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N.Z. SHARE MARKET. [Per Press Association], WELLINGTON, August 19. Sales reported: Christchurch Gas £1 8s lid; Nemona Is 6id; Mt. Lyell £2 4s lOd. Overseas listings: Woolworths Holdings Ltd. 16s lid. Sales, noon call: 4 Per cent. Stock 1955, £lO5 7 6d; Christchurch Drainage 45 per cent. 30/6/54, £lO5 10s; Bank of New Zealand 44s lOd; Westport Stockton Coal 2s 7d; Electrolytic Zinc pref. 60s 6d; Burns Philp Rights 355; Australian Glass 955; Wilson’s Cement 21s 45d, 21s 6d. Overseas listings: Wool worth's Holdings 16s lid. Unofficial list: Woolworth’s Ltd. £6 Ils, £6 10s odd lot. DUNEDIN, August 19. Sales: Bank of New Zealand £2 4s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary £4 4s; Shillings Ltd. 19s 3d. CHRISTCHURCH, August 19. Sales: N.Z. Refrig. (£1 paid) 19s 9d; N.Z. Breweries 50s; Staples Brewery 52s 3d (2); Australian Glass 955, 95s 6d; Colonial Sugar £4B; Electro Zinc (pref. cum. div.) 60s (2); G. J. Coles 98s, 97s 6d; Hume Pipe (Aust.) 20s lid, 21s; Morts Dock 12s 4d (2); Shillings Ltd. 19s 3d, 19s; United Provisions 10s sd; Woolworth’s (S.A.) 16s lOd; Mt. Lyell 44s (3), 44s Id (6); North Broken Hill 78s 9d. Reported: Gear Meat 19s; Consolidated Brick 8s Bd. Unlisted: McKenzie’s Department Stores 86s Gel; Woolworth’s (Sydney, ord.) £6 10s 6d. AUCKLAND, August 19. Sales: New Zealand Ins. (3) 64s 9d; Radio (1936) 23s 9d; Broken Hill Pty. (2) 84s; Big River Is 41d. Unlisted: McKenzie’s 86s 9d. Noon sales, 12.15 call: Commercial Bank ex., div. 18s; Bank of New Zealand 44s lOid; New Zealand Insurance 64s 9d; Dominion Breweries 40s 3d; pref. 40s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary (2), 84s; Woolworth’s New Zealand (rights) 84s; Shillings 19s; Stock, 15/2 43/46 (ex. int.) £lO2 10s. Unlisted: Australasian Forestry Bondholders, 1925, £26, 1929, £18; Woolworth’s (Sydney) (2), £6 10s. SYDNEY, August 19. Sales: Australian Gas (A) £7 7s 6d; Anthony Horden 19s 45d; Australian Glass 96s 6d; British Tobacco 52s 3d; Colonial Sugar £4B 12s 6d; Dalgety’s £10; Dunlop Perdriau 24s 3d; General Industries 21s 7£-d;. Lustre pref. 24s 3d. GERMAN LOANS. BERLIN, August 18. Germany announces a further internal loan of 56 millions sterling at 41 per cent., for the purpose of consolidating short-term debt contracted for re-armament and economic reconstruction. This brings the total since 1/1/35 for this purpose, to 504 millions. LONDON, August 18. Gold 139 s 41d; dollar 4981; franc 132 7-8. In the first six months this year 41.3 per cent, of the imports into Britain came from British countries, as compared with 41.5 per cent, in the corresponding period in 1936. The percentages of British exports going to British countries in the same periods were 47.5 per cent, and 48.6 per cent, respectively. In the half year imports from South American countries showed a marked increase. The value of imports from the Argentine was £34,000,000, as against £20,800,000 in the first half of 1936. Imports from Chile in the two half-years were valued at £5,100,000, and £2,900,000 respectively. There was a considerable increase in British exports to the United States from £12,600,000 in the first half of 1936, to £16,500,000 in the six months to June.