TODAY’S QUOTATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 11

TODAY’S QUOTATIONS

Closing quotations at today's midday call were:—

CAMBRIDGE HORSE FAIR from Oar Oxen. Correspondent CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. Th» Cambridge spring horse fair, organised by the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Ltd., was continued tonay. when again there was a large and representative attendance. The offering for draughts, mostly broken, was continued with, and the day's operations saw some good prices realised. Hie demand remained good, and good quality farm horses were keenly sought «ter. The top of the sale today was ‘ e^?^ e d by a five-year-old bay gelding on behalf of W. F. Duncan to R. "• Knight, Auckland, for 4145 10s. A o T year ' old b£ ty mare was sold to H. - Johnston, on account of T. Duck, for *4l log. Many horses sold at more nan £3O and very few were passed in. ne average for four to six-year-old Quality horses was about £32 to medium sorts averaged about i° £l6; aged and inferior, £ 8 to AUCTION NOTICES ».feffihorpe and Parkes will offer for “y auction, on behalf of the AuckTransport Board, at the Chamber of .pv?i nerce ’ Swanson Street. tomorrow Friday), at n. 30 a.in., the following pro- , Ponsonby barn site, 12 freehold icuntial sections fronting Wallace Jervois Road, and Salisbury Street, n Bay. The sections will be sold .’r'i,.? c ?? tlona Hy easy terms. City wareCl 6 •’lock, comprising three to fotirbrick building, with two road '»ra^ ges ’ Robson Street and Fanshawe -lutin' ea ®y terms. Onehunga: Level T u 5 garage; er.sy terms. 'ion anaen o Jackso.l will offer by auci, 10 -their rooms, 9 Commerce Street, :n ff at 11 o'clock on Friday mornnow 14 36 ’f°ot stnm launch Mahaki, n fetag at Rangiriri. Be nnett. Ltd., will offer the folth®ir l >r °P er ties for s«-!' bv auction at Str;./. oomß * corr ier Queen ana Short la ml 'onrinfi a * 12 noon tomorrow: Under 2onr? C * of ,* he registrar of the Supreme wel “ng of four rooms and modern in a Jl;?IV7 es on freehold volcanic section Avenue, Mount Albert; a area of 1 acre 1 rood 7.7 perches Winces JF® 3 * land with frontages to o Streef - and main road leading Wimi reat South Road. Takanini. J Uctiftrf n l. Horne, Ltd., will sell by om oJc-a* their rooms, Horne’s Buildings, street and Vulcan Lane, to"onJSJZ tjTiday), at 12.30 p.m., under ’ion a »L°5 tll ° Registrar, suburban secyzfdm *£ acres in area, sloping, 300 •lead S'? 0 * 1 metalled road, near RiverkuncK# 00 * and Post office. Access is bj' brisfi i trom Auckland. Buildings com••roomed dwelling and fowlhouse.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday The following rates on foreign exchanges are current today, compared with the cabled quotations on September 4 and par:— Sept. D Sept. 4 Far. Montreal, dol. .. 4.85 S 4.855 4.866 New York, dol. . 4.86 11-32 4.86 13-32 4.866 Far Is, fr 123.865 123.775 124.21 Brussels, belga . 34.855 34.845 35.00 Geneva, fr 25.055 25.045 25.22 Amsterdam, ft. .. 12.073 12.072 12.10 Rome, lire .. .. 92.85 92.875 92.46 Berlin, r.m 20.41 20.40 20.43 Stockholm, kr. -. 18.095 18.10 18.159 Oslo, kr 18.16 18.165 15.159 Copenhagen, kr. . 18.17 18.165 18.159 Vienna, sch. .. .. 34.43 a 34.435 34.58 a Prague, kr 1635 164 24.02 Helsingfors, m. .. 193 3-16 193 5-16 192.23 Madrid, pes 44.145 45.95 25.225 iiisbon. escu 108.25 108.25 Athens, dr ... 375 375 375 00 Bukarest, lei. . . 814 814.5 25.225 R. de Janeiro, mil. 4 15-16 45 Buen. Ayres, dol. 40 9-16 392 47.57 d Montevideo, dol. 40J —sl d Calcutta, rupee . 17 25-32 172 18d Shanghai, tael .. 19J 185 Hong-Kong, dol. - 15 11-16 152 „ Yokohama, yen. . 24 13-32 24 13-32 *.4.58d Batavia, fl 12.075 U.S.A. CROP YIELD Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON. Wed. Tho United States Agriculture Department lias issued Its general crop report on September 1, estimating the 1930 corn crop at 1.982,765.000 bushels, compared with a yield of 2,614,000,000 bushels last year. The crop condition is reported to be 51.6 per cent, of normal compared with a ten-year average of 77.7 per cent. Wheat production is estimated at 837 761.000 bushels, compared with lust year's yield of 806,000.000 bushels. CANADA’S CROP Reed. 9.5 a.m. OTTAWA. Wednesday. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates the Canadian wheat crop at 384.769.000 bushels, of which 362,000,000 bushels are from the prairies. Reed. 9.5 a.m. The "Winnipeg Free Presss" estimates tho Western Canadian wheat crop at 335,812.000 bushels.

