Britain's Big Five Banks earned net profits of £9,406,376 last year and lent industry £844,000,000. In each case profits were somewhat ...
Article : 232 wordsMr. T. S. Wilson, the Adelaide registrar of the Great Boulder Proprietary Gold Mines, Ltd., has received a cablegram from the secretary of the company in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,128 wordsAfter hearing evidence for the prosecution in the Perth Police Court yester-day, Mr. H. D. Moseley, P.M., committed Joseph Levey (38), tobacconist, for trial ...
Article : 860 wordsDuring March, Hill 50, NL., treated 2,143 long tons for a return of 556 fine oz. for an approximate value of £5,139. Ora Banda, N.L. ...
Article : 71 wordsWorld wheat shipments last week were 1,260,000 quarters, of which 180,000 quarters went to the United Kingdom, 270,000 quarters to Europe, 390,000 ...
Article : 57 wordsLIVERPOOL, April 3.—Futures at the close of the morning session were Quoted as follows:—Old contracts: May, 4/4 3-16 a cental. New contracts: May, 4/2½; July, 4/4 1-8; ...
Article : 52 wordsMT. MAGNET, April 1.—From a few pounds of specimen ore, Messrs. T. 6. Robinson and F. J. Randall have obtained 73oz. 5dwt. of gold through the Berdan ...
Article : 197 wordsYesterday's offering of large fish was the best for some time. Further supplies are expected. The demand for all lines, especially large fish, was keen, owing to ...
Article : 117 wordsOnly two truckloads of f.a.q. wheat were submitted at yesterday's auction sales in the metropolitan railway yards. Both sold for 2/6. One came from Carani, Hb2362, and the ...
Article : 35 wordsMELBOURNE, April 3.—Strong recoveries in several leading industrials and base-metal shares was a feature of trading on the Stock Exchange today. Australian ...
Article : 496 wordsLocal prices for export wheat remained unchanged yesterday. At a Fremantle zone Government railway aiding. with a bagged wheat railway freight of 4d. a bushel, bagged wheat ...
Article : 58 wordsSelfridges (Australasia) Ltd. disclose a loss of £20,981, for the year ended January 31 which follows a loss of £21,273 for the previous year and a net profit of ...
Article : 105 wordsKALGOORLIE. April 3.—Producers' Markets, Co-operative, Ltd., report:— The markets will be closed all day on Good Friday and Easter Saturday. Growers ...
Article : 289 wordsFine gold was quoted in London yesterday at £7/18/ an ounce. The price on Saturday was £7/8/6. The price of sovereigns quoted ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Trustees of the Wheat Pool of Western Australia and the Westralian Farmers, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from London, dated April 1.—Australian ...
Article : 172 wordsThe 1938 medal of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy was awarded at the annual meeting of the institute at the University- of Melbourne ...
Article : 175 wordsBased on the "on demand" rates quoted yesterday by the Bank of New South Wales, the approximate value of the Australian pound in ...
Article : 62 wordsThe wool market has experienced its full share of vicissitudes during the past four years. Its level now is slightly above the rates ruling at this period of the ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the following table production of gold in Australia since 1903, the "peak" year, to 1938 is compared:— Pine Ozs. Value. ...
Article : 466 wordsADELAIDE, April 3.—Wheat, new season's, 2/ (Adelaide basis); old crop, 1/10½. Flour, £12/10/, including tax, Bran, £4/15. Pollard, £5. Oats, good feed Algerian, about ...
Article : 386 wordsAddressing shareholders at the annual meeting of Woolworths, Ltd. the chairman (Mr. C. S. Waine) said every branch of the company and all subsidiaries bad ...
Article : 138 wordsThe directors of Buiolo Gold Deposits, Ltd., and New Brown Hill, NL., have decided to place the companies in liquidation and to distribute the available cash to shareholders. ...
Article : 179 wordsGEELONG, April 3.—Some irregularity was noticed in the series of wool sales which opened here today. Demand was fairly consistent. Irregularity applying ...
Article : 125 wordsThe directors of Australian Iron and, Steel, Ltd., have declared a half yearly dividend of 7½ per cent per annum on preference shares, payable on May 1. ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, April 3.—The investment market today revealed a marked improvement, compared with the weakness apparent at the close of last week. ...
Article : 195 wordsMembers of the Armadale-Kelmscott Road Board yesterday spent the whole day inspecting roads which were recently surfaced with bitumen at Armadale, Roleystone and karraugullen, and others ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsAssociated Brokers (Dalgety and Co., Elder, Smith and Co., Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., and Westralian Farmers, report as follows for yesterday's sales at Fremantle:— ...
Article : 393 wordsThere were no changes in the price of chaff at yesterday's auction sales in the metropolitan railway yards. F.a.q. wheaten varieties sold for £4 and £4/5/ and were ...
Article : 148 wordsBUNBURY April 3.—Shirley Victoria Gibson (13), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gibson, of Stockley-road, Bunbury, died this afternoon from burns ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, April 3.—Australian mining shares were quietly firmer on the Stock Exchange today. Midday quotations were as follows:— Broken Hill Pty., 42/6; Wiluna, 8/6; Gold ...
Article : 28 wordsThere was a better demand for apples at yesterday's auction sales at the Metropolitan Markets, but there was no appreciable change in prices. Pears were ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Stock Exchange of Perth, and the exchanges in Melbourne and Adelaide will close for the customary period during the Easter holidays. After tomorrow, ...
Article : 88 wordsAUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENT, March 31.— Dish prospects about one ounce, two shafts. COPELAND, March 25.—North-east drive has been advanced 4ft, to 91ft. The reef is ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, April 1.—Paterson, Laing and Bruce, Ltd., merchants and ware-housemen, have decided to defer. payment of a dividend on the ...
Article : 33 wordsConnected with this year's Labour Day celebrations a sub-committee is in charge of the band contest. A substantial programme of musical and other tests will ...
Article : 88 wordsADELAIDE, April 3.—There was a generally brighter tone on the Stock Exchange today. Although operators maintained a cautious attitude, trading was ...
Article : 901 wordsThe State Arbitration Court yesterday gave its reserved decision upon an application by the Mayor and councillors of the municipality of Kalgoorlie for ...
Article : 328 wordsLONDON, April 1.—The following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods ...
Article : 443 wordsBUNBURY, April 3.—Raymond Edward Quigley (about 35), pleaded guilty in the Bunbury Police Court today to a charge of having stolen 42 bags of ...
Article : 239 wordsThere was a weaker trend in cabbage and cauliflowers, and turnips (which have recently held to good rates, owing to orders on behalf of the Japanese whaling ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsMagdalen Redwood yesterday petitioned Mr. Justice Dwyer, in the Supreme Court, for divorce from William Henry Redwood, on the ground of desertion. ...
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Advertising : 491 wordsHeavy supplies of apples were forward at the Fremantle Municipal Markets yesterday, with the majority of most lines selling at low rates. Values for pears ...
Article : 312 wordsLONDON. April 1.—Rabbits are idle. First Large quality are quoted at 17/6 a crate. ...
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