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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 8

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NEW ZEALAND WOOL [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON. March 8. A total of 55.800 bales of New Zealand wool will be offered at the wool sales, on March 14. GOLD AND EXCHANGE. LONDON. March 8. Gold’ 148/21, dollar 469 1-8, franc 176 7-8. STOCKS AND SHARES. CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. Sales: Government 4 per cent. Stock 1943-46 £9B/12/6. Southland Meat 27/6, Broken Hill Pty 58/6. Hume Pipe (Aust.) 20/6, Woolworths (South Africa) 15/-, Grey River 17/11 (4). Reported: Government 31 per cent. Stock 1953-57 £9l/10/-, Southland Meat 27/6, Westport-Stockton (pref.) 7/6.

WELLINGTON, March 9. Sales, noon call: 31 per cent. Stock 3/39/43 £99/12/6 (2), Woolworth’s Ltd. (ord.) 22/11, Waihi Investments 8/-. Morning call: Australian Consolidated Industries £5/17/- (2). Woolworth’s (N.Z., ord.) 16/6. Sales reported: 31 per cent. Stock 1953/57 £9l/10/-, British Tobacco 50/6, Sharia nd and Coy. (ord.) 14/-, preference 14/-, Woolworth’s Ltd. (ord.) 23/- (2), Woolworth’s (N.Z.. ord.) 16/6. SYDNEY, March 9. Tooths 54/-, Australgas A. £7, Associated News 20/-, British Tobacco 48/6, Broken Hill Proprietary 56/9, Contributing, New Zealand delivery 44/9, Colonial Sugar £46 10/-, Drug Houses 22/71d, Dunlop Perdriau 21/-, Electrolytic Zinc pref 50/-, General Industries 18/6. GREY RIVER DREDGE. WELLINGTON, March 9. The Stock Exchange Association advises that the Grey River Dredge return for March 7 is 160 ounces, for 94,290 cubic yards, and 124 hours worked. BIG RIVER MINES. Returns of the Big River Gold-mines, Ltd., for January and February, are as follow:—• Battery Department.—2l9 tons of ore crushed for 113 ozs. sdwts melted gold. Cyanide Department: 150 tons sands treated for 16 ozs. bullion. Total estimated value £910; in addition, two and a-half tons of concentrates were saved, valued at £7O. In estimating the above values, gold has been taken at 150/- per fine ounce.