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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1936, Page 14

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BUTTER AND CHEESE. [FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 25. The Dairy Board fixed the prices of butter at lid and cheese at 6u'd, equivalent to 111/9 and 57/2 c.i.f.e. GOLD AND EXCHANGE. LONDON, July 24. Gold 138/10. dollar 501 5-8, franc 75 29/32. OPOSSUM SKIN SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report. that the total offering at yesterday’s sale was 14,000. Browns were sixpence higher and blacks sixpence lower than last season. STOCKS AND SHARES. AUCKLAND. July 25. Sales; Final call ot week: —Golden Dawn 3/-; Morts. 11/7: Kaiapoi 14/9; Taupo Pref. 14/6; Farmers’ Trading 19/7; Robinson Ice 22/-; British Tobacco 40/9; National Bank 65/-; Glass 90/9; Wood worth’s £5/11/6; Bank Asia £ll/17/6; Stock 46/49, £lO5. MINING RETURNS. KING SOLOMON. INVERCARGILL, July 24. The return at King Solomon mine this week amounted to 390 z. lOdwt. BUNDI DREDGE. > The Bundi Tin Dredge return for the period ending July 15 was 1350 z. 17 dwt. 2grs. for 38,000 yards treated in 162 hours. MAORI GULLY The return from the Maori Gully dredge was 39 ozs. 3 dwts. for 130 hours. ARGO DREDGE. The Argo dredge return for this week is 64 ounces, from 10.000 yards, dredged in 117 hours. BIG RIVER GOLD MINES.

Report for week ending July 21.— Main Shaft: The sill carrying the landing chairs for the mine trucks at the collar of main shaft has been completed, and these landing chairs are now working satisfactorily. The ladder compartment of shaft has been cleared down from No. 1 to No. 5 levels, and is now in gpod travelling ..ondition. No. 5 Level: The plat has been cleaned out and flat sheets are being laid down. Driving No. 5 level crosscut to intercept the downward continuation of the ore channel worked in No. 4 level commenced on the 16th instant. Two shifts are being employed at this work. The country is good. No. 4 Level: South stopes are being timbered and filled in, preparatory to stoping • operations being restarted in this section. In the north end of No. 4 level, this drive has been cleaned out and timbered and the extending of this level north, is in progress, to intercept the lode showing in the leading stope above this level. COMPANIES REGISTERED. Paroa Gold Ltd., registered July 10; office: Christchurch. Capital: £12,000 into 240,000 shares of 1/- each. Subscribers: Christchurch —New Zealand Mining Investments Ltd 20,000, J. Pennv 1000, H. H. Cook 1000, 11. A. Martin 1000, S. H. Maderen 1000. Dobson— J. P. Gage 5000. Auckland —C. F. Gardner 5000. Objects: Mining and incidental. Moffitt Automatic Lock Co., Ltd., registered March 14. Capital: £3,500 in 3,500 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Karamea —W. R. Simpson 50, F. H. Wood 250. Charleston —J. H. Powell 10. Market Cross—D. R. J. Simpson 250. Westport—A. G. Kearns 1, M. B. Scully 100. Arapito—D. M. Moffitt 1,375. Objects: Acquisition of patents and incidental.