shopkeepers pay wholesale merchants 4¼d. per lb. for sugar, and the retail price is fixed nt 4½d. If that were the case it would ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON. November [?].—The annual report of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co. discloses a profit of £250, 373. [?] this the contingency fund absorbs [?] and [?] ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsHeavy supplies of form produce were again available at the Roma-street markets yesterday, Luce[?]e chaff was poorly represented, and £15 per ton was ...
Article : 841 wordsOf the Sydney and Melbourne markets, Prescott Ltd. report under date Sydney, November 10:— Sydney.—The market is unaltered at ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation, Ltd., of Sydney, bas declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. p.a., payable on December 3. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is announced that on November 6 the directors allotted 54,840 fully paid ordinary shares of [?]i to shareholders as a bonus, in the proportion of one new share for each ...
Article : 86 wordsA circular has been issued by Hume Pipe Co. (Australia), Ltd., to share holders, inviting them to subscribe to company with £500,000 capital in 450 000 ...
Article : 347 wordsThe insurance, companies in Vi[?]oria have decided to pay out in respe[?] to damage to shops and pillage of [?] during the recent Melbourne riots where ...
Article : 607 wordsA scarcity existed yesterday of prime vegetables and for the [?]uality available high prices ruled. New season's pumpkins realised very high prices. Only ...
Article : 179 wordsThe following prices were realised at the fish market yesterday:—4 o'clock sale: Mullet, 10/6 to 15/; bream, 6/ to 17/3; whiting, 19/ to 23/6. 10 a.m. sale: Mullet, ...
Article : 49 wordsAbout 31,500 fat sheep were yarded at Flemington to-day, mostly good and prime qualities. The market opened unchanged, but towards the close the demand was dull ...
Article : 172 wordsQuotations:—Hens, 3/6 to 6/l per pair; roosters. 7/ to 9/9; cockerels, 2/6 to 5/; ducks, English 4/ to 4/6, Muscovy 7/ to [?]; drakes, 8/6 to 13/3; geese, 9/ to ...
Article : 812 wordsA Canadian Government bond issue authorised at 5l, 000,000 dollars about the middle of September was extended to 172,000,000 dollars,and the ultimate ...
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Advertising : 1,021 wordsAn English anthority, discussing sugar prospects on September 22, said:—"There is every indication of an appreciable advance in sugar during the next month ...
Article : 163 wordsThe report of this important Sydney brewery company for the year to September 30 shows profits at £293,372, compared with £235,174 in the previous year. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Esecutor, Truste[?] and Agency Co. of South Australia re[?] that for the year ended September 30 a net profit of £10,075 was earned. A dividend of 12 ...
Article : 54 wordsFor some time a scarcity has existed of primp bananas, and when anything possessing quality appears on the market buyers are prepared to pay high prices. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe "agitation against allowing Vestey Bros., Ltd., to extend their sphere of inf[?]uence to New Zealand has, says the "Argus," led to a determined effort to ...
Article : 164 wordsOnly moderate supplies of bananas were available yesterday and a good demand existed for quality fruit. A special line of the Cavendish variety from the North ...
Article : 816 wordsLONDON, November 13.—The subscription list for the Southland (N.Z.) Eletricity Board's dehentures closed at 10.30 o'clock this morning. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, November 12.—The market for wheat cargoes is apathetic, and there is no inquiry. Quotations are only maintained owing to the American exchange. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe most important item of news in connection with dairy produ[?] the failure of the New South Wa[?]es factories to accept the butter stabilisation scheme. ...
Article : 325 wordsThe draw for the Enoggera stock sales to-day is as follows; the figures in parentheses denote the number of owners who have [?] warded stodk:— ...
Article : 224 wordsTOOWOOMBA, November 13.—Dalgety and Co. held stock sales at the Toowoomba yards to-day. There were 400 cattle, 170 fat sheep, and [?] pigs yarded. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 14 Nov 1923, Page 4
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