RAW MATERIALS MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 10

RAW MATERIALS MARKETS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 4. Friday's closing prices for the following raw materials were as follows, those for October 27 being in parentheses:— ' Cotton: ' Liverpool quotation, good American middling, spot, 5.43 d a lb (5.54 d); December delivery, 5.22 d a lb

(5.36 d). ■ Rubber: Para, 4 3-8 d a lb (unchanged); plantation smoked ribbed sheet, 3 21-32 d (3 29-32 d). ■ . . ' ■ Jute: November-December shipment, Indian jute, Dundee quotation, £.14 8s 9d a ton (£ls 2s Cd). - Copra: November-December shipment, South Sea, £9 10s a ton (£9); plantation, Eabaul,i £9 15s a ton (£9 2s Gd). Linseed oil: £20 10s a ton (£l9 15s). Turpentine: 43b 3d a cwt. (445). Osmiridium: Unchanged.

The Argentine Chamber has passed a law constituting as national property all petroleum wells in Argentina: Dr. W G. Fern, addressing works directors and managers at Oxford recently, said that advertising in the British newspapers had proved that "it is possible to build up amazing records unmatched in any other country. Newspapers are the finest selling agencies today." In England and Wales the total area of orchards now comprise 249,400 acres, while 59,800 acres are do voted to the cultivation of small fruits. This represents an increase over the figures for the previous year, the counties of Kent and Essex being mainly, concerned,