FINANCE & COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 257, 29 July 1942, Page 3

FINANCE & COMMERCE

WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Yesterday’s Quotations The Latest buying ami selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exchange were as follows: — N.Z. GOVERNMENT EOANS.

O V ERS EAS EIS I INGS. Wuolworf hs Holdings (&<»uth Africa) ... -- 0 io o e Cum dividend, x I’.x dividend. Blackwater And Consolidated Dividends Blackwater Mini's I.HI. have declared a final dividend of'.hl. a share for 11111. aolidated (loldlk-lds have declared a dividend of -Mil. a share on account of lull. Both dividends are lax free and are pu.vable on August 11 in equivalent British currency. Transfer hooks will he. closed from July 2|) till August 10, inclusive. Air Travel (N.Z.) Year Allowing depreciation on aeroplanes and hangars, Air Travel (N.Z.) year's, opera tlons resulted in a profit of £ P.H>. I lie credit, balance in appropriation account £7.7.1, of which £l2O has been transferred to taxation reserve and £3OO to insur anee reserve. A dividend of 3 per cent is recommended by the directors, leaving £137 to be carried forward.

Stock Exchange Sales Dealings in stocks and shares recorded on New Zealand Stock Exchanges yesterday were as follows, the number of shares in each lot being shown in the case of Wellington

AUCK LAND. Liberty Loan. .3 per cent.. 195*2-55. £99 ‘2/G; Bank of N.Z., £l/19/-: N.Z. Insurance, ex div.. £3/7/-; Dominion Breweries. £1 ../-; M.K. Manufacturers, 5/l>; N.Z. Drug Co., £1 pa I<l. £‘2/2/-; N.Z. Guarantee Corp., *2/9. CIIKISTUiiUKCII. Liberty Loan. 3 p.c.. 195*2-55. £99; Inscr. Stock. 3 p.c., 1951-54. £190: ditto. 4 p.c., 1943-11) (*2). £lo*2: Comm. Bank of Aust., pref., *£9/12/0: E.S. & A. Bank. C3/10/-: N.Z. Refrlg., 10/- paid. 9/11; Westport Stockton, 3/-: Colonial Sugar. £4B: N.Z. Drug Co., £1 paid, £‘2/*2/-. sale Monday. DUNEDIN. Nat. Bank of A/asia. £1.1; Nat. Electric, ■ei/i/-. British Tobacco Dividend 'The British Tobacco i o. (A’asia), Lid., has declared a preference dividend for the throe months to July 31. payable on August. *2l. Transfer books will close ou August Dow Jones Averages (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) NEW YORK. .July 27. Dow ,lunes average (19*20 equals 100) and turnover on the N<*w York Stock Exchange compare as follows: —

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20 Railroads. Indust rials. Shares . sold. 1911 (high) . ,. 30.88 133.50 — 1941 (low) . .. 24.45 109.27 — July 18 .. 25.00 107.09 100,(KK) July ‘20 ,. 25.79 107.98 214.000 July 24 2(1.01 10(1.37 •JlW.OOO July . 26.10 106.66 260,000