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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9850, 31 October 1924, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

STOCKS AND SHARES

WELLINGTON, Get. 39. Reported sale of shares: Banu ol Australasia, £l3 5s.—P.A. WELLINGTON. Oct. 2P

Sales: Bank of Australasia, £l3 ssj Kauris 30s 6d. (Quotations: Buyers, Bank of New Zealand 3d; Rank of Australasia £l3 -Is; sillers. Union Bank £l4 12s'; Huddarts 43s Gd; Howard Smith 33s.—Special.

TEA MARKET. (Received Oct. 30, 5.5 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Oct. 29. At tlie- tea sales the quality generally was poorer compared with previous sales and the demand hardly so strong. The market was irregular. and inclined to he easier, and especially as to common kinds mid stalky sorts. Black leaf, orange pekoes and others showed an improvement and were keenly competed for. Binds were dearer and fanni’ags easier The average common leaf made thirteen annas three met to tbnicoi'. annas nine pice ; broken leaf LI annas 6 pice to 15 annas; oi dinary/common pekoe touching 13 annas 6 pice to 14 annas, the lowest; even leaf pekoe 15 annas 6 ytcc 10 15 annas 9 pice.—Renter.

NEW ZEALAND FPOZEN MEAT. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following,cablegram from tlieir London house under date October 24: Lamb, 12pi per lb (average); mut~ton, wether and maiden ewe, light Bpi per lb, heavy 7 7 pi per lb ;or c, light 6-gd per lb, heavy G-pl per lb; market steady.