TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 558, 10 January 1929, Page 10

TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES YESTERDAY’S SALES Press Association Wellington: Commercial Bank, 30s 9d; Union Bank, £ls 15s; P. and 0., 595; Staples and Company, 41s 9d; New Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid), 9s 6d; British Tobacco, 45s sd. Christchurch: National Bank of New Zealand (ex div.), £7 ss; Bank of New Zealand, Ola 9d; Goldsbrough, Mort, 51s sd; New Zealand Breweries, 58s 3d, 58s tthree); Staples Brewery, 42s 4d; Beath and Co. (rights), 6s lOd; Mahakipawa, Is 6d. Is 5d (three); Commercial Bank of Aust alia, 30s 9d; Auckland Gas, 24s 3d. Dunedin: P. and O. •(deferred stock), 60s; New Zealand Breweries (debentures), 25s 6d; Commercial Bank, 30s 9d; New Zealand Breweries (shares), 58s (two paresis), 58s 3d; New Zealand Refrigerating; (con.), 9s sd; 4i per cent. Inscribed Stock, 1938, £99 10s. MORE BUTTER AND CHEESE Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Returns issued by the dairy division of the Agricultural Department show that the grading figures for the five months ended December. 1928, show an increase for butter of 5.3 per cent, at 43,693 tons, and for cheese an increase of 12.7 p€*r cent, at 39,601 tons, compared witlti the corresponding period of the preceding season. Reduced to terms of butter-fat equivalent the gradings of dairy produce for live months show an increase of 7.41 per cent, over the gradings for the corresponding period of the preceding season.

NO HOMEWARD INCREASE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The Australian Press Association understands that the question of increasing Hqmeward freights, which at one time was under consideration, has now been dropped. Revision of the rates to Australia is a long operation. Owing to the enormous number of articles dealt with, the book of rates consists of 150 pages of small type. KAURI GUM BOARD Questions affecting the kauri gum industry were discussed at a meeting of the Kauri Gum Control Board held yesterday. Mr. M. H. VTynyard presided. The election of producers’ representatives will take place on February 20. by postal vote. The returning officer is Mr. G. Anderson, secretary of the board, and voting papers to be valid must be posted so as to reach him by 4 p.m. on the date mentioned. AUCTION NOTES William A. Horne, Limited, will offer bv public auction at their rooms, Horne's Buildings, corner High Street and Vulcan Lane, to-morrow, Friday, January 11, 1929, at 1 p.m., bungalow of 5 rooms and kitchenette, and conveniences, situated King Edward Avenue, Bayswater, on section containing 27.4 perches; also a property situated in George Street, off College Hill, Ponsonby, having a frontage of 33ft to George Street, by a depth of 100 ft 3in, on which is erected a single-storeyed wooden house; also a dwelling of six rooms and offices, situated at Bollard Road, Point Chevalier, all conveniences; iarge garage, suitable for workshop; section, 50ft by 150 ft; also a freehold house property situated in , Bentleigh Avenue, Avondale, consisting ! of a five-roomed house, with all modern conveniences, on section containing 26.8 1 perches, more or less, having a frontage j of 50ft to Bentleigh Avenue, by a depth of 146 ft. j Messrs. Robt. C. Carr and Son will sell by auction at their rooms, 20 Swanson Street, to-morrow at 12 noon, a fiveroomed villa at 37 Prospect Terrace, Mt. Eden, on a level section. The sale is ! under conduct of the Registrar of the ! Supreme Court and at the request of the mortgagee. I George Walker, Ltd., will sell by j auction, at their salerooms, next Smith j and Caughey's. Queen Street, at 10.30 a.m. j to-morrow (Friday), 40 rolls used lino and j 12 carpet squares; and, on account of I Mr. Scantlebury, general household furnishings, including Jacobean bedroom suite, and at 1 p.m., pianos and fiurnishings. ; T. Mandeno Jackson will sell, at their rooms, 9 Commerce Street, Auckland, at 11 o’clock to-morrow (Friday) morning, a | valuable block of freehold land subdivided j into 18 splendid level building sections , situate Patrick Street, off Church Street, Onehunga. a few minutes from Te* Fapapa Station. _ _

