18 MARCH 1938, Page 42

DURBAN DEEP REPORT.

The full accounts of Durban Roodepoort Deep, a pro- gressive undertaking on the Western Rand, show that the company has fully justified the issue of 400,000 additional los. shares made last year. The net profit for 1937, after taxation, increased by £56,534 to £269,239. The dividends for the year already announced amounted to 25 per cent. against 221 per cent. Working costs per ton milled have once again been reduced and amounted to 22S: 2d., a decline of Is. rid. per ton. The working profit per ton milled rose to 6s. 3d., an increase of is. id. •