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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1934, Page 8

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GOLD PRICE RECORD

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(Recd. Oct. 12, 11.30 a.m.). LONDON, October 11. Gold 143/3, dollar 489, franc 732. BRISBANE WOOL SALES BRISBANE, October 12. The wool sales concluded with the market firm at recent levels. The top prices were: —Greasy scoured 25d. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. SYDNEY, .October .11. Wheat: At country sidings 2/1 for bagged and 2/OJ for bulk, equal to 2/8 to 2/8| ex trucks at Sydney. Flour £B, bran £5, pollard £.5/5/-; potatoes, Tasmanian £l6 to £lB, Victoria £l5, local, new £23; onions, Victorian brown Spanish £9/10/-; maize, yellow 3/2; white 3/3. MELBOURNE, October 12.

Wheat 3/1, flour £7/17/6, bran £5, pollard £5/5/-, oats 2/4 to 2/5, barley, English, 2/10 to 3/1, maize 3/6 to 3/7, onions £7 to £7/2/6, potatoes, red soils £l4/- to £l4/1/-, grej l - soils £l2 10/- to £l3/10/-. STOCKS AND SHARES. CHRISTCHURCH,. October 12. . Sales: Comm. Bank Aust. 16/2 (2); Reserve Bank £6/10/3”; Union Bank of Aust. £9/6/-; Dalgety £9/4/-; Goldsbro’ Mort. 31/6, 31/8; N.Z. Refrig (10/- paid) 9/1 (2); New Zealand Breweries 50/6, 50/9; Timaru Brewery (7/6 paid) 7/1; Dunlop Rubber 19/2; Electro Zinc (Pref.) 35/9 (2), 35/10; Mahakipawa lOBd; Skippers 7id; Waitahu 4/3; Worksop Extended 2/lid (3), 2/1 (4). Reported: Timaru Brewery (7/6 paid) 7/1; New Zealand Breweries 50/10 (2); Dalgety £9/6/-; New Zealand Refrig. (10/- paid) 9/1; Govt 4 per cent Inscribed, 1940, £105; Union Bank £9 7/6. DUNEDIN, October 12. Sales: Refrigerating (cont.) 9/3. Reported: P. and O. Deferred Stock 21/(late yesterday), Skipper’s 7Jd, 1946 Stock £lO9/5/-. AUCKLAND, October 12. Sales: Commercial Bank pref. £9 18/-, Reserve Bank £6/10/3. Goldsbrough 31/6, Sandford 2/11, pref. 11/3, Brian Born 1/4, Mahikipawa 10jd, Broken Hill pref 52/7, Stock 4 per cent. 1946, £lO9/2/6; 1949, £lll/7/6; 1955, £ll3/7/6; Alluvial 2/-, Bank of New Zealand 48/10, Auckland Gas 26/9, Colonial Sugar £75, Dunlop 19/6, New Zealand Newspapers 32/6, •Northern Roller Milling 31/-, Grand Junction 4/2. WELLINGTON, October 12.

Sales: Commercial Bank of Australia 16/3; Dominion Fertiliser 20/6; British Tobacco, London delivery £l/19/9; Skippers 7Jd. LAWSON’S FLAT CO. The secretary of Lawson’s Flat Gold Sluicing Company, Ltd., reports that the wash-up for the two weeks ended October 8, resulted in 33 oz. 3 dwt. of retorted gold. MINERVA MINES LTD. It is expected that the Minerva gold mine’s battery, will be . completed within the next three weeks, when crushing operations will then be commenced. It is approximately thirty years since this mine was in operation. • .