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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 146000, 5 December 1917, Page 7

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LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Dec. 3. Tin —Spot £293 15s, three months £291 15s. Silver, 3s 63d per oz. Other metals unchanged. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. ■PECIAI. TO HEBALD. AUCKLAND, Deo. 5. Messrs. Hendry and Hay (E P. Webster local agent) report the following Stock Exchange quotations and •ales:— _ . . Quotations. —Bank of Now Zealand, seller £l2 Bs, buyer £l2 ss; National Bank, buyer, £5 4s; New Zealand Insurance. buyer, £7 17s; Taupiri Coal, 17s 6d and 16s 6d; Auckland Gas, 27s 6d and 275, contributing 20s 9d and 20s; Northern Steamship, contributing seller 7s ld : ; Auckland Trams, preferential seller, 16s 9d, ordinary 21s and 20s 3d; Waihi, 37s and 36s 3d; Junction, 16s and 15s 3d; Talisman, seller, 10s 9d. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce has received the following cablegram dated London, December 1, from the High Commissioner for New' Zealand. (Note. —Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot.) Meat.—All descriptions of meat are in small supply, selling at maximum prices. New Zealand frozen meat, no supplies available. Argentine mutton and lamb is very scarce, HJd ; Argentine chilled beef, hinds, lljd; fores, 9id. Butter.—Market remains as last reported. No official quotations, with the exception of very limited supply during this week of Paris and New' Zealand, at maximum prices. Cheese.—Small supplies at Government prices. Hemp.—Manila and New Zealand market quiet, small business doing at fixed prices. Wheat.—Market steady and a fair business doing. No. 2 Manitoba Northern and No. 2 Hard Winter, 745; Australian, 77s 6d. Oats.-J-Market quiet hut firm. No. 2 White Clipped American, 595.