19 MAY 1939, page 48

Financial Notes

FOUR MONTHS' TRADE THE Overseas Trade Returns for April suggest two general conclusions : the volume of both imports and exports is con- tinuing to shrink ; as the shrinkage is......

Kepong (malay) Rubber

Many rubber companies have continued to produce at a rate substantially above their current quotas and to allow stocks to pile up on the estates. This method has the advantage......

Licences And General Insurance

Among those life-insurancr. offices which have shown con- tinuous progress through the difficult times of 1938 must be counted the Licences and General Insurance Company. The......

Venturers' Corner There Has Been A Significant Rise In...

weeks in the 5s. ordinary shares of Richardsons Westgarth and Co., the Tyneside firm of marine engineers. Early this year the quotation was down to is. 6d., but it has now......

London And Manchester Assurance

Mr. A. H. Dawes, chairman of the London and Manchester Assurance Company, announced at the meeting on Wednesday that the actuarial valuation of the company's industrial branch......

Liverpool London And Globe

" A distinctly successful year" was the description bestowed upon 1938 by Mr. A. Kentish Barnes, who presided at Wed- nesday's meeting of the Liverpool London and Globe Insur-......