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Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 19

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DREDGE RETURNS. [Per United Press Association.] GREYMOUTH, September 12. The Argo dredge return was 98oz for 130 hours over 13,500yd5. The Maori Gully return was 220 z 9dwt for 197 hours. NEW GUINEA GOLD SHARES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 11. (Received September 12, at noon.) New Guinea Gold shares are quoted at 3a 9id. GILLESPIE’S BEACH’ RETURN. The secretaries of the Gillespie’s Beach Gold Dredging Co. Ltd. advise that the return for the week ended September 10 amounted to lOloz 12dwt for 130 hours’ dredging. The dredge is working at ithe beach end of the cut. 1 LO' Ti nON WOOL SALES. Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co. Ltd. in receipt of the following cablegram from their London agents, Messrs Sanderson, Murray, and Elder Ltd., dated the 9th inst.: —“The following vessels have arrived in time for the consignments of wool by them to be offered in the next series:—Wairangi, Waiwera, Mataroa.” BUTTER AND CHEESE^ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd., Dunedin, has received the following advice from London:—Dairy produce: New Zealand’ choicest salted butter, 109 sto 110 s per cwt. Cheese: White, 69s to 70s per cwt; coloured, 67s per cwt. Market slow. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET. The Bank of New Zealand has received the following advice from its London office;—Frozen meat; There is a steady trade in wethers at rather better values. Smaller supplies of ewes have caused prices to harden. The market has improved for first qualitv lambs, while seconds remain steady. Wethers: Light, 4id to sid per lb; heavy, 4d to 4id. Ewes, 3id to 4Jd. Lambs—twos, 7d to 7Jd; eights, 7d to 7Jd: fours, 6id to 6|d; seconds, 6Jd to 7d. SALES ON ’CHANGE : THIS DAY. Auckland. Commercial Bank, 18s 4d; Union Steam. 26s 3d; Bycroft, 41s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 435, 6d; Mount Morgan, 13s. Christchurch. —Union Bank of Australia, £9 10s 6d (2); Goldsbrough, Mort, 33s 9d, 33s Bd. 33s 7d: N.Z. Refrigerating (10s paid), 9s; Kaiapoi Woollens (17s paid, cum div.), 16s 9d; Kaiapoi Woollens (7s paid, cum div.), 6s 3d (3s); N.Z. > Breweries, 52s 3d (2), 52s 4d, 52s 3d (2); Tooth’s Brewery, 565; Amalgamated Wireless (con.), 40s; Dunlop Rubber (cum div.), 18s 2d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 43s 5d (2); Mort’s_ Dock, 11s lOd; Mount Lyell, 295. ’ Reported: E.S. and A. Bank, £5 18s; Goldsbrough, Mort (late sale yesterday), 345; Kaiapoi Woollens (17s paid, cum div.), 15s 9d (2); N.Z, Breweries, 52s 4d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 77s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary (late sale yesterday), 56s 9d (15s paid).