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Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 12

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FOREIGN EXCHANGES. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 15. (Received September 16, at 1.30 p.m.) The following are the mean closing rates;— Paris, franc to £1 76 15-64 New York, dollar to £1 5.06 j Montreal, dollar to £1 ... ... 5.06jr Brussels, be.lgas ■ to £1 29.10 j Geneva, francs to £1 Amsterdam, florin to £1 7.461 Milan (nominal), lire to £1 ... 64 3-16 Berlin, rcichsmarken lo £1 ... 12.59 Stockholm, kroner to £1 19.391 Copenhagen, kroner. to’£l 22 Oslo, kroner to £1 ... 19.90 Vienna, schillings to £1 26J Prague, kroner to £1 Helsingfors, marks to £1 227. Madrid, pesetas to £1 50.55 Lisbon, escudo to £1 HO 3-16 ■“Athens, drachmae to £1 531 “Bucharest, lei to £1 678 Belgrade, dinars to £1 ... ... 221 Warsaw, zlotys to £1 26.87 “Rio de Janeiro, pence to milreis 41 Buenos Aires, pence to dollar ... 36 “Montevideo, pence to dollar ... 38 9-16 Bombay, pence to rupee 181 Shanghai, pence to dollar 14| Hongkong, pence to dollar ...■ 1413-16 Yokohama, pence to yen 14 3-64 Batavia, florin to £1 ... 7.421 “Sellers. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 16. (Received September 16, at 2 p.m.) Bonds: 3| per cent. 1949, £95 10s; 4 per cent. 1938, £lO2 11s 3d; 1941, £lO2 10s; 1944, £lO3 ss; .1950, £lOl 12s 6d; 1955, £lOl 2s 6d; 1957, £lOl 12s 6d; 1961, £IOO 12s 6d. Shares: Bank of Now South Wales, £33 ss; Anthony Hordern, 19s 3d; Associated News, 22s 7jd ; British Tobacco, 43s 3d ; Broken Hill Proprietary, 78s 3d; new, 58s; Colonial Sugar, £43 7s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 18s 3d; Electrolytic Zinc, 43s 6d; G. J. Coles, 83s; Mark Foy. 33s 3d; Woolworths (second pref.), 25s 9d. . SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Christchurch.—4 per cent. Inscribed Stock (1937-40), £lOl ' 15s; Goldsbrough, Mort, 345; Tooth’s. Brewery, 55s 9d; Colonial Sugar, £43 2s 6d; Duplop Rubber (cum div.), 18s (8); G. J. Coles (cum rights), 82s 6d; Hume Pipe (Australian, cum div.), 19s 7d; Worksop Extended, Is lOd; Mount Lyell, 29s 2d (2) ; Mount Morgan, 12s lid, 12s 10id', and 12s lOd. Reported; Bank-of New South Wales, £32 15s; Claude Neon ' (Sydney), £sl ss; New Zealand Co-operative (4i per cent stock, 1940; late sale yesterday), £9l 10s. Unlisted: Woolworths (Sydney, ord.), £5 9s 6d (2). Wellington.—Broken Hill, £3 17s 6d; Consolidated Brick, 9s 6d and 9s sd; Colonial Sugar, £43 2s 6d; Goldsbrough, Mort, 34s 6d; Oamaru Woollen, 21s 6d; Dunlop, 18s Id; Woolworths (New Zealand), 51s' 6d; G. J. Coles, 82s 6d. Auckland.—Farmers’ Trading (A pref.), 225; Wilson’s Cement, 3fis‘ld; Woolworths (New Zealand), £5; Mount Morgan,’ 12s lid. Bonds: 1952-55; 4 per cent., £lO5 15s; Devonport, 1938, 4J per cent.. £*loo 17s 6d. Noon call: Dominion Breweries, 31s 6d: Australian Glass, 93s 9d; G. J. Coles, 82s 6d.