TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 486, 16 October 1928, Page 12

TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Closing Quotations at to-day’s mid day call were:

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES YESTERDAY’S SALES Press Association Wellington. New Zealand Government, 5i per cent, stock, 1933 (two), £lOl 6s; Kauri Timber, 19s; British Tobacco, 438 9d: National Insurance, 16s 3d; Bank of New Zealand, 61s 3d. Christchurch. Union Bank of Australia, £ls 6s 6d (two), £ls 7s 6d, £ls 7s; New Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid), Ss 7d; New Zealand Breweries, 54s 3d; Ward’s Brewery. 435; British Tobacco, 43s 9d, 43s lOd (six); Mahakipawa, Is 8d (six). Is 7d (three). Is 6d (12), Is 5d (three); English. Scottish and Australian Bank. £8 17s; Wilsons Cement, 39s 3d. Dunedin.—New Zealand Breweries /shares), 54s 6d; National Bank of Australasia (con.), £9 13s. .WAIRARAPA FARMERS’ CO-OP. WRITING DOWN OF CAPITAL A proposal to write down the ordinary Phare capital of the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association by 66 1-3 per cent, is put forward in the directors' report for the year ended July 31. 1928. The rights of the preference shareholders will not be interfered with, but accumulated dividends paid as the opportunity offers. The report states that the affairs of the company have been subjected to an exhaustive investigation and all losses written off. Wherever possible an en-■ dpavour has been made to keep mortgagors and lessees on their farms, the directors hoping to reap the benefit of this policy in future years. COMPANY REGISTRATIONS Two private companies were registered tn Auckland yesterday. Details are: Girvin and Parker, Limited, which will take over and carry on the drapery business of House and Baking. Limited, at Taumarunui. Capital, £7,500, in £1 shares. Subscribers: Frank Cornelius House, 3,700 shares: William Girvin, 2,200 shares; Edward Parker, 1,500 shares; and Richard English. 100 shares. Invincible Boat and Engine Company, Limited. Objects, to carry on the business of boat builders, etc., at present conducted by the Invincible Boat and Engine Company. Capital, £SOO, in £1 shares. Subscribers: John Richard Hodgkinson, 499 shares: and Minnie Evelyn I-lodgkin-son, one share*. CHEAPER NEW POTATOES (From Our Otcn Correspondent) PUKEKOHE, Monday, price of locally-grown new potatoes has eased during the past week, today s quotations being 27s to 28s a cwt lukekohe. against 3|d a lb last ' eh ' supplies continue to increase.

EGGS FOR OVERSEAS UNIFORM GRADE WANTED Producers throughout the Dominion are not taking advantage of the Government guarantee of £3 os a case of 30 dozen eggs, according to Mr. F. C. Brown, chief Government poultry inspector, at a meeting of the Auckland Egg-producers’ Association last evening. Mr. Brown was referring to the need of getting the eggs into grade store for shipment by the Port Darwin, which leaves Auckland during the /third week in November. He also commented on the need of improving the size and quality of the eggs sent forward for shipment. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. CHICAGO, Monday. Wheat. December, 1 dollar 15| cents a bushel; March, 1 dollar 202 cents; May, 1 dollar 23 3-S cents. MINING NEWS LUCKY SHOT.—The manager reports: “The drive south on the main reef off the bottom of No. 2 winze has been extended 10ft On Wednesday last a fault was met with and disturbed the reef to a considerable extent. The reef is now beginning to show up again in the face and is 2ft wide, carrying a splendid class of andesite on both walls. Just where the faulting took place, the ore showed strong colours of gold.”

THE WISDOM OF THE AGES Mr. Wm. Perkins Bull, K.C., 8.A., of Victoria University, and LL.B. of Toronto University, a distinguished Canadian, well known as the Founder and President of the Perkins Bull Hospital for Canadian officers, which carried its beneficent work throughout the Great War, writes in “New Health” as follows: “It has been reserved for America to show that prohibition is the mother of drunkenness, though the older nations who have faced the problem for thousands of years could have told her that you can no more make men sober by Act of Parliament than you can make them happy by Act of Parliament. America has done the cause of temperance more harm than any publican could ever have done had set set out to do harm of set purpose.”—Advt.

