DEALINGS ON ’CHANGE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 14

DEALINGS ON ’CHANGE

Sales Recorded Yesterday RETURN ON INVESTMENTS Sales recorded cn Dominion Stock Exchanges yesterday are shown in the following list. In the second column is given the return based on the last annual dividend from investment at the quoted prlqe. In calculating the return on shares in companies which pay their dividends outside New Zealand the. exchange rates have not been taken into consideration. The return of 4 per cent. Government loans includes , redemption. In the case of 34 per cent, loans the return is for the interest alone, and covers only the period for which the loans are

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SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE Good Business Yesterday By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 31, 9.35 p.mj Sydney, January 31. On the Sydney .Stock Exchange to-day good business was listed in general industrial shares, and the tone of the market was healthy. Gold shares weakened. Banks were quiet. ' Sales:—National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid. £6/8/-; Queensland National Bank, £5/2/6; United Insurance, £l2 10/-; Australian Provincial Assurance, 11/3; Australian General Assurance, ex dividend,' 16/-. Colonial Sugar, £4l/5/-; Associated News, pref., 24/1-J; Howard'Smith, 17/3; Australian Gas, A, £B/2/-; British Tobacco, 39/6; Tooths, 51/-; Tooheys, 30/6. Australian Glass, 64/-Morris Hedstrom,TB/9; Henry Jones, New Zealand, delivery, 36/6‘; Miilaquin Sugar, ex divi-’ dend, 36/6; Electrolytic Zinc, 21/74; David Jones, 40/6; Anthony Hordern, 19/3; General Industries, 15/-; ditto, pref., 27/3. Euratha Gold, 6/3; Mt s Morgan, 39/6; Broken Hill Proprietary, 53/3; Kuala Kainpar Tin, 13/9; Placer Development, £27/2/-. Morning sales included: —Commonwealth Bonds, 4 per cent., 1935, £104; 1950, £lll/10/-; 1953, £llO/1/3; 1955, £llO/8/9; 1959. £111; Tooheys, 30/6; Anthony Hord,ern, 19/44; Associated News, 24/14; (pref.), 24/3; Austral Glass,, 64/6; British Tobacco, 39/6; Dunlops, 19/104; Goldsbrough, 30/-; Howard Smith, 17/3 ; James Stedman, 17/3. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, January 31. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange to-day included: —Commercial Bank of Australia, 17/-; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £6/9/-; British Tobacco, 39/6; Australian Cement, 26/9; E.S. and A. Bank, £5/2/-; Mt. Dvell, 16/6. Napier Gas' Dividend The Napier Gas Company, Ltd., whose annual, meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 5, has advised the Stock Exchange Association that the directors recommend payment of a further dividend of 2} per cent, on the preference and the ordinary shares, making 5 per cent, .for the year, an unchanged rate. Increase in Capital By Telegraph—Presss Association. Dunedin, January 31. A poll of shareholders in the Trustees, Executors and Agency Company on a proposal to increase the company’s capital resulted in 312 votes for the proposal and 219 against. The company’s capital is therefore increased from 19,000 shares of £5 (£2 paid up) to 29.000 of £5 each. At the Sydney inquiry into the affairs of the McArthur companies, It was disclosed that 7t number of shares in the company had been acquired, ami the directors decided as a precautionary measure that I the capital be Increased. The McArthur group representatives demanded a poll, and the votes have now been recorded. Australian Produce By Telegraph. Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 31. 5.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 31. Wheat: New.grain on country sidings, bagged, 2/44; bulk. 2/34 n bushel; equivalent to about 2/114 ex trucks, Sydney Old season’s grain, 2/94. Sydney basis. Flour, £lO/7/6 a ton. Bran and pollard, £5 a ton. Potatoes. Tasmanian, £7 10/- to £11; Western Australian. £l3. Onions, Victorian, £ll a ton. Maize, .yellow ami white, 3/3 a bushel. Adelaide, January 31. Wheat, growers' lots, new season's, 2/9 to 2/10; old crop, 2/7 a bushel. Flour, -bakers' lots, £lO/12/6. Bran. £5 a too. Pollard. £5/2/6 a ton. Barley, 2/7 to 2/9. Outs, Algerian, 1/10 a bushel.

tax-free. WELLINGTON. Sale price. Yield p.c. on invest. £ s. d. £ s. d. Insc. Stock. 4 p.c. 1946 106 0 0 3 10 9 Chch. City, 5} p.c., 1944, cum. convers 104 0 0 Comm. Bank of Aust. 0 16 6 3 0 7 Bank of N.z., D mort. 1 !) 6 5 1 8 Standard Insurance ■■ *3 12 6 3 9 0 Colonial Sugar (4) ... 41 0 <» 3 9 11 Farmers Trading .... 0 7 7} 3 2 11 Big lliver ’ 0 2 5 —— Ditfn < .. 0 2 4 Unofficial list:— Woohvortlis Ltd., ord. 4 9 0 4 10 0 ... •Late sale Wednesday.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Inscr. Stock, 31 p.c., 1938-32 103 15 0 3 0 0 Bank of N.S.W 31 0 3 4 0 Bank of N.Z. 10 7 3 19 1 Ditto, D mort 1 11 6 4 15 3 Ditto 1 12 0 4 13 9 Reserve Bank () 12 o 3 15 4 Standard Insurance .. 3 12 3 9 0 Westport Coal P. & O. deferred —. 1 0 4 10 11 — 0 —— Staples & Co 1. 12 10 3 0 11 British Tobacco .... 1 18 9 3 1 11 Dominion Fertiliser .. 1 1 6 2 15 10 Waihl G. Junction (2) 0 4 7 5 0 Unofficial Ligt* Woolworths Ltd., ord. 4 10 6 —

CHRISTCHURCH. £ s. d. £ s. d. Inscr. stock, 4 pc., 1937-40 103 10 0 3 5 4 Govt. bonds, 4 p.c., 1937-40 103 10 0 3 5 4 Bank of N.S.W 31 ;> (1 3 4 0 N.Z. Refwg., £1 paid 1 0 9 6 0 Staples & Co • 1 13 0 3 0 7 Alexander Mines 0 17 fl —- Ditto 0 18 3 ■* - 0 IS 9 _— Ditto 0 19 3 — ■ 0 0 71 —— Maori Gully 0 1 T> — Ditto (3) 0 1 4 1 —— Lawson’s Flat 0 0 — Mossy Creek 0 — 0 8 — — Skippers (2) 0 0 6 — Worksop Ext 0 2 JU — Sales reported: Bank N.Z., D mort. ... 1 8 9 u 4 4 Reserve Bank 0 12 9 . 3 15 4 Dalgety anil Co. 8 13 0 2 17 8 Skippers (4) {.. 0 0 6 .—. Unofficial List: Woolworths Ltd., ord. 4 11 (» Ditto 4 11 9 ■ 4 11 0 — DUNEDIN. £ s. d. p. s» d.« Bank N.Z., D mort. (2) 1 9 3 0 2 7 Southland Meat 3 17 9 3 8 7 Westport Coal 2 0 4 10 11 Wright, Stephenson, p -1 0 0 10 0 Afftimf .’XTnr.o'fin 0 — Inscr. stock, 4 p.c., 1949 100 15 0 3 9 9