21 APRIL 1939, page 38

Company Meeting

MENDARIS (SUMATRA) RUBBER AND PRODUCE ESTATES A COMPACT UNIT THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT THE twenty-eighth ordinary general meeting of the Mendaris (Sumatra) Rubber & Produce Estates,......

Wholesale Chemists' Results

P. H. Galloway, the wholesale chemists and hairdressers. showed a decreased profit of £19,567 for 1938, against £23,098 in 1937, but the chairman, Mr. J. E. Gallaway, had no......

Diamond Profits Fail

It occasions no special surprise that De Beers Consolidated Mines should have experienced a sharp setback in 1938. The diamond trade is obviously vulnerable to trade depression,......

Financial Notes Rio Tinto Company's Better Earnings The...

Company's Spanish properties fell to General Franco in the early days of the Spanish War. Since then the company's troubles have been requisitions and exchange restrictions, the......

Eagle Star Progress

Sir Edward Mountain, in his review of the results of the Eagle Star Insurance Company last week, reported on two matters especially favourable to the company. The expense ratio......

Norwich Union's Foreign Interests

The Norwich Union Life Insurance Society was one of the pioneers of life assurance in the foreign field, but at the meeting on Tuesday Mr. Ernest Hicks had regretfully to......