COMMERCIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1934, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

GOLD AND EXCHANGE.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

LONDON, April 17. To-day’s quotations:-—Gold 134/81, dollar 5153, franc 78 3-16.

LONDON WOOL SALES.

LONDON, April 17.

Wool available for the third series of sales is 128,000 bales, including new arrivals 15,000 Australian, and 39,700 New Zealand. The quantity to be catalogued will not be fixed until April 24.

WESTLAND BUTTER

The* Inter—Wanganui Co-operative Dairy Factory Coy. Ltd., Hari Hari, is in receipt of a letter from their export agents from which the following extract is taken:-— ‘The following is report from one London office on your butter ex “Tuscan Star’’: “Packing and finish good, good medium colour, nicely salted with a good clean flavour. A very good shipment.”

STOCKS AND SHARES.

WELLINGTON, April 18.

Noon call: Sales, Fours, Govt. Bonds and Stock, 1946, £lO3/12/6; Bond and Stock, 1949, £lO2/12/6; Bonds 1955, £lO3/12/6, and Stock, 1955, £lO3/10/-. WELLINGTON, April 18.

Sales: Stock fours, 1940, £lO3/15/ Wellington Gas 37/-, Skippers 1/IJ. AUCKLAND, April 18.

Sales: Westport-Stockton 1/8; Refrig Con. 1/6; Talisman 9/9; Bank of New Zealand 48/6; D Mortgage 34/-; South British 78/3; Union Bank £lO/2/6, £lO/3/-; Bonds 1940. £lO3 15/-. DUNEDIN, April 18. Sales on ’Change: King Solomon 4/9; New Cornish Point (cont.), 6d, (two). Reported: Standard Insurance 60/6; Dominion Fertilizer 18/-. CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Sales: N.Z. Govt. 4 per cent Inscr. ■1940, £104; National Bank of Australasia (£5 paid), £6/7/6; Goldsbrough Mort. 34/1; N.Z. Refrig. (10/- paid). 7/2, (6); Kaiapoi Woollens (17/- paid) 10/2; New. Zealand Breweries 40/7, 40/8, 40/9, (3); Timaru Brewery 6/6, 6/9; Beath and Co. (1/- paid) 8/- (2), 8/1; Aotearoa. 9d; Bell-Hooper (1/paid) lOJd; Gillespie’s Beach 1/10; Mahakipawa 71d, (2); Mahakipawa (pref.), HJd, (2); Nevis Diesel Electric 81d.

MATAKI GOLD DREDGING

The following is the official return for the week ending April 14: —34 ounces for 127 hours’ working.

DOMINION PICTURES, LTD

AUCKLAND, April 16

Dominion Pictures, Limited, Auckland, has declared interim dividends of 21 per cent, on ordinary shares, and 3 per cent, on preference shares. No interim dividend was paid last year on ordinary shares, which received 21 per cent, for the full year. Preference dividend is at the usual rate of 7£ per cent, per annum, less 20 per cent.