6 AUGUST 1927, page 28

A Flourishing Publishing Business.

The publishing business of Messrs. Benn Brothers, Limited, would seem to be flourishing and just recently proposals have been made to the shareholders for an increase in the......

The Meeting Of The Tanganyika Concessions Company, Of...

Report will be found elsewhere, has an interest which extends much farther than the mere body of shareholders, as the story unfolded by the Chairman, Sir Reginald Wingate, and......

Motor Boats.

The occasions are few when our leading shipping magnates at the annual meetings of undertakings in which they are concerned fail to emphasize the attributes of the motor boat,......

The Latest Annual Accounts Of The Victoria Falls And Trans.

vaal Power Company show a continued expansion in pmfits, The dividend rose from 14 to 15 per cent., while the profit was £371,000 against £364,000, after meeting all expenses......

Financial Notes

MARKETS QUIETLY CHEERFUL. WE have now reached the period of the year when business on the Stock Exchange is popularly supposed to be non- existent. The financial magnates arc......

Holders Of Rubber Shares Must Be Bewildered And, Perhaps...

the persistent fall in values has killed the sense of humour—somewhat amused by the sudden change in the winds of opinion blowing across the Atlantic. For a twelve- month now......

A Family Charter.

Tile Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society has devised an interesting scheme which it describes as the Family Charter. Under this scheme it is possible for . a......

Finance—public And Private

Should Railway Stocks be Bought ? ON more than one occasion I have written in these columns somewhat disparagingly of English railway securities from the standpoint of the......

Shareholders Of Brewery Concerns Seem To Have Become Sd...

to a never-ending expansion in profits that following the announcement by Watney Combe Reid and Co. of a dividend making the distribution on the Deferred Stock the same as the......