LATE COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 December 1913, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL.

EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE.

' Messrs : l>algety ■ and" Co., Ltd., Mastertoh, report .having held "their usual fortniglitly.sale at Eketphuna On Friday, the : sth inst, when there: was only affair- yarding . of■■.stock,;,, wlriclv" realised- '^o ; :followingjprjjres.: Mixed, weavers 21s„ yearling heifers; [ £'2, I(EJs : yearling steers £3i&s,., medium\2-?ear. omitfj; heifers' £s:.(fc;' t . 2-yeai-" £6A 6e, fat: cows-'£s ss. - ,-"»' 'vf/: , . The -New Zealand' Loan and >Merca% ; .tilo, Agenjcy "€6,, Ltd*v ;V|port^^t; ; -Ei«MnnW *lmMs% s£;'■ 'small dr<sheep, but a- good on 6 of icattief ' .ratljer •• &,<smaA\ei%.dtix!ndarite : than ■ usiiaL was; not partjpu- , larly' clean, but we made almost a|t<>- < tall clearance under {lie hammer- at k the following rates: Forward shorn! ewes 13s lOd, shorn mixed 2-tooths 13s 4d; small wrtolly hoggets 14s, empty heifers £3 Is, yearling heifers £2 Bs, small yearling steers, £2 3s, bulls £2 Is to £3 18s.

N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COY. ■■', .;.'■

(Bit TiUgraph.—Trm Auociatym,.} WEtLINaTON, EasrNlglit. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co-.* Ltd., has rcseiv> \ ed a cable from ita London office, advising that the company will hold it.* annual mooting in London on December, 18th. After writing off bad debfcs and customary replacement*, and also writing £20,000 of f premises, providing a further £SOOO, towards the ■staff benevolent fund, and carrying £20,000 to the reserve fund from profits (making a total reserve of £276,878), the directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 5 per cent, poi- annum on cumulative preference shares, half of which was paid in July last. A dividend oif 5 per cent, is also recommended on ordinary shares and on instalments of the call under the present scheme, and 1£14>238 IBs is to bo carried forward.