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Evening Star, Issue 21619, 15 January 1934, Page 12

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DELAYED FLIGHT MESSAGES. The general manager ol the Broadcasting Board, in expressing disappointment at the'delay in getting messages from the Southern Cross on Saturday, stated that the Government receiving station in ■Wellington (ZLW) had difficulty in maintaining communication, but eventually received the messages addressed to the Radio Board.— Press Association. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE, SYDNEY, January 15.—Stock Exchange sales; 4 per cent. 1941 bonds, £lO4 18s 9d; 1961, £lO7 7s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £34 ss; Tooth's, 45s 3d; Associated News 21s 4fd. preference 21s 7Jd; Dunlop, Pordriau, 22s 1 Jd; Wilcox, Mofflin. 13s 9d: Winehcombe, Carson, 33s 6d. THE STAVISKY SC-tNDAL. PARIS. January 14.—The Department of Justice has instituted an inquiry, into all the facts of the Stavisky affair.' BUOYANT WOOL PRICES. Details of the prices realised at Auckland to-day for grouped lots, compared with the figures for the corresponding lots last November are as follows: —A medium crossbred, 13}d (Hid); A strong crossbred, lOiJd (7d) : B, IOJd (6Jd); half-bred hogget, 20id fluid); A fine cross-bred hogget, 20d (13$d) ; v coarse cross : bred hogget, 13J4, (10d); A Southdown, 23£d (22|d); B Southdown, 22?,d (14Jd)"; Lalfbred, 18|d to S2id (14*d tdlßd). Press Association. VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT ' SCHEME. ' / ’ ; A statement that . recruiting under the voluntary enlistment/ scheme was increasing was madci by the Hou. «T. G. Cobhe to-day. The Minister stated that. last month the percentage of enrolment, excluding bandsmen, on the establishment of the force was 80 per cent., which showed that, a steady increase in the number of men enlisting was being maintained. The strength of the infantry was 3,418, as • against, the establishment of 4,100; the strength of the mouiited rifles was 2,086, against 1,998; and the, figures for the artillery were 1,413 and 2,188 respectively, —Wellington Press Association. THE STOCK EXCHANGE. . Sales reported this afternoon: National Bank of New Zealand, 83s; New Zealand Refrigerating (paid), 19s 9-Jd. 1