Closing quotations at to-day's mid day Sellers Buyers. £ s. d. £ s. d. BANKS— 1 14 c. 1 13 3 Bank of Australasia 14 Com. of Australia . 1 11 0 Ditto (pref. > .. .. tEngr., Scot, and Aus. 8 15 Nat. of N.Z 7 Nat. of Aust 19 — Ditto (con.) .. .. 1 Union of Aus 15 18 INSURANCE — 0 10 0 0 6 0 New Zealand .. • • 2 2 Queensland — 3 South British .. .. 3 ° * LOAN AND AGENCY— 4 15 Ditto (pref.) .. .. — 5 Dalgety and Co. — Farmers’ Co-op. .. — Ditto, B (prof.) • • fioldsbrough, Mort> 2 11 9 Loan and Merc. .. — Ditto (pref.) .. • • — Newton King tpref.) — 7 N.Z. and River Plate N. Auck. Farmers’ Co-op. (B pref.) . 0 10 — Wright, Stephenson and Co. (pref.) .. .. —

COAL — llikurangi 6 0 Ditto (pref.) . . .. Ditto, A (pref.) .. 0 6 Pukemlro 3 0 a 5 15 15 Ditto (pref.) .. 0 10 Taupiri . 1 6 Ditto (pref.) .« .. — CAS— Auckland 1 4 6 1 4 0 Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 18 3 SHIPPING — pevonport Steam . l 4 6 1 3 6 Huddart-Parker 2 9 0 Ditto (pref.) .. . . 6 Northern Steam .. 0 14 Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 6 8 T*. and O. (def. stk.) — 2 19 Union Steam (pref.) 1 1 0 1 0 3

TIMBER— 3 jeyland-O'Brien 1 14 0 1 U National 0 10 6 —• WOOLLENKaiapoi 0 14 0 Ditto (con.) .. .. Ditto (pref.) .. .. —— 0 14 9 Wellington (ord.) .. — Ditto (pref.) .. •. — BREWERIES— C. L. Innes (pref.) — 0 10 6 N.Z Breweries 18 3 2 18 J. Staples — 2 1 9 MISCELL ANEOUS— Auck. Amuse. Park 0 5 0 —

call were:— Sellers. Buyers. British Tobacco 2 6 0 2 5 6 Burns, Philp -. • • — 6 Bycroft, Ltd — Checker Taxi . . . . Colonial Sugar Dominion Pictures . Ditto (pref.) .. .. Donaghy’s Rope .. Dunlop Rubber .. .. 5 Electrolytic Zinc 1 56 15 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 17 3 3 Farmers’ Trading 0 8 6 0 8 2 Ditto, A (pref.) . 9 17 Ditto B (pref.) . 10 Grey and Menzies .. Hamilton Theatres 1 0 0 Hayward’s Pictures — 1 0 6 H.M. Arcade Theatre (pref.) — 1 1 0 Holden’s Motors — 1 JKemp. Prosser 3 11 0 Lewis Eady (pref.) 0 19 6 Milne and Choyce .. 1 5 Ditto (pref.) .. 1 5 9 Ditto, B (pref.) . 1 5 9 Ditto, deb. stock 1 5 9 Morris Hedstrom .. 1 4 0 1 2 9 N.Z. Farmers’ Fert. 0 19 6 N.Z. Refrigerating

(con.) 0 9 6 — (con.) 0 9 5 0 9 1 Sanford (pref.) 0 L8 6 S. R. Maxwell .. .. 0 10 0 0 4 0 Taranaki Oil .. .. 0 b 0 Tonson Garlick 0 8 6 Union Oil 2 4 0 2 0 0 TVhittome Stevensons 2 5 0 Wilsons Cement 2 1 9 2 1 0 MINING— Ducky Shot (con.) 0 0 4 0 0 2 Maoriland (con.) .. 0 0 6 Ohinemuri (ord.) .. 0 8 6 0 7 9 Waihi 0 14 9 0 14 6 Waihi Grand June. . 0 1 0 0 0 8 Mount Lyell .. .. 2 1 9 2 1 0 DEBENTURES— Auckland Gas, 1932, 5 per cent — 93 10 0 Ditto, 1935, 6£ p.c. 104 0 0 98 0 0 Ditto, 6 p.c 102 10 0 Bor. Devonport, 6 p.c 104 0 0 101 10 0 Ditto, 6 102 10 0 Bor. Hamilton, 6 .. 102 0 N.Z. Breweries 1 6 0 5 Glaxo — GOVERNMENT BONDS—

War Loan, 1930, 4i 100 0 a 99 Ditto, 1938, 41 p.c. 100 0 0 Ditto, 1939, 41 p.c. 100 0 0 Ditto, 1941, 4i p.c. Ditto. 1933. 51 p.c. Ditto, 1936, 5i p.c. — INSCRIBED STOCK— War Loan, 1938, 4} pc Ditto, 1939, 41 p.c. - 99 99 0 0 0 0 Ditto, 1933, 51 p.c. 101 10 101 — Ditto, 1936, 51 P C. —