12 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 40

SOME PROSPEROUS UNDERTAKINGS.

Quite number of satisfactory_ • reports have been issued during the past week, ome of them relating to comparatively new undertakings in their present form of public companies. The second annual report.of D. Gestetner, Ltd., showed that the net profit for the past year was 1151,871, as compared with £147,000 for the previous year, and even after adding 110,000 to income tax reserve, 120,000 to contingency reserve and £15,000 to the general reserve, the directors are able to pay a 25 per cent. dividend on th2 ordinary shares