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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1939, Page 8

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BRADFORD QUO T A TIO N S [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON. March 9. Bradford tops. Merinos, seventies 2(id, sixty-fours 25d, sixties 21d. Crossbreds, fifty-eights 21d, fifty-sixes 19(1. fifties 17d. forty-sixes Bid nominal, forty-fours Hid nominal. Market quiet. Merino tops a shade easier. Crossbreds firm. BUTTER AND CHEESE LONDON, March 9. Blitter slightly more active. Choicest salted New Zealand 118/-, Australian 115/-. Unsalted New Zealand 122/-, Australian 117/-. Danish easier 140/-. Cheese dull. New Zealand white and coloured 02/-, Australian white 56/-, 58/- coloured 59/6, 61/-. SYDNEY MARKETS SYDNEY, March 9. The price for silo wiieat has dropped here to the lowest level of the current season, and little business is being done. Quotations are: Silo grain 2/4 3-Sd to 2/4 l-8d pm 1 bushel; bagged grain 2/6:{ io 2/6. Flour is £l2/5/- per ton; pollard £5/10/-; bran £5/5/-; maize (prime yellow) 4/9 per bushel. Potatoes: Tasmanian £22/10/- per ton; others to £l7. Onions: New Zealand brown £2O per ton; Victorian white £27. Peas: 9/5 to 13/6 per bushel; swedes 16/- per cwt; pumpkins 20/- per cwt.

STOCKS AND SHARES. WELLINGTON, March 10. Sales: Feilding Gas 2/-, Gear Meat 13/- (2), Mac Duffs (Ord.) 2/8, Grey River 18/-. Reported: 35 per cent, stock 3/39/43 £99/12/6, Bank of New Zealand £l/18/9 (2). Bank of New Zealand D long term 26/1. Bond’s Hosiery Mills 21/-, Maori Gully 75d. Overseas list: Woolworths holdings, South Africa 15/-. WELLINGTON, March 10. Sales, noon call: Woolworths Ltdord. 20/11. CHRISTCHURCH, March 10. Sales: E. S. and A. Bank £5/3/3, N.Z. Breweries 38/- (3), Broken Hill Pty. 59/- (2), N.Z. Newspapers 28/-. Reported: Commercial Bank of Sydney £2l, N.Z. Breweries 38/3, Electro Zinc (ord C. D. late sale) 48/3 (2), Grey River (late sale 9th) 17/10. LONDON, March 9. Clutha. buyers 1/lij sellers 1/45. Molyenaux buyers 3d, sellers fid.

MOSSY CREEK. The Mossy Creek dredge return was 37 ozs. 6 dwts. from 8.859 yards of wash in 130 hours. ADDISON’S FLAT. The Addison Gold Mining Company’s return for the period ending Wednesday, March 1, was 23 ounces 5 dwts for 35 shifts.

MOONLIGHT. The Moonlight sluicing claim washup yesterday was 133£ ounces for ,400 hours sluicing. HUDDART-PARKER DIVIDEND SYDNEY. March 8. Huddart Parker, Ltd., earned a net profit of £134.518 in the year ended December 31, 1938, compared with £114.696 in the previous period. Ordinary dividend, including a bonus of two per cent., is 14 per cent, per annum, against 11 per cent., for the year previous. Preference dividend remains at the customary six per cent.