WARING'S PROFITS.
Among the industrial trading concerns which have made remarkable progress in recent years is Waring and Gillow, Limited. For last year the profits amounted to about £220,000, as compared with £192,000 a year ago. A good balance had been brought in, so that after paying the debenture interest there was a total amount available of £293,343. The directors are paying a 10 per cent. dividend on the Ordinary, carrying forward £148,000. The firm has secured specially large foreign contracts, representing a total of about £750,000, one of which is concerned with the decora- tion and furnishing of the new Parliament House of a Foreign State. * * *