TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 867, 10 January 1930, Page 10

TO-DAY’S QUOTATIONS

Closing Quotations at today’s midday call were:—

SHIPPING FINANCE ESTIMATE OF COMPANIES’ OPERATIONS Reed. 9.10 a.m. LONDON. Thursday. According to the newspaper “Fairplay," the shares and debentures in ill the shipping companies have a nominal value of £117,000.000. The highest quotations in 1929 gave the value at £136,500,000, but the prices at December 31 represented only C 106,000,000, showing a paper loss of L 30,000,000, whereas 30 British liner * ompanies paid an average dividend of 6.26 per cent, in 1929. Seventy-three ear go boat companies paid 5.12 per cent. Of the cargo companies, 27 did not pay dividends, and 28 failed to provide mything for depreciation out of their earnings. CHICAGO WHEAT P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. CHICAGO, Thursday. Wheat.—March. 1 dollar 2SJ cents: May, 3 dollar 32 3-8 cents; July, 1 dollar 33 1-8 cents.

BUTTER AND CHEESE Merchants report receipt of overseas cables as follow: Amalgamated Dairies, from its London office, under date January 9: “Butter. Anchor, 158 s; market firm, but slower at advance. Danish, 160 s f.o.b. Cheese, white, 86s: coloured, 84s; market quiet.” Dalgety and Company, Limited, from their London house under date January o:—“Butter: The market is steadier. Now Zealand, finest, salted, 153 s to 1565; Danish. 166 s to 170 s; Australian, finest, unsalted, 3 56s to 160 s; finest, salted, 3 50s to 1525: F.A.Q., 144 sto 148 s. Cheese: The market is steadier. New Zealand, white, 86s to 87s; coloured, 84s to 85s; Canadian white cheese, 95s to 98s; coloured, 95s to 9Ss. MELBOURNE HIDES MELBOURNE, Thursday. At the Melbourne hides sale today prices were unchanged. KAURI GUM LICENCES Seventy buyers’ and three brokers’ I licences were dealt with and renewed ; at the last meeting of the Kauri Gum Control Board..

Buyers. Sellers. £ d. £ s. d. BANKS— Aust. of Commerce 1 Australasia 12 Com. of Australia . 1 4 Eng. Scot. & Aust. National of N.Z. . . 6 X 0 6 14 0 Nat. of Australasia 15 15 o Ditto (con.) .. .. X New South Wales 40 10 0 New Zealand . . 17 0 Union of Aust. 12 0 0 13 0 0 INSURANCE— A.P.A 0 New Zealand .. .. 2 4 Queensland 17 South British .. . 3 0 6 3 4 t) LOAN AND AGENCY— Dom. Invest. and Bn r.kingr . . . . 1 1 6 Farmers' Co-op Auc. 4 1 0 < loldabrough, Mort. . 16 0 Newton King- (pref.) 0 10 6 N. Auck. Farmers’ Co-op, B (pref.) 0 10 6 0 12 0 COAL.— Hikurangd 0 1 6 Ditto ( pref.) . . .. 0 4 0 Ditto. A (pref.) .. 0 3 0 ■Pukernlro Renown (pref.) 0 3 Ditto (new issue) <> Taupiri 1 9 6 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 3 0 Waipa 0 14 6 \V estport Stockton — 0 3 0 GAS— Auckland 1 4 6 1 5 3 Ditto (con.) .. .. 0 18 0 0 IS 8 SHIPPING— Devonport Steam , 1 1 6 Howard Smith . . . . 1 1 9 Northern Steam .. 0 15 0 Ditto (con.) . . .. — 0 7 0 TIMBER — Kauri Timber . . . . 0 15 o 17 0 Loyland-O’Brien 1 8 3 National 0 8 0 — BREWERIES— C. L. Innes 1 1 0 Ditto (pref.) . . . . 1 1 0 — N.Z. Breweries .. .. 4 7 3 4 0 0

Buyers. Sellers. £ d. £ s. d. •T. Staples 2 14 0 Crown 0 8 0 — miscellaneous— Apstralian Glass . . O Aust. Iron ancl Steel (pref.) 0 British Tobacco .. 9 Bjurns, Philp . . . . .. 1 18 r> 1 0 Bycroft, Ltd. .. 1 11 0 Dominion Pictures . . 1 0 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 0 0 Dunlop Perdriau 1 Electrolytic Zinc (ord.) 1 12 0 1 13 6 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 1 12 fi Farmers’ Trading . 0 8 2 0 8 8 Ditto B (pref.) .. 0 14 0 Hamilton Theatres . 0 18 0 Hayward’s Pictures 0 18 0 Henry Jones Co-op. 1 12 6 H.M. Theatre Arcade (pref.) .. 1 1 0 N.Z. Drug 15 0 Milne & Choyce . . 1 7 0 Ditto (deb. stk.) . 1 7 0 1 8 0 Morris Hedstrom ( prof.) 0 IS 0 — N.Z. Farmers’ Fert. 1 0 1 0 Robinson Ice Cream 1 5 9 Sanford, Ltd 0 18 0 S. R. Maxwell . . . . 0 4 6 9 Taranaki Oil Fields 0 5 H 0 ft 0 Union Oil 2 6 Wilsons Cement 2 0 0 2 2 0 MINING— Moanataiari (paid) . 0 0 10 ft 1 6 Ditto (2s 2d pd) . . 0 0 Ditto (Is 6d pd) . . 0 0 Lucky Shot (4s pd.) 0 1 6 Ohinemuri (ord.) .. 0 3 0 ft 3 Waihi 0 13 4 0 14 0 Waihi Grand June. 0 1 0 1 « Mt. Lyell 1 18 o 1 18 0 Kuala Kampar 0 9 0 0 Kampong 1 3 6 1 4 9 DEBENTURES— Auck. Harbour Bd., 6 per cent 103 0 0 Bor. of Devonport 6 103 0 0 W iiliamson’s Films . 100 0 0 104 0 0 GOVERNMENT BONDS War Loan, 1938, 4£ — 100 5 0 INSCRIBED STOCK War Loan, 193S, 4-i lftft Ditto, 1939, 4i p.c. 99 0 0 100 0 0