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Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 12

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PRICE OF GOLD. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23, at noon.) Fine gold is quoted at £6 17s 44d an ounce. DOLLAR AND FRANC. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23, at noon.) The dollar is quoted at 5.06 3-8, and the franc at 76 15-16. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23, at 11 a.m.) Bank of Australasia, £9 ss; E.S. and A.‘Bank, 88s 9d; .Union Bank of Australia, £6 18s 9d: Bank of New South Wales, £26 ss; National Bank of New Zealand, 48s 6d; Bank of New Zealand, 35s 6d; British Tobacco, 33s ljd; Goldsbrough, Mort., 25s 6d; Dalgety, £37 ss; P. and 0. Deferred, 25s 10id; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 4 per cent. Debentures, £B9 10s, ordinary £24 10s., HAMILTON FARMERS’ CO-OP. INCREASED PROFIT. [Specul to the ‘ Star.’] AUCKLAND, September 23. The Farmers’ Co-oip. Auct, Co., with headquarters at Hamilton and a paid capital of £479,953, shows net profits for the year ended July 31 at £42,526, compared with £33,389 on the previous year. The directors recommend raising the ordinary dividend from 4 to 4J per cent. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 23. (Received September 23, at 2 p.m.) Bonds: 3| per cent., 1949, £95 ss; 3i per cent., 1943, £9S ss; 4 per cent., 1944, £lO2 17s 6d; 4 per cent., 1947, £101; 4 per cent., 1950, £lOl 13s 9d; 4 per cent., 1953, £lOl 11s 3d; 4 per cent., 1955, £lOl 12s 6d; 4 per cent 1957, £lO2 2s 6d; 4 per cent., 1961, £IOO 15s. Shares: Anthony Hordern, 18s 10Jd (pref.), 23s 3d; (British Tobacco, 445; Broken H»1 Proprietary, 76s 6d; Burns, Philip, 72s 3d; Dunlop Perdriau, • TBs- 7*d r Electrolytic Zinc, 44s 9d (pref.), 465; James Stedman. 17s; Peters, 41s 6d. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 22. (Received September 23, at 1.30 p.m.) The following are the mean closing rates: — Paris, franc to £1 New York, dollar to £1 5.0613-16 Montreal, dollar to £1 5.064 Brussels, belgas to £1 30.60 Geneva, francs to £1 15.551 Amsterdam, florin to £1 7.48} Milan (nominal), lire to £1 ... 64 9-16 Berlin, reichsmarken to £1 ... 12.62 Stockholm, kroner to £1 Copenhagen, kroner to £1 22 Oslo, kroner to £1 1“-™ Vienna, schillings to £1 26} Prague, kroner to £1 vyj Helsingfors, marks to £1 22* . Madrid, pesetas to £1 Lisbon, escudo to £1 MO 3-16 ♦Athens, drachmae to £1 532 ♦Bucharest, lei to £1 ... 678 Belgrade, dinars to £1 221 Warsaw, zlotys to £1 ... 26.87 *Rio da Janeiro, pence to milreis 4} Buenos Aires, pence to dollar ... 36 ♦Montevideo, pence to dollar ... 38 9-16 Bombay, pence to rupee 184 Shanghai, pence to dollar 14 5-16 Hongkong, pence to dollar ... 14 27-32 Yokohama, pence to yen 141-32 Batavia, florin to £1 7.43 ♦Sellers. SALES ON .CHANGE: THIS DAY. Christchurch.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 18s 3d (2); Standard Insurance, 60s 6d; Amalgamated Wireless (cont.), 39s 9d; Dunlop Rubber (cum div.), 18s 4d (2); Mount Morgan, 13s Id (2); Upper Watut, 3s. Reported: Electrolytic Zinc (prer.), 45s 6d. Unlisted: White’s Electric, 9d; Woolworths (Sydney, ord.), £5 6s 3d and Wellington.—Coles, 82s 9d and 82s 6d; Woolworths (New Zealand), £5 Is; Mount Morgan, 13s Id; Electro Zinc, 44s ; Tooth’s, 56s 6d. Auckland.—Mount Morgan, 13s 2d; Mount Lyell, 29s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc, 455; (Broken Hill, 75s 6d; South British, 89s 3d; Commercial Bank (pref), £9. Noon call: British Tobacco, 43s 3d; Broken Hill (rights), 2s (2), and 2s Id; Electrolytic Zinc (pref), 455; New Zealand Refrigerating (con), 9s 3d; Bonds, 4 p.c. (1952-55), £lO5 15s- Stock, 4 p.c. (1940), £lOl 15s, 4 p.c. (1955), £lO5 -ss; Newmarket, £lO4 7s 6d*