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Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 14

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FOREIGN EXCHANGES. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright • RUGBY. October 26. (Received October 27, at 1 p.m.) Paris, franc lo £X 178 51-64 New York, dollar to £1 ... ... 4.773 Montreal, dollar to £1 4.81| Brussels, belgas to £1 ... ... 28.201, Geneva, francs to £1 20.97 Amsterdam, florins to £1 8.75£ Milan, lire to £1 ••• 90 7-16 Berlin, reichinarken to £1 ... 11.88 a Stockholm, kroner to £1 19.41 Copenhagen, kroner to £1 ... 22.40 Oslo, kroner to £1 19.90 Vienna, schillings to £1 nominal Prague, crowns to £1 1391 Helsingfors, marks to £1 ... ... 2263 Madrid, pesetas to £1 ... ... nominal Lisbon, escudos to £1 110£ Athens, drachmae to £1 547 a Bucharest, lei to £1 ».. 660 Belgrade, dinars to £1 ... ... 211 Warsaw, roubles to £1 ... ... 25.62 *Rio de Janeiro, pence to milreis 3 Buenos Aires, pence to dollar ... 19.00 Montevideo, pence to dollar ... 20 Bombay, pence to dollar 1713-16 Hongkong, pence to dollar ... 15 Shanghai, pence to dollar ... ... 8 Yokohama, pence to yen ... ... 14 Batavia, Gorins to £1 4.751 SALES ON ’CHANGE THIS DAY. Auckland.—First call: Commercial Bank 16s 6d; Auckland Gas, 19s; British Tobacco, 48s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 57s 9d; New Zealand Drug, 675; Taranaki Oil, 13s 9d ; New Zealand Breweries, 40s 3d; Waihi, 9s 3d; North Broken Hill, 51s 3d; Southern Cross, 4s. 12.15 p.m. call: National Bank of N.Z., 60s; Union Bank, £8 15s; New Zealand Insurance, 52s 6d ; Auckland Gas, 19s and 18s lid ; (con.), 13s 9d. . Australian Glass, 97s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 57s 9d; Colonial Sugar. £4B 10s; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 48s ; Taranaki Oil, 13s lid ; Woolworths (Sydney). 20s lOd; Woolworths’ Holdings, 15s; Capel Court, 3s 6d; Milne and Choyce (deb.). 16s; Martha, 11s 6d; Rawang Tin, 9s; Government Stock, 1963-57, 3J per cent., £93 15s; Mount Lyell. 30s 3d. Wellington.—Sales reported: National Bank of Australasia (£lO paid), £l4 8s 6d; Bank of New South Wales (Sydney register), £3l; Toohey’s, £1 10s 9d (two sales); Tooth’s, £2 14s 6d; Taranaki Oil, 13s 9d; G. J. Coles, £3 19s 9d ; Henry Jones. £2 8s 3d, £2 8s ; Consolidated Brick and Pipe, 7s 6d; Woolworths Ltd. (ord.), £1 0s lOd, £1 Is, £1 0s lid; Woolworths’ Holdings (South Africa), 14s 9d (two sales). Noon cal!; 4 per cent. Bonds (1955). £99 10s; Bank of New Zealand, 41s 3d ; Electrolytic Zinc (preference), 48s 4Jd; Sharlands (preference), 17s 6d; Dunlops, 20s 6d; Australian Glass, 98s; New Zealand Drugs. 675: Mount Lyell. 30s 4d. Christchurch.—Bank of Australia, 16s 8d; ES. and A. Bank. £5 8s; National Bank of New Zealand, 50s 6d (3); Australian Glass, 99s 6d ; Broken Hill Proprietary, 57s 10d (2) ; Wilsons Cement. 16s 6d; Woolworths (Sydney), 20s 10d; Woolworths (South Africa), 14s lOd. Reported: Bank of New Zealand, 41s 3d; N.Z. Drug, 675.