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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1928
Page
2
Tuesday market update notes rising supply and falling consumption for coffee, with large export packings. Cheese and small goods show brismani stock, Trettodinian tomatoes offered below recent rates, Japanese onions easing, and a new price line added. Various butter, cheese, meat, lard, honey and grain quotations listed with unit prices and packaging details.
Prices list fruit and vege quotations in Sydney on Tuesday with apples firmer paw paws cheaper and many items named by price per bushel per dozen boxes or per double crate. Slow sales noted for paw and beans while greens and other items show varied demand and reduced rates.
At Municipal Markets Sydney Tinsley notes wood demand for choice fish. Quotations list schnapper and jewfish across a wide price range with kingfish flathead whiting lobsters and mullet among items trawled and sold.
Mean closing quotations for September 10 show copper at 62 pounds 17 shillings 6 pence per ton, electrolytic copper 22 pounds 2 shillings 8 pence per ton with a rise noted, tin at 200 pounds 18 shillings 9 pence per ton rising, and other metals including zinc and silver with varied changes as reported via cable to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.
In Sydney on Tuesday European wheat futures were quoted weaker and Australian grain prices for December January delivery were offered at 47 shillings per quarter. Liverpool futures eased while wholesale help was scarce. Market was quiet with buyers cautious and bulk purchases priced around 13 shillings 7 pence per bushel after charges.
Yesterday's sales at the Sydney Stock Exchange included Commonwealth loans with varied percentages and prices, listed debentures from Australian Gas and others, numerous bank and industrial stocks, and multiple commodity quotes across tin, silver lead, and related items. The report catalogs prices and yields for numerous brokers, companies, and bonds with varied maturities and stocks.
The Abattoira market report notes a small pig supply with mixed quality and steady competition. Prices range from 3/ to 6/- for certain pigs, baconers rising to 8/ and fowlers moving above the previous day’s levels.
Rydney Tucsudy Tuten report the Alexandria produce market with prices for wheaten chaff oats beans hay and potatoes plus victorian snowflakes onions Sweden maize and wheat ranges. Bids show per ton or per bushel rates in old currency, indicating a broad market snapshot.
Roosters weaker while turkeys move slowly at the poultry market with other lines steady. Prices listed include white leghorns 4 to 10, coloured birds 7/4 to 15, cockerels 4 to 10, Muscovy ducks 6 to 9, turkey gobblers 13/10 to 32/5 and hens 11 to 17.
Fragmented recipe style notice promotes a family cough mixture KLPTAL and a bert cough blend with sweetened water to create a two shilling bottle. It asserts effectiveness for coughs bronchitis and related chest cold symptoms and touts a syrup labeled HERNZOL AEENZO as soothing for sore throats and easing coughing.
The article chronicles early 20th century endurance events led by Hubert Opperman with a Paris race heritage, notes on Watters and Wilters, and recalls Bol door paced records. It previews Major Segrave’s water and land speed efforts, motorsport tech, and a 10 day Royal Automobile Club of Australia rally from October 26 to November 3 with routes linking Sydney and Melbourne plus weight classes and two speed trials.
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