FINANCE & COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 3

FINANCE & COMMERCE

WELLINGTON EXCH/XNGE Yesterday’s Quotations The latest buying and selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exchange were as follows: — N.Z. GOVERNMENT EOANS.

Stock Exchange Sales Dealings in stocks and shares recorded on“’Zealand .Stock Exchanges yestersaieprice £ s. d. b 200N.Z. Guarantee Corpn. . xO 211 250 Dominion Fertilizer .. ■■ £ * HOO Woolworths (N.Z.), ord. . 01* 10 x Ex dividend. AUCKLAND. Er Aiming £l/2/8; Auckland Gas, perp, deb?®' £B7/10/-’(odd lot); Selfridges (N.z.), </-. CHBISTCHUBC n. N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. (B P r ® f -)> T £K B>/ 'j Slab Hut (5/-_paid), 5/a; Union Bank of Australia. £7/5/-. DUNEDIN. Bruce Woollen (ord.),, £l/5/3. Vegetable Prices Dominion Special, Service. PUKEKhHE, October 27. The demand for new- potatoes from Pukekohe still exceeds the supplj. A.fa rly large volume ot' business is 'being transacted with the price to merchants still " ? 31/10/- a ton. which' is the ceiling rate under the price order which came into force about 10 days ago. Cabbages today were going away from Pukekohe at 11/- a chapman bag to a strong demand.J l '®? have risen a shilling a bag since the beginning ot last week. Cauliflowersi are still 12/- a chapman bag, swedes 1-/- a cwt. and carrots and parsnips 21/- a cwt., hut the Quotations for root vegetables are little more than nominal because of the scarcity of supplies.

Gold Mining The report on the operations of Mount Morgan, l-til., for the four weeks ended September 23, shows a.working surplus tor the period of £12.000, gold being■ takei; at SAO/11/- an ounce, copper at.CAOO n ton, and silver at A2/- an ounce. Hie surplib includes £lOO2, net value of metals In concentrates produced in previous- working periodo, but provision is not made preciation, overhead expenses of £ - oW’> and preference share dividend of. £l-'>L-Capital expenditure amounted to £lbtw, and air raid precautions expenditure to £lO5. _ . , , Company Dividends

V hait-vearlv dividend of <sd. a share, Australian currency, has been declared by the Broken Hill Proprietary. The div(lend is payable o-a hovember 27, and transfer books will be closed on October 'The directors of Alloy Steel I'l*l.> have declared an interim dividend, payable on October 23, of 34 per cent, for the hluf-year ended September 30.

Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. < 98 5 0 2* p.c., 15/9/47 97 7 G — 3 p.c., 15/7/1945 ICO 0 (I — 3 p.e„ 15/9/46-48 99 10 0 —• 3 p.c., J/8/51-54 99 5 U — 3i p.c., 15/1/50-59 .... 3} p.c., 15/9/37-60 .... .101 5 9 —- 101 0 0 —— 4 p.c., 15/2/43-46 100 5 0 —— 4 p.c., 30/11/1948 .... .105 2 6 •— 4 p.c., 15/6/52-55 107 5 0 — 4 p.C., 31/«>/54-5S .... 107 10 0 —— 4 p.c., 15/2/43-46 11)0 5 0 r— 107 5 0 — War Loan. 1953 .... 92 10 0 Libnrfv Bonds 0 17 9 — 311SCELLAN EOUS. Bank of Australasia . 8 5 0 —— Comm. Bank Aust. .. 0 14 8 9 10 0 ■■■ ■■ Nat. Bank of N.Z. .. 2 4 9 — Bank New Zealand ... 1 19 9 —— Ditto, D. Mort. ... 1 10 9 —— — 7 11 0 N.Z. Guarantee Corp. 0 2 10 — N.Z. Inv., Mtg. & Dep. (1 8 9 •— N.Z. Loan and Mere. 28 0 0 •— W.F.C.A.. pref. 0 5 3 —— Wgtn. Tnv.,- T. & A. 0 6 11 0 7 3 Wgtn. T. & Loan .... 3 10 0 —• Wright. Stephenson .. 0 19 0 — Wellington Gas, ord. . 1 9 3 — 1 2 0 National'insurance .. 10 9 South British Insurance — L» 4 Queensland Insurance 2 11 0 — Standard Insurance • 3 < 0 — 0 17 3 — Wgtn. Meat Export . P; & 0 0 8 0 — 1 17 0 — Bond's Hosiery Mills 1 8 0 — Helt and Textiles ... • 1 18 0 — Kaiapol Woollen 0 18 3 — Manawatu Woollen .. . 1 10 0 Oamaru Woollen . • • • 13 0 — 1 2 6 Tltnaru Woollen — 0 19 Wellington Woollen 1 4 0 ■— 7 12 0 Levland-O’Brien Timber 0 18 0 — Taupo Totara Timber Out) — N.Z. Breweries 1 13 6 0 7 Booth Macdonald, pref — 0 Broken Hill Pty e2 0 0 3 Cox Bros I) T 0 14 6 — 1 4 6 — Dunlop llubber . 0 18 3 — Electro. Zinc. pref. . 2 7 0 Griffin & Sons, £1 Pd Ditto. 10/- paid ... 0 15 0 ■ 0 7 6 0 5 9 0 17 3 — 13 6 National Electric ... N T 7 Dr pg Co 3 17, 0 n'z. Newspapers .... 1 13 0 —• N.Z. Paper Mills ... 1 14 4 It. & E. Tlngey. pref 1 2 0 Sharland and Co. .. 1 3 3 0 6 0 ■ ■ Victoria Laundry ... 0 15 0 Wilson’s Cement .... 0 17 3 xl 1 9 Win. Cable, pref Woolworths Ltd. ... 0 16 0 15 0 0 Woolworths ((N.Z.) . Ditto. Properties . 1 o 3 0 9 9 Grey Elver 0 13 0 0 14 0 0 0 New Occidental 0 7 9 '— UNOFFICIAL LIST. N.Z. Oil Concessions., f yiwn 1 10 0 0 9 9 2 0 0 — 0 4 6 c Cum dividend. x Ex dividend.