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Rh 183 AO 500 ... 100 places. Against this let me give a few items from the Bombay Exchange List for June, 1919. Share Valas. Dividend. Original. Present. Abmedabad advance... 40 40 per cent. 500 ... 1,410 Kastaroband 500 ... 1,000 Mathradas ... 500 ... 1,100 Creeoent ... 100... 251 Madhowji ... ... 2,317 Fazalbhai ... 250 ... 840 Bombay Dyeing .. 250 ... 1,580 Central India ... 500 ... 2,610 Sholapar. ... 1,000 ... 9,500 Khatad ... ... 120, ...1,000 ... 3,700 The dividends do not indicate total nett profits ; large reserves are carried forward. Specimen Wages in Jute Mills:-- £. S. d. Carders ... 0 12 0 ) Rovers 0 16 0 Spinners ... 0 19 8 Shifters ... 0 14 8 Windere 1 40 per month. Beamers ... 1 94 Weavers ... 1 16 0 Viaistries ... 2 0 0 1 Coolies ... O 17 4 ) Wages are paid weekly, with one week in arroars. In 1916-17 there were seventy-one mills running with 39,404 looms, employing 260.199 persons, with a paid-up capital, including debentures, but excluding reserves, amounting to two and a quarter million pounds sterliog. The annual turnout is 1,000,000 tons of raw material. The annual average value of the jute trade to Bengal has been computed at £. 49,000,000 at pre-war rate of exchange. In this connection the following, OOA