LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16114, 1 May 1923, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day. John Bouchard, a French Canadian seaman on the schooner Forest Home, fell overboard last night. Efforts made to recover tho body failed', but this morning it was recovered from the bottom of tho harbor.

Vegetable producers in the Hutt Valley decidied' last nightl to markot their own produce through an independent auctioneer. This is betatifo otf the dispute with thfj auctioneers over the sale of loose produce and raising the* commission charges. Interesting developments a |-0' expected. CIIR.ISTCHURCH, this day. Sales reported l : Bank of New South Wales, £3B lQs; Ai, per cpnt, lf|39 bonds, £97 12s 6d. On 'Change: Bank of New South Wales, £3B IQbj Bank of New Zealand, 60s 6d'; Canterbury Frozen Meat Co., £ls 16s; Bawra, 16s. ispenai io Cne Herald.l WELLINGTON, this dav. Inscribed stock, 1938, seller £97 12s 6d>; 1933, buyer £lOl 10s; 1927, buyer £97 10s, seller £9B; 1929, buyer £97; lanlcs—Australasia, buyer 2705; National, buyer 1335, seller 134 s 6d; New Zealand, buyer 60s 9d, seller 61s 3d'; Union, buyer 288 s 6d', seller 2905; insur ance—buyers, National 79», New Zealand 295, South Britjsh 37s 9d. Standard' 35s 6d'j Refrigerating Co., 10s 'paid' up, seller 13s 6d; Hudtlart, Parker Co., buyer 42s 6di; do,, pref,, buyer 20s, Union Steam, proL, buyer 20» 3d, selW 20s lOd; Wellington Woollen Co., bi-ver 179.<M 6d, seller 185 s; Waipa Co., seller 17s 6d; Leyland-O'Brien, buyer ifos; Howard' Smith and' Co., buyer 52s td ; Drug Co., buyer ,60s; Ward's Brewery Co., seller 56s 6d'; Wilson's Cement Co.", buyer 25s 6d.