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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 12

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EXPORT FAT LAMB KILLINGS START TO-DAY BUYING RATE INDICATED Killings of fat lamb for export commenced at the Kaiti freezing works to-day, but so far no _ schedule has been definitely announced. However, it appears as though the schedule will settle at 7Ad per lb. for prime Southdown and 7gd for prime crossbred. The opening rate last year, when killings commenced on November 15. was 85 d tip to 421 b. and 7 : !d for weights above 421 b. and for seconds. In the Waikato, the schedule is based on B>,d per lb. for prime Southdowns and 8d for prime crossbreds, the various rates being as follows: — Super Soulhdowns, 361 b. and under, 8.5 d; 87 to 421 b., B’d;8’d; 431 b: and over, /id: tegs, 7,5 a. Crossbred, 361 b. and under, 8d; 37 tv 421 b., IJ.A: 431 b. and over, 7Ad; tegs. Slid: seconds under 361 b., 7id; seconds over 361 b., 7d. Last year the opening schedule was based on BAd for super Southdowns, 361 b. and under.

SYDNEY EXCHANGE

SATURDAY’S SALES (Klro. 'l'd. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Nov. 11. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day included: Commonwealth Bonds, 4 per cent, 1941, £lO2 Is 3d: 4 per cent, 1961, £IOO 18s 9d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 14s 7d: Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, £lB 10s; Bank of New South Wales, £27; Anthony Hordern, 14s 10d: British Tobacco, £2 7s: Broken Hill Proprietary, il3 12s; Burns, Philp, £2 13s 3d.