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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 April 1939, Page 9

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LONDON METAL MARKET IUPA-lly KlW’lrie Teleaiauli i • LONDON, 12th APRIL. Copper, standard £42 3s I'd per ton; forward £42 9s 4{<l; electrolytic, £4B to £43 Ids ; wire bars £4B 10s; tin £215 17s 6d per toll spot, £213 7s 6d forward; lead, £l4 Is IOJ.I spot, £l4 5 S 7Jd forward; spelter, £l3 4s 4Jd spot, £l3 10s 7Jd forward ; silver, 20d per ounce, fine 21 9-16 d per ounce. AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGES SYDNEY, 13th April. The market on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day was the busiest and brightest for weeks, with a firmer trend for leadins industrials. Bidders for G. .1. Coles, who have announced a new issue at par, raised their limit from 74s to 77s 6d. Broken Hill stocks were steady and quiet. Sales included Commercial Bank of A us. Delia, 15s; Bank of New South Wales, £2B 15s; Bank of Australasia, £8 19s; Colonial Sugar, £45 12s 6d; British Tobacco, £2 6s 6d ; Tooth and Co., £2 Us; Drug Houses, £1 2s; Australian Iron and Steel pref., £1 7s; Australian Consolidatel Industries, £1 13s 6d; Dunlop-I'er-driau, 19s lOd : Farmers £1 7s 3d ; David Jones, £1 11s 9d ;Mort’s Dock, 14s; Traders Finance, £1 2s; Cash Orders, 15s; Standard Cement, £1 Is; Mauri Bios., £3 7s; Victoria Nyanza. 9s 9d; Winchcombe, Corson £1 5s 6d ; Henry Jones, £2 8s; Millaquiu Sugar, £1 18s; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 4s; Mount Lyell, £1 4:. 4cl: Broken llill Proprietary £2 15s Bel; North Broken Hill, £2 Is 3d ; Rawang Till, 6s 6d ; Emperor Gold 7s 10d , Broken Hill South, £1 4s. MELBOURNE, 13th April. Sales on the Stock Exchange of Melt bourne to-day included Metropolitan Gas, £l3 13s; Goldsbrough Molt, £1 7s; Australian Paper Mills, pref., £1 4s 3d; O. J. Coles, £3 19s; Dunlop-Perdriau, £1 Mount Lyell, £1 ss; Lolonia Mines. 19s 6d ; Mount Morgan, 9s lid. PRICE OF SILVER I British Ulli Hal Wirelessl RUGBY, 12th April. Silver quotations are:—Spot, 20d an ounce; forward, 19 13-l Gd.