CANADA'S WHEAT CROP
(Received January 22, 9 a.m.)
•• .. OTTAWA, January 21. The new official estimate of Canada's 1939 wheat crop is 489,623,000 bushels, the second largest recorded.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES
fBy Telegraph—Press, Association—Copyright.) •LONDON, January 19. Today's closing rates '■■ for foreign exchanges In relation to~"sterllng: compare'"with tbose previously cabled as follows:— Par. Jan. 18. , Jan.19. New York— - Dols. to ■£' .. 4.866 4.03 4.03 Paris — •*:... e • Francs to £ '. 124.21 176% . 176% Geneva— ' > . ■ Francs ■ to >£ . 25.225 17.90 17.90 Amsterdam— Florins to £ . 12.797 7.555 7.555. ■Rome— .■■'■-... Lire.to £ ... .92 , 77.75 7* . / Brussels— ■ . ■ ' Belg. to £ ... 48.611 23.875 23.875 Stockholm— -;-■• Kr. to-£ ...r 24.43 16.90 16.90 Copenhagenr— Kr. to £ ' 18.150 20.37 20.43 . Oslo— - Kn to £ 18.159 17.70 17.70 Hong Kong— d. to dol — 14 15-16 14 15-16 Shanghai— , . d. to dol. .... — 4 13-16 413-16 Kobe— ■' ■ ■•id. to yen .. 24.582 14 19-64 14 15-16 Buenos Aires— ■ d. to peso .. 47.62 17.775 17.625 •. ■ ■ ■ The price of gold Is unchanged at 168s an ounce. . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 10
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153CANADA'S WHEAT CROP Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 10
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