THE SHARE MARKET

Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 1

THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. There were no sales reported or recorded on the Stock Exchange this morning. All hanking shares were firm. Buyers for National Insurances improved their offer to 15s 2d, but sellers would not ouote under 15s 6d. New Zealand Insurance Company shares were quoted cx dividend of lid, the buyers offering 40s. There were buyers for all classes of shipping share# this morning. New Zealand Refrigerating shares (fully paid) were quoted ex dividend at Is 6d at the morning call, the buying quotation for-the fully paid being 16s 6a, and 7s lOd for the contributing issue. Staples's Breweries were also quoted es dividend, the dividend being at the rate of 5 per cent., plus a bonus of 15 per cent., making 4s in all. The quotation was: Buyers 365, sellers 40s. Mount Lyells were wanted at 29s 6d, without any Heller. Government Stocks were practically unaltered. Quotations as under:

Buyer*. Seller*. £ s. d. £ i. d. BANKING— Bank, of Aust 14 4 0 Bank of New Zealand 2 18 9 2 ll 5 Bank of New Zealand, Long “D” 1 6 0 Commercial Bank I 6 0 1 7 3 Cora. Bank (rights) ... 0 6 6 E.S. and A. Bank ... 7 16 0 _ Natl. Bank of N.Z. ... 6 18 0 _ Natl. Bank of Aust, (coot.) 3 15 0 • Union Bank of Aust., Ltd 14 10 0 - ! ! Union Bank of Aust. (now) 14 2 0 . «« 1 INSURANCE— National Insur. Co. ... 0 IS 2 .0 15 6 N.Z. Insurance Co. (ex div.) 2 0 0 South Brit. Insur. Co. 2 17 6 2 18 5 Standard Insur. Co. ... 3 2 0 —i SHIPPING— Adelaide Shipping Co. 1 S 0 Burns, Philp 2 0 0 Howard Smith 2 8 6 _ Huddart, Park, (ord.) 2 10 3 — Huddart, Park, (pref.) 1 0 11 — P. and 0. Def. Stock 237 0 0 250 0 0 U.S.S. Co. (pref.) ... 1 0 0 1 3 0 COAL— Westport Coal Co. ... 1 11 6 1 12 6 Westport-Stock, (ord.) — 0 1 6 Westport-Stock, (pref.) — 0 3 6 LOAN AND AGENCY— Dalgety and Co. 14 0 0 National Mortgage ... 3 13 0 _ N.Z. Loan and Mer. (ord.) 97 0 0 Perpetual Trustees ... 3 1 0 — Trustees, Executors ... — 3 1 0 MEAT PRESERVING— N.Z. Refrigerating (paid, es div.) N.Z. Refrigerat. (oont., ex div.) 0 16 6 0 7 10 0 8 0 Southland Frozen Meat (ord.) 1 11 0 — i MISCELLANEOUS— Auckland ' Amusement Park, Ltd. (ord.) ... 0 IS I 0 British Tobacco, 1.19 5 — Brown, Ewing (ord,)... — 1:11 8 Bruce Woollen Co. (ord-) 0 H 0 i 1 Crystal Ice Co. ... 0 19 0 D.i.C. (pref.) ... 1 0 6 . — OH Dominion Rubber — t 5 Donaghy’s Rope and Twin 6 1 13 9 j Mil. Lime and Cement (ord.) 1 12 3 1 15 s\ M'Leod Bros. Soap... 30 0 0 — National Electric — 0 11 6 N.Z. Express (ord.) ... 1 0 9 — 8. N.Z. Express (pref.)... 0 17 0 0 19 N.Z. Paper Mills — 0 17 <»: ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ 3 11 0 — ■or Wilson’s Port. Cement 2 17 0 2 18 BREWERIES— N.Z. Breweries, Ltd.... Staples’s Brewery (ex div.) 2 19 6 3 i 0 1 15 0 2 0 0 Ward and Co 1 12 0 118 0 MINING— Kawarau 0 0 6 1 Nokomai Sluicing — ,1 14 0 Waibi — 0 11 0 Elect. Zinc (pref.) ... 1 12 0 — Elect. Zinc (dcf. ord.) ' 1 11 0 — Mount Lycll 1 9 6 — Mount Isa — 1 6 6 Molyneux Electric 0 12 0 — Big Beach 0 18 0 -* WAR BONDS (Bonds quoted arc £100 Bonds)— 1930 4t p.o. Bonds ... 97 10 0 1938 41- p.c. Bonds 97 0 0 — 1959 4£ p.c. Bonds 971 0 0 — 1939 4i p.c. Inscribed... — 97 5 0 1933 5!, p.c. S.S. Insc. — 101 2 6 1936 5i p.c. Bonds — 101 5 0