June 2, 1915
The Liverpool F.C. balance sheet, given below, shows expenditure of £10,875 (which includes’ players’ wages £5,569) and an income of £10,917 11s 2d (including gate receipts £9,104 6s 8d and cup ties £874 19s 2s). A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. was recommended.
Profit and loss account for year ending April 30, 1915.
Signed on behalf of the Board,
John Asbury,
William Robert Williams, Directors.
A sum of £241 18s not included in the accounts was realised on behalf of the Prince of Wales’ War Fund from practice games, and duly paid over to the treasurer of the fund.
This report is being posted to the shareholders to-day.
(Source: Liverpool Echo: June 2, 1915; via http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) © 2018 Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited
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