TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 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.—National Insurance, 16s 4d (.two parcels); New Zealand Guarantee Corporation, Ss Sd; Wilsons Cement, 4Us oil; National Bank of New Zealand. £7 -s (.two parcels); National Bank of Australasia (£lO paid). £l9 Ss 6d; Bank of New Zealand, tils 3d. Christchurch. Commercial Bank of Australia, 30s 2d. 30s 3d (two parcels); iluddart-Parker. 47s lid, 48s 3d; Mahgkipawa. Is 6d (two parcels). Dunedin.—Waihi Grand Junction, Bd. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE Tlie Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated October 27, from the High Commissioner. London:— Tallow.—There is a little more doing, but the market is still quiet at about unchanged rates. The next auction will be held on November 7. Hemp.—The Manila market is firmer and good business has been done at higher rates The American market is stiong. “J grade sold fox- OctoberI>ecember shipment up to £35 10s, closing \alue, £oj 15s. The sisal market is tamer, after a slight reaction. Closing values for November-January shipments £T l I e:^ Xo * J' 10s: No - -- £35 10s. 1 Zealand market is firmer, in >' mpa thy with sisal, with a continued atmana for high points and a moderate demand for lower grades, but buvers ideas of low closing values for October,shipments are:—Highpoints, •iV‘~ ■’ fan .'- common, £27 15s. 1 Price ot tow is unchanged. wool.—Considerable business was done m tine tops and yarns, in consequence of the upward tendency of the Australian sales. The demand for crossbred is irregular and buyers are waiting for the establishment of a basis in New Zealand nna South America. Present quotations are:—64's (Merino), warp. 4s a lb; aver- ■ jge 3s lOd to 3s 10Jd a lb; 56’s. average, -s 8d to 2s 9d a lb; 50’s, prepared, 2s 3'.d a lb; 40 s, prepared. Is 9d a lb. N.Z. PAPER MILLS DIVIDEND DUNEDIN, Monday.

» t The directors of the New Zealand a £ e r Mills, at a meeting to-day, authorlse(l the payment of an interim dividend at the rate of 3 per cent.

WOOL PRICES BUOYANT N.S.W. GROWERS BENEFIT (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Monday. At the wool sales, 15,083 bales were sold. Competition was excited and more general than on any previous occasion. Prices all round wero extremely buoyant, mostly in the growers’ favour. Greasy Merino brought 262 d.

Buyers. Sellers. BANKS — 3. d. £ s. d. Australian Bank of 1 14 1 13 0 Bank of Adelaide . . 10 0 0 Bank «>t Australasia 14 16 0 Com. Bank of Aus. 1 10 6 1 10 1 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 7 L0 0 • 7 0 Com. Bank Sydney 27 17 6 Kng., Scot, and Aus. 8 17 6 Nut. of N.Z 7 7 0 New South Wales .. 51 7 New Zealand . . 1 6 1 1 >itto, I >. Mort. (20s paid) 1 8 Union of Australia . 15 5 INSURANCE — 0 ft National 0 16 7 0 16 5 Now Zealand . • .. Queensland — 5 United — loan and agency— Dalgety — 15 2 6 Ditto (A pref.) .. Ditto (B prof.) . . 6 Goldsbrough, Mort . 11 2 National Mortg and Agency — 4 a Newton Kins: (pref) N.Z. River Plate .. N.Z. Guar. Corpn. N.Z'. Loan and Merc. — 116 0 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. — Co-op. (ord.).. .. — COAL— Hikurangi — 0 5 6 Ditto (A pref.) .. 0 16 0 16 Ditto (pref.) .... 0 3 3 0 2 10 Taupiri l 0 I)i 1 1o (pref.) . . . . Waipa 1 10 9 Westport Stockton . 0 3 7 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. — GAS— 1 3 4 l 3 1 .Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 17 3 17 Gisborne 0 9 Napier — 10 7 6 SHIPPING— De von port Steam .. 1 4 9 fl 4 3 Howard Smith.. 1 Huddart-Parker 6 7 9 Ditto (pref.) . . .. 1 0 9 Northern Steam (con.) 0 6 10 0 6 S Ditto (ord.) .. .. 0 14 2 P. & O. (def. stock) 0 0 15 0 Union Steam (pref.) — 1 0 6 TIMBER — Kauri l 0 0 0 IS 0 National 0 10 6 Parker-Lamb .. — 0 16 0 WOOLLEN— Kaiapoi 0 14 0 0 13 p, Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 3 y Ditto (pref.) .. .. 0 15 0 Mosgiel 7 0 Wellington 7 0 0 15 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. — 6 17 0 BREWERIES— C. L. Innes .. .. — 0 18 6 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 6 0 18 6 New Zetland .. .. 2 15 0 2 13 9

Sellers. Buyers. MISCELLANEOUS— Auclc. Amuse. Park 0 3 A. J. Kntrican . . . . 0 IS 6 Australian Glass . . 5 British Tobacco . .. 4 4 0 Burns, Philp .. 5 0 9 Bycroft, Limited .. 1 15 0 0 Checker Taxicab 0 9 H 0 6 0 Dental and Medical 0 14 0 Dominion Pictures . Ditto (pref.) .. .. Donaghy’s Rope . . Dominion Rubber . . Electrolytic Zinc (ord.) 1 13 0 1 12 0 Ditto (prel.) . . . . 1 14 1 13 •» Gear Meat Grey and Menzies . Hamilton Theatres . l 1 Hayward’s Pictures 1 1 Henry Jones Co-op. 1 ID Hill and Plummer . H.M. Arcade (pref.) Kempthorne-Prosser 10 Lewis Eady (ord.) . 1 3 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 0 in Milne and Choyce . Ditto (pref.) .. .. Ditto (B pref.) . Ditto (deb. stock) N.Z. Farmers’ Fert. Morris Hedstrom (pref.) N.Z. Retrig, con.) 0 Robinson Ice Cream 1 Ditto (new issue) 1 Sanford, Ltd 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 l 0 Sharland (pref.) Thames Theatre . . 0 15 Tonson Garlick 0 12 6 Union Oil Whittomo Steven0 W ilsons Cement 0 0 1 Farmers’ Trading- . 0 8 Ditto (B pref.) — 0 9 6 MINING—

Alburnia (2s 6il paid) 0 Moanataiari (paid) . Golden Age (paid) . Maoriland (eon.) . . 0 Ohinemuri (ord.) .. 0 7 Waihi 0 14 2 Waihi G. June. 0 Mount Lye 11 1 17 0 1 16 3 DEBENTURES— Auckland Gas, 1928, 61 Auckland Harbour Board, 6 Bor. Devonport, 6 . . 101 0 0 Bor. Mt. Eden. 5* Ditto, 6 p.e Hamilton, 6 p.e. N.Z. Breweries 1 4 6 Nat Trading, 1000 0 Glaxo 90 0 0 Wright, Stephenson 87 0 0 78 0 0 GOVERNMENT BONDS— War Loan, 1930, 42 100 Ditto, 193S, 4i .. Ditto, 1939, 42 .. Ditto, 1941. 42 15 Ditto, 1933. 52 .. Ditto, 1936, 5* — 101 0 0 INSCRIBED STOCKWar Loan, 1938. 42 Ditto, 1939 42 0 Ditto, 1933, 52 .. 101 7 6 101 0 Ditto, 1936, 62 Ditto, 1927-41, 5$ . 98 15 0 Ditto, 1933, 52 . . 98 15 0