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Evening Star, Issue 23015, 21 July 1938, Page 16

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FOREIGN EXCHANGES. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, July 20. (Received July 21, at noon.) The following' are the mean closing rates:— . , Pans, frano to £1 ... 178 13-64 New York, dollar to £1 4.92| Montreal, dollar to £1 4.94 Brussels, belgas to £1 29.10 Geneva, francs to £1 21.50 Amsterdam, florins to £1 8.95 1-16 Milan, lire to £1 ... 93| Berlin, reichmarken to £1 ... 12.25 Stockholm, kroner to £1 19.39 J Copenhagen, kroner to £1 ... 22.40 Oslo, kroner to £1 19.90 Vienna, schillings to £1 ... nominal Prague, crowns to £1 142 A Helsingfors, marks to £1 ... ... 226| Madrid, pesetas to £1 nominal Lisbon, escudos to £1 110 3-16 Athens, drachmae to. £1 ... 547£ Bucharest, lei to £1 667 j Belgrade, dinars to £1 217 Warsaw, roubles to £1 ... ... 26.23 *Rio de Janeiro, pence to mllreis 2 27-32 Buenos Aires, pence to dollar 18.932 Montevideo, pence to dollar ... 20 Bombay, pence to rupee 17 29-32 Hongkong, pence to dollar » ... 14 31-32 Shanghai, pence to dollar ... 81 Yokohama, pence to yen ... ■ 14 Batavia, florins to £1 ... ... 8.93 a •Sellers. ‘ ' SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. Iress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, July 21. (Received July 21, at 1.30 p.m.) Bonds: 4 per cent., 1938, £lOl 3s 9d; 1944, £lO3 ss; 1957, £lO4. Shares: Commercial Bank of Sydney, £2O 10s; Union Bank (New Zealand delivery), £8 15s; Tooths, 55e; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 6d; Burns, Philp, South Sea, 27s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £47 7s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 22s 3d; Howard Smith, 20s 7jd. RISE IN SUGAR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 20. (Received July 21, at 1 p.m.) In the House of Commons Mr Malcolm MacDonald said there was a good prospect of a substantial rise in sugar during the year beginning August 31. The price was already 6d per cwt above the price prevailing when the International Council met a fortnight ago. SALES ON ’CHANGE. Auckland.—lo a.m. call: Commercial Bank (pref.), £9 10s 6d: Bank of New Zealand, 435: Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 3d; New Zealand Insurance, 56s 6d; Mount Lyell, 28s 7d; Argo, 2s o§d. 12.15 p.m. call: Commercial Bank, 16s 4Jd; New Zealand Insurance, 56s 6d; Kauri Timber, 22s 7d; Broken Hill Proprietary (cont.), 36s Id; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 48s; Dunlop Perdriau, 22s 3d; Woolworths (New Zealand), 20s 9d; Mount Morgan (ex div.), 10s 8d; New Zealand Stock (1952-55) 4 per cent., £lO2 ss. ■ _ , , Wellington.—First call: Reported— British Tobacco, £2 7s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £2 8s lOd; G. J. Coles, £4 Is 4|d (2) ; Woolworths Limited (ord.), £1 2s. Noon call: Auckland Harbour Board 4J per cent. (1945), £IQ2 ; Union Bank, £8 12s 6d; Woolworths Limited (ordinary), 225: Broken Hill (contributing), 36 8s; Broken Hill, 60s 3d, 60s 4d (two sales) • British Tobacco, 47s 7d; Colonial Sugar, £46 15s. Christchurch. —E.S. and A. Bank, £5 4s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s (odd parcel); Electrolytic Zinc, 43s 9d; G. J. Coles, 81s 6d, 82s 3d; Taranaki Oilfields, 13s 4d; Woolworths (Syd., ord.), 20s 9d • Mount Lyell, 29s (5); Mount Morgan (ex div.), 10s 84a; Mining House Concessions, Id. Reported: Big River, Is Ijd; Bank of New Zealand, 435.