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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 8

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LONDON SHARE MARKET (Rdcd This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. Shares quotations are: —Clutha River Co., buyers, Is 7Jd; sellers, Is lOJd; Molyneaux River, buyers, lOJd; sellers Is lidLONDON EXCHANGE RATES. (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. Gold is quoted at £7 0s Old an ounce. Exchange—New York, 4.96 7-8 dollars; Paris, 160| francs; Batavia, 89.5 guilders. Antwerp futures are quiet. May, July and October deliveries are quoted at 23 3-Bd. AUCKLAND AUCKLAND, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: —River Plate, Ils; Farmers’ Trading B pref., 21s 6d, Milne and Choyce (deb stock), 15s 6d; N.Z. Refrigerated 18s 3d; Woolworths (holding), 15s 6d; 15s 5d inscribed stock, January 15, 1953-57, £9B 10s; Perpetual Forests, 44s 9d. Stock Exchange sales: —South British 44s 9d; New Zealand Breweries, 44s 6d; British Tobacco, 47s 3d; Broken Hill Propriety, 59s 9d; Taranaki Oil, 6s 3d; inscribed stock, Nov., 1938/52, £lO3 7s 6d; Amalgamated Brick, Wellington, £9O. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning call: —Bank of New Zealand, £2 3s sd; Wellington Woollen, ordinary, £5 ss; Broken Hill, £2 19s 9d; Taranaki Oil, 6s 2d (two sales). Sales were reported of 31 per cent Stock, 1938-52, £lO3 7s 6d; National Bank of New Zealand shares at £2 14s lid. Noon call:—Bank of N.Z. (D long term), 29s 6d, 29s 3d; Colonial Sugar, CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: —E.S. and A. Bank, £5; Dalgety and Co., £8 7s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, 44s (2); British Tobacco, 47s 3d; Broken Hill Propty., 56s 6d (2); Electro Zinc (pref), 44s 3d and 44s Id; Woolworths (Sydney ord), 21s 9d (3); Broken Hill South, 30s; North Broken Hill 447 s (2). DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, This Day. Stock Exchange sales —3 per cent stock, 1936-41, £97 15s; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 19s 9d; Woolworths Ltd., £2 2s lOd (cum div-ex bonus); N.Z. Breweries, £2 4s 3d; Mount Lyell, £1 7s 6d (3); Gillespies'Beach, 9d. BUTTER MARKET FIRMER TONE REPORTED. (Recd This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. The butter market is firmer. Choicest salted Australian and New Zealand is quoted at 118 s, unsalted New Zealand 112 s, and Australian 120 s.