COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 83, 8 April 1920, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

' . BRITISH TALLOW STOCKS. (UNITED FREES ASSOCIATION.-COPIRiaBT.) (AIISIBALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABIB ASSOCIA'/lON.} LONDON, 6th April. Tallow stocks amount to 10,086 casks. The imports during March were 3089 casks, and the. deliveries 2953 casks. LONDON STOCK QUOTATIONS. LONDON, 6th April. Waihi Grand Junction shares, 10s 7d; Bank of Australasia, £129; Bank of New South Wales, £33; Union Bank, £12 17s 6d; National Bank of New Zealand, £6 10s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, £65 10s. ', FOREIGN EXCHANGES. IMPROVEMENT IN STERLING IN NEW . '• 1 YO.RK. (DOTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIBHT.) (AUSTRALIAN ■ NETV^ ZEALAND. CABIH 'ASSOCIATION.) ' LONDON, 6th April. Foreign rates of exchange on London on-tha sth April compared with first Jialf of 1914 and last week's quotations are as follow:— ■ ■ ■ . July, 1014. April 1. April 6. Paris, francs 25.22$ .. 57.67 . 58.65 Stockholm, kron 18.24* 18.05 18.14 Christiania, kron.'.. 18.241 ' 20.05 19.93 Montreal, dols. .. 4.87| 4.24 i 4.36 New York, dols. .. 4.87J 3.90 4.02J Calcutta, pnc. to rupee 16d 28d 28Jd (On the 6th February the sterling exchange in New York was 3.35 dollars; on the 9th, 3.33} dollars; on the 16th, 3.30 dollars; on tha 23rd, 3.35J dollars; on 28th, 3.37J dollars; on 11th March, 3.78J dollars; on 18th March 3.72 dollars; on 25th March 3.85 dollars; on 29th March 3.02 dollars; on sth April 4.0J dollars. The value of the pound sterling is now steadily appreciating). .