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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23962, 1 June 1943, Page 6

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STOCK EXCHANGES BUSINESS AT CHRISTCHURCH Apart from vestibule business, the following transactions were recorded on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday; Sales on ’Change.—Listed Stocks: 100 N.Z. Refrigerating (£1 paid), 265; 50 N.Z. Drug Co. (£1 paid), 54s 6d. Sales Reported.—Listed Stocks: 400 N.Z. Refrigerating (10s paid), 12s 4Jd; 59 N.Z. Drug Co. (£1 paid), 54s 6d. LATEST QUOTATIONS N.Z. Govt. Debentures.—2l p.c. Stock. 1946, b £9B; 3 p.c. Stock, 1953-50, s. £9B; 4 p.c. Stock, 1946, b. £lOl 7s 6d; 4 p.c. Stcck, 1949-52, b. £lO3 12s 6d; 4 p.c. Stock, 1955. b. £lO7 7s 6d. Banks.—Comm of Aust., b. 16s sd, s. I6s 9d; Comm, of Aust. (pref.), s. £lO 12s 6d; National of A/asia. (£lO paid), s. £l2; N.Z., b. 41s sd, s. 425. Insurance.—Standard, b. 71s 6d. Loan and Agency.—Goldsbrough, Mort. (cum div.), b. 28s Id; Invincible Building, b. 92s 6d; National Mortgage ("A"), b. 55s 9d; National Mortgage (“B”), s. 355; Permanent Investment, b. £lO Ss; Wright, Stephenson, b., 24s 6d. Frozen Meat Canterbury, b. £l3 ss; N.Z. Rferigeratlng (10s paid), b. 12s 3d, s. 12s 6d. Woollens.—Bonds Hosiery, b. 345; Bruce (pref.), b. 22s 9d; Kaiapoi (7s paid), b. 8s; Manawatu, b. 355, s. 43s 3d; Tlmaru, s. 20s Sd. Gas.—Christchurch, b. 25s 3d, s. 265. Breweries.—New Zealand (cum div.). b. 3Gs 9d; Tooheys, b. 30s 9d, s. 325. Miscellaneous.—Berlel (N.Z.), b. 68s; Booth, Macdonald (pref.), b. 8s 3d; British Tobacco (cum div.), s. 47s 9d; C.F.C.A. (Stock), b. £92; C.F.C.A. (ord.), b. 11s; C.F.C.A. (pref.), b. 30s; D.I.C. (10s paid), s. 17s 6d; Electro Zinc, b. 555, s. 565; Griffin and Sons, b. 20s 9d; Greater Crystal, b. 17s; Hays, Ltd., b. 335; Morris Hedstrom (cum div.), b. 265; Macduffs (pref.), b. 225: N.Z. Newspapers, b. 365; Otago Daily Times, b. 43s 6d; United Provisions, b. 13s, s. 14s; Whitcombe and Tombs, b. £5 2s 6d; Tingey, R. and E. (pref.), b. 27s lOd; Weeks, Ltd., b. £lO 10s; Wilson's Cement (cum div.), b. 18s 6d. Australian Mining.—B.H.S., b. 24s Gd, s. 28s 3d; North Broken Hill (ex div.), b. 48s 6d. N.Z. Mining.—Arahura, b. 26s 9d; Grey River (cum div.), b. I3s 9d, s. 14s 6d. AUCKLAND Sales.—Liberty Loan, 15/9/52-55, 3 per cent., £9B 10s; Liberty Loan, 15/5/53-56, 3 per cent., £97 17s 6d (2); National Bank of New Zealand, 51s; New Zealand Insurance, 80s; Farmers’ Auctioneering (B pref,), 23s 9d: New Zealand Laundry. 15s; Woolworths (N.Z.), 15s 4d; Mount Lyell, 295. WELLINGTON Sales (late Friday).—National Bank of New Zealand. 51s; Newton King (pref.), 17s; Colonial Sugar, £55 10s; Macduffs (pref.), 22s 6d; Woolworths Holdings, 24s 6d. Yesterday: National Bank of New Zealand, 51s; Union Bank, £7 12s 6d: Westport Coal, 24s 6d; Wellington Woollen (ord,), £8 ss; Woolworths Holdings, 24s 6d. DUNEDIN Sale Reported.—Late Friday: Colonial Sugar, £55 10s. Yesterday: National Bank of N.Z., 51s; Woolworths (Sydney), 15s lOd; National Insurance, 22s 3d; Inscribed Stock, 4 p.c., 1949-52, £104; N.Z. Insurance, 80s; Westport Coal, 24s 6d.