ABOVE PAR

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 12

ABOVE PAR

Quite naturally many ■ shareholders resident in New Zealand .ire uneasy in their minds-as.-, to the course, of prices realised.for shares -in leading. Australian investments, .bank-shares, for example. The table hereundcr has therefore been prepared to aliow that such investments, for all that they have substantially fallen m price since, this time last year, are generally well above par. The prices are to be taken as rough averages, as shares have been sold at above and below prices quoted.

:.;•:.■•: ..:■ . :;:..: ..Enid per . Market ' Market ..■ . : shares . ; 1st Sept., Div. loth Sept., ■- .-■.■■• ■ ■ - : 1929. p.c. 1930. Share. '- ' '■■■■"£. • . £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank of N.Z. ..... 1 • 3 30 141-3 2 16.0 National of N.Z 2% 7 0 0 14 5 13 0 Union Bank 5 15 2 6 15 10 0 0 Bank N.S. Wales 20 52 0 0 12% 31 0 0 Bank Australasia* 5 14 12 6 l 14 11 10 0 Commercial Bank % 110 0 15 . 0 18 0 Australian Bank Commerce .. 1 1 16 G 8. . 10 0 Commercial of Sydney 12% . 26 4 0 10 "19 0 0 E.S. and A. Bank 3 8 9 0 12% 5 12 0 National of Australasia 10 19 15 0 10 13 0 0 N.Z. Insurance 1 2 8 0 1111-24 2 2 6 South British I 3 8 0 1211-12 18 3 Standard Inpurance T 3 7 0 12%' • -2 18 0 Queensland Insurance 1. 3 5 0 12% 2 5 0 Dalgety 5 Jo 4 0 17 9 0 0 Ooldsbrougu. M'ort I -'SO 15 ■ 12 0 P. and 0. Deferred I. • 2 17 0 li! • 2 3 6 Huddart-Parker (ovd.) I 2 0 0 10 \ 13 0 N rA. Breweries I 4 4 10 1,> 2 8 6 Colonial SugaL- 20 37 TO 0 12'i 31 5 0 Div. p.c. 141-3 12 12% 10 14 13 7 10 12% 10 9 202 12 11-12 12% 12% 17 10 11 1 i.n l.i i:% Prices in every instance arc approximate. Dividends include bonus.