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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1599, 16 November 1912, Page 8

. . , D ALGETY AND CO., LTD. Tho New Zealand. Superintendent of Messrs. '.Dalgety and Company, Limited, has .received a cable message from London '.tovtlie effect that the annual meeting; of .the company was held in London on Thursday, anxi was in every way most ■ eatiF,factory. A dividend of 4s, per share has tven declared; being at the rate of 8 per', cent, per annum, and making,'with the interim', dividend already declaTod and paid, 8 per cent, for the year ended Jiume 30. Dividend will ba paid to shareholders on the colonial-register on and, after November 27. A aum •of '.£60.0(10. has been Slaced to reserve fund, which row s'.and3 at £500,000! £10,000 jhaV„been' transferred to staff benevolonfc' fund';>.£4o,ooo has -been written off ..-freehold.*.premises';' the balance carried for-■ward:.-being £84,155. Mr. '-"Edmund T. Doiat, chndman.of the board : of directors, and manning director ■at London,;, has' announoed his resignation aa from'.Junov3o next, owing to advanced age. received with deep regret,., and erpfereioms of great appreciation for the servico3 rendered to the oompany -diipng" the past 28 years. Customs. duties, collected at the port of .Wellington lyosterday amounted to £1932 6a.' 2d. ' • . GRAIN AND PKOiDUOE. ' .■ Jtiy Toiegraph-Press Association.) , Christchurch, November 15. There haa been- a little more. inomiry locally for wheat, ijut no fresh business ia reported. It is ' anticipated that some of the smaller mjllenT'are now- beginning to reauiro further supplies, the larger ones, still being well stocked, . Goirton oats lia-vo been! in good demand, and a, number, of lines offered from -the ,A'Shburton .district, .-results- of the" -spring ! -threshing, llavo bCSn . taken at 2s, to fc. Id. at country stations-. Other kinds "of oats in demand. Oatsheaj chaff lias been a little firmer lately, due more . to, shortness of supplies than to any iiiipJovepient in demand. For the few remaining ■ lots of potatoes now offering,' .jivsccs arc irregular, and •ranee from fnfe .-to £9. At the former figure a fairly large . lino was purchased, but supplies m growers' hands arc now almost exhaiuisted, and the demand is limited; in consodu'enco of tho new season's crop now coining .-'en- the market in increasing quantities. V/(jßi|iuN,. BANK RATE, By-Toie2r?,:)lH;Pr6ss Association—Conyrfuht-, ■ ■ London, Novembor 14. ' The .directors of the Imperial Ba.uk or(jfjijaiuiy **« ftwrl the rata of iMwtittM l kc eoaViaaia