Buyers. Selle rs. £ s . d. £ s. d. BANKS— Aua. Bank of Com. • ■ , 1 13 Ditto (pref.) .. •• — 18 0 Bni?., Scot. Aua. 5 New South Wales . 51 7 6 51 New Zealand . . 6 0 *> Ditto D Mort (20s paid) Union of Aust 15 S 6 15 6 6 INSURANCE — 0 7 6 National New Zealand .. .. 5 South British .. .. — 3 Queensland — *•» 5 — DOAN AND AGENCY— Dalgety and Co. .. — 15 0 6 3 10 0 Ditto A (pier.) .. Goldsbrough, Mort . 11 6 National Mort. 4 Newton King (pref.) N.Z. and River It N.Z. Loan and Mer. 116 Ditto (pref.) .. . . N. Auck. Farmers’ — 82 0 0 Co-op. (ord.) .. .. — 0 2 0 COAL— Hikurangi 0 - 11 0 5 6 Ditto (pref.) .. .. — 10 Ditto A (pref.) .. 0 8 9 10 6 3 S 3 Renown 0 15 6 0 14 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 3 0 Taupiri 1 7 6 1 6 6 Ditto (pref.) .. •. 1 3 0 Waipi 0 14 0 Westport 10 Westport-Stockton . 0 3 10 0 3 6 Ditto (pref.) .. ... — 0 4 0 GAS— 4 Auckland .. *. 3 2 1 3 0 Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 I 2 0 17 0 Christchurch 1 6 0 —. SHIPPING— Huddart-Parker S 0 2 - 6 Ditto (pref.) .. .,4 1 0 6 Northern Steam .. 0 14 0 14 3 Ditto (con.) . . 0 7 0 0 6 7 r. & O. (def. stk) : 260 0 0 0 0 Union Steam (pref.) TIMBER— 1 0 t> Bartholomew .. .. 1 1 0 — Kauri Timber .. .. 1 0 0 Leyland-O’Brien 1 14 0 National .. .. — — 0 11 0 — WOOLLEN— Kaiapoi .. . . M M 0 13 0 Ditto (con.) .. 0 4 9 0 4 0 Ditto (pref.)'.. 0 14 9 0 13 6 Mosgiel .. .. • • M 7 3 0 Wellington .. .. 6 12 6 Ditto (pref.) .. BREWERIES— “ 15 C. L. Innes (pref.) I 0 6 0 18 6 N.Z. Breweries .. .. 2 13 6 Tooths 2 s 6 2 7 6 MISCELLANEOUS— Auck. Amuse. Park 0 3\ 6 British Tobacco 2 4 0 6 Burns, Philp &. Co. 4 6 4 0 Bycroft, Ltd 1 15 0 1 11 6 «’hecker Taxicab . . 0 12 0 Colonial Sugar (Aus.) 63 0 0 Dental and Medical. 0 14 0 Dominion Pictures , 1 Ditto (pref.) .. .. Electrolytic Zinc — 1 2 0 (pref.) -. 14 3 1 13

Sellers. Buyers. Fuller’s Pictures ... 1 1 0 Gear Meat 1 Grey &. Menzies 0 9 6 Hayward’s Pictures. 1 1 6 l 1 0 H.M. Arcade 2 2 6 Ditto (pref.) . . . . 1 1 0 Kempthorne Prosser 3 9 6 Lewis Eady (pref. > 0 19 Milne and Choyce . . l 6 Ditto (pref.) . . . . l 6 Ditto (“B" pref.) . 1 4 6 Ditto (deb. stock) 1 National Pictures . . 0 IS' 6 N.Z. Farmers’ Fertiliser (Jo Morris Hedstrom N.Z. Refrigerating (con.) 0 0 Robinson Ice Cream 1 Sanford. Ltd 0 19 0 0 17 9 Sharland (pref.) Taranaki Oil Fields 0 Thames Theatre . - 0 16 0 Tonson Garliek 0 12 6 0 11 0 Union Oil 6 Whittome Stevensons 2 8 0 2 Wilsons Cement 1 Farmers' Trading Ditto, B (pref.) . . 0 MINING — Alburnia 0 0 S — Moanataiari (paid) 0 1 6 — Ditto (con.) . . . . 0 0 6 Golden Age (paid) 0 0 Lucky Shot (4s paid) 0 0 6 Maoriland (con.) .. 0 0 Ohinemuri (ord.) .. 0 7 0 0 Waihi 0 14 3 0 14 1 Waihi Grand June. 0 0 11 0 0 9 Mount Lyell 1 16 0 1 14 9 DEBENTURES— Auckland Gas, 1928, 6} p.c 103 10 0 102 0 0 Auckland Har. Boa re 89 0 0 Ditto, 5i p.c 96 0 0 Ditto, 5 h P-c 100 0 0 Ditto, 6 p.c 103 0 0 City Auckland, 1940, 5& p.c. 96 0 0 Ditto. 1943, 5-5 p.c. 100 0 0 Auck. Power Board, 5i p.c 99 0 0 Auck. Fire Board, 6 104 10 0 101 10 0 Hamilton Fire Board, 6 p.c 103 10 0 100 0 0 Borough Devonport, 6 101 0 0 Borough Mt. Eden, 5? p.c 100 0 0 Ditto, 6 p.c 102 0 0 Borough Hamilton, 6 p.c 102 0 0 Buller County, 1940, 5 p.c 93 10 0 Hamilton Theatres, 98 0 0 N.Z. Breweries 1 4 6 1 4 Glaxo — 90 0 0 GOVERNMENT BONDS -3 N.Z. War Doan, 1930 4£ p.c 100 0 0 99 0 0 Ditto, 1938, 4a p.c. 99 0 0 Ditto, 1939, 4* p.c. 99 0 0 Ditto, 1941, 4* p.c. 98 15 j0 Ditto, 1933, 5 h . . 101 10 0 101 6 Ditto, 1936, 5£ p.c. — 101 0 0 INSCRIBED STOCK — N.Z. War Loan, 193S, 4.} p.c 99 0 0 Ditto, 1939, 4a P-C. 9f 15 0 99 0 0 Ditto, 1927-41, 5£ 99 0 0 98 7 6 Ditto, 1933, oh p.c. 10 j 7 6 101 6 Ditto, 1936, oh P-c. 101 10 0 101 0 0 Ditto, 1933, 5i p.c. 9U 10 0 98 10 0 Ditto, 1936, 6 p.c. 104 10 0 —