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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1933, Page 10

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BONDS AND SHARES | j 1 i AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES. BANKS MORE ACTIVE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 13. On the Sydney Stock Exchange today Banks were more active. Pastoral shares were firmer, hut Commonwealth bonds were slightly wmaker. Morning sales included: Commonwealth 4 per cent bonds, 1938, £lO2 7/6; 1950, £lO5 5/; 1955, £lO4 5/; 1057, £lO4 10/. Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l7 3/; Bank of New .South Wales, £3l 17/6;' Australian Gas, A shares, £7 4/6; Associated News, 8/3; Australian Glass, 48/; Broken Hill Proprietary, 35/4A; Colonial Sugar, £SB; Goldsbrough Mort, 28/0; Morris Hedstrom, 17/; Winchcombe Carson, 27/3.

Afternoon sales included: Bank of N.S.W., £3l 17/6; English, Scottish and Australian Bank, £5 2/6; National Bank, £lO paid, £l3; Union Bank, £0 15/; Queensland National Bank, £5 5/; Colonial Sugar, £58; ! Associated News, 8/4; ditto, preference, 18/41; Australian Glass, 48/; Bums Philp, 51/; Berlei. contributing, 13/6; ditto, paid up, 27/;, Gordon and Gotch, 34/3; Morris Hedstrom, 17/; Goldsbrough Mort, 28/9; Dunlop Perdreau, 18/6.; , Henry Jones, 38/6; Electro Zinc, preference, 32/9; Winchcombe Carson, 27/6; Wilcox Mofflin, 7/9; Tooth’s Brewery, 39/3; Toohey’s Brewery, 23/101; Mt. Lyell, 22/41; Broken Hill Pty., 36/. Melbourne sales included: Commercial Bank of Australia, preference, £9 2/; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l7; English, Scottish and Australian Bank, £5 2/; Herald and Weekly Times, 34/; Goldsbrough Mort, 28/9; British Tobacco, 34/6; Electro Zinc, 23/3; Broken Hill Pty., 36/3; North Broken Hill, 87/3; Mt. Lye.ll, 22/6; Taranaki Oil, 2/1. ‘

SALES AT, KAMO. competition keen. RANGE OF PRICES. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held a. sale at Kamo yesterday. There was an average yarding of .all ...classes of stock submitted to a large attendance of buyers. . Sheep were also penned in more than, average numbers, for -which competition was keen at late rates. Cattle sold at late rates. Quotations. —Dairy heifers, close to profit, £4 10/ 'to £5; backward and inferior sorts, £2 to. £2 10/; dairy cows, backward and inferior, £1 10/ to £2 10/; fat cows, £2. 10/ to £3; boner cows, 35/ to 25/.. Sheep: -Fat hoggets to 12/10; fat ewes to'. 12/10; medium weight fat wethers to 13/; mixed sex hoggets, 8/ to 0/; full-mouth ewes running with Southdown rams, 8/ to. 9/; culled ewes to 4/4. Farmers’ Co-op. Report.' The North Auckland Farmers’ Co--op., Ltd., report having held a sale at Kamo yesterday, A large number of buyers were in attendance. Quotations; —-Dairy cows, £2 10/ to £6 5/; heifers, £1 to £4/; fat cows, £2 30/6 to £3 12/6; steers, £3 10/ to £3 .10/; bulls, £2 17/ to £5. Sheep: Wethers, 11/3 to 16/11; ewes, 3/1 to 1.3/9; hoggets, 6/3 to 7/; lambs, 6/1 to 11/4.

Yarding at Pajrotai. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having hold their monthly stock sale at Dakota! on Wednesday last. A large number of buyers were present coming from far south as Papakura. Competition’was keen throughout at an advance on late rates, and a total clearance was effected under the hammer. Quotations: —Mediumweight fat bullocks, £4 12/ to £4 14/; lightweight, £4 6/'to £4 10/; 3-year Shorthorn steers, £3 o/ to £3 11/; ,2-year Polled Angus steers, £2 13/; runners, £1 13/; forward dairy cows, £2 10/ to £4. A line of 63 fat and forward Hereford 'bullocks, sold on account of Mr A. J. McDonald, made an approximate average price of £4 10/.

MINING NEWS. YIELD AT LAWSON’S FLAT. The Dawson’s Flat Company, Kumara, Westland, reports a return of 40 ounces 12 pennyweights of melted gold for the week ended July S. GOLD AND SILVER. LATEST QUOTATIONS IN LONDON ■ \ LONDON, July 12. Fine gold is quoted today at £G 4/0 an ounce, compared with £G 4/10 yesterday. Silver is quoted at 18 7-lCd an ounce, spot, and 18 0-lCd forward, compared with 17 15-lCd and IS MGd yesterday. The quotation for silver at per fine ounce is 19 7-Bd, compared with 19 3-Sd yesterday.