THE SHARE MARKET

Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 1

THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE No sales wore recorded cu 'Change Udft morning. The transactions on 'Change have been few and tar between during the last few days, but a lair amount of business has been done between the calls. Buyers of E.S. and A. Banks improved their quotations to £7 18s 6d (his morning without any response from sellers For Kaitangata Coals buyers offered 4s discount, with sellers asking 2s discount. A buyer of Westport Coals was prepared to give £1 10s 6d this morning, but there was no : seller under £1 11s 9d. There was a close market in Dalgetj*, buyers offering £l3 16s, with no sellers under £l3 18s. A buying offer for New Zealand Breweries at £2 2s was received, but the best sellers asked £2 3s 6d. Upper Nevises were slightly firmer, with buyers at 19s and sellers at £1 Is. The War Bond section underwent practically no change. . Quotations as under;

Buyers £ ». d. /■tt BANKING— Bauk of Australasia 14 12 0 Bank of N.S.W. — 48 0 0 Bank of New Zealand 2 18 9 9 19 0 Bank of New Zealand, Long “D” . 1 6 0 T Commercial Bank ... 1 7 5 1 7 9 Com. Bank (rights) ... 0 7 2 — E.S. and A. Bank i 18 6 — Natl. Bank of N.Z. — 7 0 0 Natl. Bank of Aus. ... 17 lo 0 — Nat. Bank of Aus. (cont.) 8 17 0 9 2 0 Union Bank of Aust., Ltd. 14 12 6 — INSURANCE— Natl. Insurance Co. ... 0 15 4 0 15 8 N.Z. Insurance Co. ... 2 0 0 — Standard Insurance Co. 0 2 0 — SHIPPING— Adelaide Steam. Co. 1 5 6 ~~ Huddart, Parker (ord.) 2 10 3 — Huddart, Parker (prof.l 1 0 10 — P. and 0. Def. Stock 239 0 0 248 0 0 U.S.S. Co. tprcf.J ... 1 0 0 1 0 3 COAL— Kaitaugata Coal (disc.) 0 4 6 0 2 0 Westport Coal Co. ... 1 10 6 1 11 9 Westport-Stock, (pref.) — 0 3 6 LOAN AND AGENCY— Dalgety and Co. 13 16 0 13 18 0 National Mortgage ... 3 14 0 — N.Z. Loan and Mer. (ord.) 93 0 0 — Perpetual Trustees ... 3 1 0 — Wright, Steph. (ord.) 1 0 6 — Wright, Steph. (pref.) 0 15 0 _ MEAT PRESERVING— N.Z. Refrig. (cont.)... 0 7 9 0 8 3 South. Frozen Meat (ord.) 1 11 6 — MISCELLANEOUS— Auckland Amusement Park, Ltd. (ord.) ... — 0 15 0 British Tobacco 1 19 6 2 0 3 Brown, Ewing (ord.) Bruce Woollen Co. — 1 11 0 0 11 0 — Crystal Ice Co. 0 19 0 — D.i.O. (pref.) Eouagfay's Rope and Twine 1 0 1 13 6 9 Duncdin-Kaik. Trams — 1 14 0 Dunedin Stock Exchange Propty. ... — 4 1 0 Eclipse Petrol (paid) — 0 10 3 Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) 0 3 0 — Milburn Lime and Cement (ord.) 1 12 5 1 15 0 M'Leod Bros. Soap ... 30 0 0 — Q N.Z. Express (pref.) ... N.Z. Malay Rubber 0 19 (ord.) ~ 1 10 9 N.Z. Milk Products (bonds) 1 2 0 — N.Z. Paper Mills ... — 0 17 0 N.Z. Sugar of Milk — i I 0 ‘Otago Daily Times’ 3 11 0 — Taranaki Oil 0 9 9 •— Wilson’s Portland Com, 1 17 0 BREWERIES— N.Z. Breweries, Ltd. 2 2 0 2 3 6 N.Z. Breweries Debs. 1 2 9 1 3 S Ward and Co 1 13 0 1 15 0 MINING— Kawarau 0 0 6 0 i 0 Waihi 0 9 6 0 10 6 Elec. Zinc (pref.) ... 1 12 3 — Electrolytic Zinc (def. 1 11 0 ord.) — 0 Mount Lyejl 1 9. 6 1 10 Molyneux Electric 0 13 0 0 18 0 Upper Nevis 0 19 0 X 1 0 WAR BONDS (Bonds quoted are £100 Bonds) — 1930 4 ip.o. Bonds 97 10 0 — 1938 4i p.c. Bonds ... 9/ 0 0 — 1939 4i p.c. Bonds ... 9/ 0 0 — 1933 p.c. S.S. Bonds — 101 5 0 1938 4J, p.c. Inscribed 96 17 6 — 1939 4 1 p.c Inscribed 96 17 6 — 6 1955 5* p.c. S.S. Insc. 98 0 101 2 1930 5i p.c. Bonds ... u — 0 1936 f>i p.c. Bonds ... — 101 5 1936 51 p.c. Insc. ... _ 101 5 0