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Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12

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FOREIGN EXCHANGES. {British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 13. (Received December 14, at noon.) Paris, franc to £1 83J Brussels, belgas to £1 23.644 Oslo, kroner to £1 ... ... 19.40| Stockholm, kroner to £1 18.304 Copenhagen, kroner to £1 19.294 Geneva, franc to £1 ... '. 17.02 J Berlin, reichmarken to £1 13.741 Montreal, dollar to £1 3.794* New York, dollar to £1 3.274 Amsterdam, florin to £1 8.15 Milan, lire to £1 .; 641-16 Prague, kroner to £1 HQJ •Vienna, schilling to £1 • ... ... 274 Helsingfors, marks to £1 228 Belgrade, dinars to £1 Warsaw, slotys to £1 Madrid, peseta to £1 40 3-16 Athens, drachmae to £1 5924 Lisbon, escudo to £1 ... 108 Bucharest, lei to £1 5524 •Rio de Janeiro, pence to milreis 54 •Buenos Aires, pence to dollar ... •Montevideo, pence to dollar ... 30 Shanghai, pence to tael 20J Yokohama, pence to yen 15 3-16 Hongkong, pence to dollar 154 Bombay, pence to rupee 18 3-16 Batavia, florin to £1 •Nominal. LONDON WOOL SALES.. Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co. Ltd. have received the following wool market cablegram from London, dated December 13: —“ Sales have closed firm, competition keen and general; all sections operating freely, Continental buyers principal buyers. Compared with closing rates of last London sale, greasy merino best descriptions, market shows no change: greasy menno, medium to good, declined 5 per cent.; greasy merino, inferior, declined 10 per cent.; scoured jnerino, medium to good, declined 5 per rent.: scoured menno, other descriptions, market shows no material change; cross-bred greasy come-back, market shows no material change; crossbred greasy, fine, best descriptions, market firm; other descriptions, declined 5 to 10 per cent.; cross-bred greasy, medium, declined 10 per cent.; cross-bred greasy, coarse, declined to 10 to 15 per. cent.; slipe, fine crossbred, declined 5 per cent.; slipe, coarse to medium cross-bred, declined 10 to 15 per cent.; cross-bred scoured, fine, market shows no material change; cross-bred scoured,, other descriptions, declined 5 per cent. 60-64’s (New Zealand merino), yielding 48 per cent., 9d (at opening of present series, 9d): 56’s, yielding 60 per cent.,. 10Jd (lid); 50’s‘yielding 65 per cent., 7sd (8$d); 44-46’s preparing, yielding 74 per cent., 5Jd (sjd); 44-46’s carding, yielding 72 per cent., 5d (s|d); 40-44’s, yielding 73 per cent., 4id, (Sid); 36.-40’s, . yielding 75 per cent., 4Jd (4Jd); 46-48’s mixed preparing and carding, yielding 72 per cent.,, s|d (6d); 48-50’s, carding, yielding 70 per cent., 7Jd (73d). SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Christchurch.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 13s 7d; New Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid), 3s 2d (4),'3s Id; Mount Lyell (cum div.), 18s 5d (2), 18s 4d (4) ; Gillespie’s Beach, 3d prem.; Nokomai, 6s (6). ’ Auckland.^—Sales on ’Change: Commercial Bank', 13s sd; Auckland Gas, 21s; Bank of New Zealand, 41s; National Bank, 66s 6d; Loan, 44 per cent. (1938), £93 2s 6 v d. PRICE OF SILVER. (British Official, Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 13. (Received December 14, at noon.) Silver.—Spot, 17 5-16 d per ounce; forward, 17fd. LONDON WHEAT MARKET. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 13. (Received December 14, at 12.5 p.m.) Sellers of # cargoes, following lower overseas advices and free offers of Australians and Plates reduced their prices 3d to 6d. Parcels were in poor demand. Australians were pressed at a decline of 6d. Futures:—London: December, 22s 3d; February, 21s 9d; April, 21s Bd. Liverpool: March, 4s lOld; May, 4s ll|d.