Insurance Improve

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 10

Insurance Improve

Auckland Gas Firm Bv “Xoon Call.” SI EAD\ business is being recorded in insurance scrip and prices are advancing. Auckland Gas shares are in demand vrith buyers 24s Bd, sellers asking 24s 31d.

■Rank shares are easier, anti little i interest is being shown in this sec- ! ion. Commercial of Australia have **ased to sales 27s 4d. New South Wales sold at early call at £4B 10s. j Miscellaneous section is attracting j many investors. Farmers’ Trading 1 temain steady. Grey and Menzies have ! steady buyers at lUs 6d. Milne and • hoyco ('deb. stock) have keen buyers at 2 6s Cd. Taranaki Oil are inclined to firm. Wilsons Cement are selling freely at market rates. The mining section is steady. Ohinemuri have buyers at 9s 3d, sellers 9s 9d, few shares changing hands. Junctions sold this morning at Is 4d. Waihi scrip is firm. Mount Lyell sold last evening at 42s *4d, leaving the market weaker. Kuala Kampar are quiet. Government bonds and stocks re- j main firm, little business is being transacted. Yesterday afternoon's business.—On ’‘"hange: Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £ 1 14s 9d; Mount Lyell. £2 2s 4d. Reported: Commercial Bank of Australia. £1 7s 9d: Commercial Bank of Australia, £1 7s Sd: Bank of New Zealand, £ :> Os 3d: National Insurance. 16s 35d: New Zealand Insurance, £2 ‘s 6d: Goldsbrough. Mort. £2 3s 9d; Wilsons Cement, £2 2s 6d. Business at this morning’s early call. • —On 'Change: Commercial Bank of :

Australia (ord.). £1 7s 6d: Wilsons Cement. £2 2s 6d; Waihi Grand Junction. Is 4d. Reported: Commercial Bank of Australia (ord.), £1 7s Sd; Bank of New South Wales. £4B 10s; Now Zealand Insurance, £2 6s 6d: Taupiri Coal (ord.), £1 9s 9d; Wilsons Cement, £2 2s 6d. Business at today’s midday call. — On ’Change: Commercial Bank of Australia (ord.), £1 7s4d; N.Z. Government War Loan. 1933, 5£ p.c\. £lOl. Reported: National Bank of Australasia (con.), £9 Is. Dividends Payable _ Du®. South British Insurance—final. Is id a share Oct. 24 United Building Society—final, 7J P.c., p.a Oct. 24 British 1 obacco—pref., interim, 6£ p.c. p.a Oct. 31 D.l.C.—Pref, 6 p.c. (halfyear), ordinary, 10 p.c., Nov. 1 Dominion Pictures—pref and ord., 75 p.c. p.a Nov. 1 Aus. Iron and Steel—pref., interim, 7} p.c. p.a Nov 1 Waihi Gold Mining Co.—ls a „ share Nov. l farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering—S p.c. p.a Nov. 12 Queensland Nat. Bank.—interim 3 0 p.c. p.a Nov. I t Broken Hill South—ls 6d a share Nov i 5 Nat. Bank of Australasia— Ord. and con., interim 3 0 p.c. p.a Nov. 27 Grey Valley Coal—final. 5 p.c. (making S p.c. p.a.) .. Nov. 30