FINANCE & COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 21, 20 October 1942, Page 3

FINANCE & COMMERCE

WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Yesterday’s Quotations The Latest buying and selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exchanges were as follows:

AUCKLAND. War Loan, 21 per cent 1946. £96/5/-; Inscr. .Stock, 31 per cent., UM7-00, hint 10/-: Bank of N.Z., £l/19/-; Comm. Bank of Aust. (2), 14/8; Lank of biJS.W., £-J IS/-- Bartholomew Timber, £1; Broken Hill Pty., £l/19/9; Colonial Sugar 10/-’ Reid Rubber, new issue, £l/2/«. Selfridges (A’asia), 17/9; Woolworths (N.Z.), 14/10. CHRISTCHURCHLiberty Loan, 3 ]).<?., 1952-55 £99/10/-: Bank of N.Z. (3), £2/1/0; N.Z Farmers Co-op., A pref., £l/15/-: South British Insurance, *£3/4/6, £3/4/-; Broken Hill Pty., £l/19/9. •Late sale Friday. . DUNEDIN’. War Loan, 1/10/53, £93; laser Stock, 4 p.c„ 1952-55. £lO7/12/0; N.Z. Refrig., 10/paid, 10/3; Colonial .Sugar, £u2/10/-; N.A. Drug Co., new issue, £2/3/-. _ Gold Mining The Ngahere dredge returned 2230 z. for 240 hours from 110,257 yards. The Gillespies Beach return for the week ended October 17 was 35 ounces lor 118 hours from 14,500 yards. Pukekohe Produce Prices Dominion Special Service. PUKEKOHE. October 19. With a falling off of the demand at the high prices ruling last Monday, cabbages aud cauliflowers grown at Pukekohe have declined sharply in value. Today cabbages were going away at 10/- a Chapman bag, which compares with a top price ol 16/6 last week, while cauliflowers are now at 12/- against’lo/- a week ago. Business in swedes is still being done at !*-/• * cwt.* carrots and parsnips are nominally still at-2.1/- per cwt., but supplies meanwhile are almost exhausted. The price order now applicable makes potatoes £3l, 10/- a ton. as against £35 a week ago, but the demand is still far heavier than the supply. Trade iu plants is at present quiet.

N.Z. GOVERNMENT LOANS. .. Buyers. Al s. d. boilers, di s. d. 2J p.e., 1/8/46 98 a 0 — 2} p.e., 15/9/47 97 0 0 — 3 p.e., 15/7/1945 300 0 0 —— 3 p.e., 15/9/46-48 99 7 n 3 p.e., 1/8/51-54 99 r> 4 p.e., 45/2/43-46 ..... 400 0 —- 4 p.e., 30/11/1948 .... 104 15 0 4 p.e., 15/4/4C-49 — 103 5 0 4 p.e., 31/5/54-58 107 10 0 —— 4 p.e., 15/2/43-48 100 0 War Loan, 1933 92 7 6 Liberty Bonds 0 17 9 MISCELLANEOUS. Co in in. Bank Aust. .. — 0 14 11 Nat. Bank of N.Z. ... • ’ 4 9 Bank N.S.W 29 10 0 Bank New Zealand ... —— c2 1 6 Ditto, D. Mort cl 10 9 Union Bunk — 7 12 6 Equit. Bldgs., iil pd. Ditto, 10/- paid .... 0 19 9 — 0 9 N.Z. Guarantee Corp. xO A. 10 0 3 O W.F.C.A., pref 0 ;j 3 . — Wgtn. Inv., T. & A. 0 6 9 — Wgtn. T. & Loan ... .1 10 0 — Wright, Stephenson .. 0 19 0 —— Wellington Gas, ord. . 1 9 0 —— Ditto, pref 1 — — National Insurance .. 1 0 9 New Zealand Insurance o 12 O South British Insurance — x3 4 o Standard Insurance . 3 6 0 —" Queensland Insurance — 11 0 — Gear Meat 0 17 t'l N.Z. Refrig., Ill 1 1 9 — Wgtn. Meat Export . 0 8 0 6 Huddart, Barker .... — 2 6 P. & 0 1 16 0 _ — Bond’s Hosiery Mills 1 8 0 —— Felt and Textiles .... 1'18 0 — Manawatu 1 10 0 — Oamaru 1 O 0 Prestige, pref Tirnaru 1 — 6 0 19 6 Wellington Woollen . 7 1 0 7 15 Ditto, pref 7 6 f> 0 Leyland-O’Brien Timber Taupo Totara Timber 0 17 — 0 «> f) N.Z. Breweries 1 13 6 Booth Macdonald, pref. —• 0 7 0 Broken Hill Pty •—— 2 0 6 Colonial Sugar 51 15 0 — D.I.C., ord Ditto,' pref 0 1 14 4 6 — Dunlop Rubber 0 IS 3 — Electro. Zinc, pref. .. x 7 0 —- Fletcher Hldgs., pref. 1 1 6 Griffin & Sons, £1 pd. 0 14 3 — Ditto, 10/- paid .... 0 7 u 2 16 G. .1. Coles __ Macduffs, ord 0 9 — N.Z. Newspapers 1 13 0 N.Z. Paper Mills 1 14 o — R. & E. Tingey, pref. 1 •& 0 Sharland and Co. ... 1 3 0 Victoria Laundry .... 0 15 0 0 6’3 Taranaki Oil Wilson’s Cement .... 0 17 Wm. Cable, pref. .... xl 1 9 0 15 Woolworths (N.Z.) ... Ditto, pref 1 16 6 Ditto, Properties .. 3 Barrytown 0 9 9 7 Maori Gold 3 Martha 0 8 DEBENTURES. Ainalg. Brick (Auck.), 6 p.e., 1/3/44 — 101 10 0 UNOFFICIAL LIST. ,T. J. Niven 0 9 9 — Frozen Products 0 0 6 Paparoa Coal ........ E. W. Mills N.Z. Oil Concessions . 1 15 0 4 10 2 5 0 0 Wellington Publishing rn Co c Cum dividend. s Ex dividend. Stock Exchange Sales Denlines in stocks and shares recorded Exchanges yesterdnv were as follows, the number of snares in each lot being shown in me case WELLINGTON. No. of shares. . . , £1000 laser. Stock, 31 per cent., 1957-60 Sate price. £ s. d. 101 10 0 £615 Ditto, 4 per cent , 1»52)o 107 10 0 28 Bank of N.S.W. (3) 29 15 0 100 Timaru Woollen 0 19 0 124 McKenzie’s Stores . 2 0 0 240 Woolworths (Syd.) .. • 0 15 6