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NEW ZEALAND APPLES. [RY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT. I LONDON, July InApples are meeting with better inquiry, and are dearer. Quotations are: —New Zealand, exAkaroa and Port Wyndham: Rome Beauty, 8/- to !)/-; Stunners, 7/9 to 9/-. Pears are In small supply, but there is a good demand, and prices are firmer. BUTTER MARKET. LONDON, July 15. Butter is quiet, l>ut dealers are endeavouring to maintain present values. Nearly all buyers have accumulated some stock. Imports, with the exception of New Zealand, will bo heavy in the next few weeks, after which European supplies will show die usual seasonal decline. Stocks in cold storage have increased by 94,000 boxes in the last fortnight, and are now about the same as a year ago. Retailers report that consumption is good and should stand an advance in price to 14d or 15d per lb. STOCKS AND SHARES. CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. Sales: Dunlop Perdriau 21/6 (2), Woolworth’s (Syd 1 ., ord.) 24/- . (2). Reported: Broken Hill Proprietary 69/-, Gates Ltd. 8/-. WELLINGTON, July 17. Sales: Wellington Woollen (ord.) £5, British Tobacco £2 12/3. Noon call: Gates Ltd. 8/-, Bank of New Zealand 39/- (2). Reported: New Zealand Guarantee Corporation 4/-, Wellington Gas 29/-, G. J. Coles £4 (2). MINING. BLACKBALL CREEK. The Blackball Creek, dredge return last week was 85ozs. obtained in 120 hours’ dredging. MURCHISON—MATAKI. WELLINGTON, August 17.. 'The Murchison-Mataki Junction return for the week ended,.July 13 was GGoz. of smelted gold, for 126 hours, and 20,000 yards.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1939, Page 8
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