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Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 14

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LONDON SHEEPSKIN SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Dunedin, has received the following advice from its London house, under date February 11:—“The position of the market as compared with preceding auctions:—Prices are lower 10 per cent, for combing merino, 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, for combing cross-bred, about 5 per cent, for clothing merino and cross-bred. Demand fair. “ Current quotations for New Zealand sheepskins:—s6-58’s: full-woolled sound pelts, 93d; three-quarter, 83d; half, 83d. 48-50’s: Full-woolled, 8)d; three-quarter, 73d; half, 73d. 44-46’s: Full-woolled, BJd; three-quarter, 73d; half, 7Jd. 40’s: Full-woolled, 8d; three-quarter, 7Jd; half, 73d. Short and shorn, 63d to 63d.” SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 14. (Received February 14, at 2 p.pi.) Bonds: 4 per cent., 1938, £lOl 3s 9d; 1941, £lO3 18s 9d; 1947, £lO5 10s; 1961, £lO5 7s 6d. Shares: Commercial Bank of Sydney, £2O Is: National Bank (£lO paid), £l4 11s; Tooths, 65s 3d; Associated News, 22s 43d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 61s ■ 3d; Colonial Sugar, £46 12s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc, 475; Henry Jones, 48s 3d; James btedman, 15s 6d. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—National Insurance, 16s 10d; South British Insurance, 46s 3d; Farmers’ Auction (B pref.), 21s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, 465; Coles, 78s: Woolworths Holdings, 14s 6d; Martha Mine, 15s 2d; North Broken Hill, 60s. Unlisted: Auckland Trotting Club, £lO3. Noon call: of New Zealand, 42s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 6d; Woolworths (Sydney), 24s " Wellington.—Morning call: ChristSS? Sril l o T'cS«ri3“^: Noon call; 33 per cent. Stock (1938521 £103; Kauri Timber, 22s 2d, Woolworths Ltd. (ord.), 23s 7d, 23s 9d, and 24s (2). . , Christchurch.— New- Zealand K«friaerating (10s paid), 8s sd; Auckland Gat sOs id; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 6d' and 60s 5d;G. J- Coles, 77s 3d and 775; Kauri Timber, 22s and 22s 3d (2); Woolworths Ltd. (ord.), 23s 6d, 23s Bd, and 23s Hd (3): Mount LyeU, 29s 6d (2) and 29s 5d (2); Mount Morgan 9s (4). Reported; Woolworths (N.Z.), 19s 3d.