AUSTRALIAN NEWS
COAL CONTRACTS,
(Australian Press Association )
(Received this day at 9.25 a m) SYDNEY, April 1
Heavy contracts for coal carriage were lodged with the Railway Department by colliery owners yesterday, 'to obtain the benefit of the eighteenpence concession on freight which the State Government has now discontinued as from to-day. During tho existence of the concession shipments of coal from Newcastle increased steadily. The .discontinuance |of the allowance menus the addition of a thousand poundjs weakly to tho cost of coal obtained by Victoria,
A DIVIDEND. BRISBANE, April 1. Liquidators of the Primary Producers Bank of Australia intend to distribute on 30th. May a- cash dividend of five shillings in the pound on admitted claims. Over twenty thousand claims are involved throughout the Commonwealth.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1932, Page 5
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