Buyers. Sellers £ s. d. £ a. d. BANKS— Aust. of Commerce . 0 10 0 1 0 6 Australasia Com. of Australia . 0 5 Ditto (pref.) .. .. Eng.. Scot. & Aust. 13 :i2 0 2 it; 0 Union of Aust is 0 INSURANCE— 0 13 fi — New Zealand .. 3 Queensland 2 4 — South British . . *i 6 — LOAN AND AGENCY— Dominion Invest, and Goldsbrough. Mort . 1 1 8 1 X.Z. Guarantee Corp C-op (ord.) .. .. 0 Ditto (B pref.) . . 0 7 Reliance Loan . . . . — COAL— 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 14 Ditto (pref.) .. • . Taupiri — G Ditto (prof.) . . tVestport-Stockton — GAS— 1 3 0 1 4 3 Ditto (con.) 0 17 0 cote — 0 10 SHIPPING — Huddart-Parker 1 10 ft l 11 0 0 JO H 0 J 4 6 0 14 Ditto (con.> 0 <; 4 0 0 V. and O. (def. stk. > 3 H — 1 nlon Steam (pref.) 1 0 0 — TIMBER— n 13 0 — 1 ♦; 0 0 0 0 10 Parker-Lamb . . — 0 15 0 breweries— C. L. Innes .. .. 1 i G — 1 N.Z. Breweries . . . . 8 2 J. Staples and Co. .. — 2 * 6 MSCELL A XEOUS— Australian Glass 1 6 0 0 15 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 11 0 ByiToft. Ltd .. .. 1 14 9 ' olonial Sugar .. .. 31 0 0 32 0 0

Buyers. Sellers. s d. £ s. d Consolidated Brick & 0 19 C 1 0 6 Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) 0 19 9 1 0 6 Farmers' Trading . . 0 (> 0 8 0 Ditto (B pref.) .. 0 12 0 0 14 0 Fuller’s Pictures . . 0 0 Gear Meat 1 17 6 Hill and Plummer . L 0 0 N.Z. Drug 0 6 Milne and Choyce.. 1 3 Ditto (.del*, stk.) 1 3 9 i 4 Morris Hedstrom IS 0 Milburn Lime .. .. 1 4 3 National Pictures . 13 6 X.Z. Farmers’ Fert. IS (> Robinson Ice Cream 1 G Sanford and Co. .. 0 12 6 Ditto (pref.) .. . . 0 19 0 S. R. Maxwell & Co. 0 0 Taranaki oilfields .. 0 •1 3 Thames Theatre . . 0 11 0 Union Oil 1 14 Whittome -Stevenson 1 17 6 Wilsons Cement .. 2 0 3 2 1 3 MINING— 0 0 6 Waihi 0 14 11 15 Waihi Grand June. 0 L 9 0 Mount Lyell 1 0 1 9 Kuala Kampar .. .. 0 4 3 0 DEBENTURES— Auck. Harbour Bd., 1941, 6 p.c 101 0 0 1940, p.c 95 0 ) 97 0 0 Auck. Hospital Bd., 96 0 0 09 0 Wanganui. Bor., 5j{. 99 0 0 Bor. Hastings, 1942. G p.c Papa toetoe Town Bd., I960, 5J p.c Ditto, 3 935, p.c. 101 0 0 Gisborne SheepfarmS3 0 0 Hamilton Theatres, 7 p.c N.Z. Breweries .. .. 1 1 0 — DEBENTURES— 41 p.c 100 0 0 100 10 0 Ditto, 1939, 4* p.c. 100 0 0 Ditto. 1941. 4J p.c. 100 0 0 Ditto. 1933. 5i p.c. 99 h 0 — Ditto. 1936. 5J p.c. 99 — INSCRIBED STOCK — 100 Ditto. 1939. 4i p.c. 100 — Ditto. 1933. 51 p.c. Ditto. 1936, 5£ p.c. 99 5 Ditto. 1932, 51 p.c. 98 —