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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 9

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HAWKE’S BAY MEAT PRICES (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. Tho freezing works in Ilawkc's Bay opened yesterday. Price's at present offered for early shipment are: Lambs 7J,d, .wethers (up to 481b5.) 4|d, fat ewes 9s pec 1001b5.,. ox beef 30s. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE PRICES ADELAIDE, Nov. 6. Wheat 2s 7rl, flour £7 15s, bran £-1 10s, pollard £5, oats 2s 3d. SYDNEY, Nov. 6Wheat, bulked, 2s lOjd, bagged* 2s Bd, ex trucks Sydney; flour £8 10s; pollard £5; bran £4 10s; potatoes, Tasmanian £lO, Victorian £7 10s; onions, Victorian Spanish £6 to £7; oats, white 3s 6d, Algerian 4s 3d ; maize 3s lid. NATIONAL BANK PROPITS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Tho general manger of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., has received a cabled message from London advising the board of the order of payment of an interim dividend for the half-year ended September 30 last at tho rate of 12 per cent, per free of tax, payable on January 3DOMINION’S CROPS (Per T’rnss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Tho following are the estimated areas under wheat, oats, barley and potatoes (season 1930-31) in New Zealand, according to a, return contained in last night’s Gazette: Wheat, 243,000 acres (South Island 239,300, North Island 3700); oats, 322,000. acres, (South Island 305,600, North Island 16,500); barley, 25,950 acres (South Island 23,350, North Island 1900); potatoes . 24,000 acres, (South Island 19,600, North Island 4400). Tho totals last season were: Wheat 238,653, oats 282,814, barley 18,631, potatoes 23,214 acres.