Increased Business

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 895, 12 February 1930, Page 12

Increased Business

COLONIAL SUGAR ACTIVE

A MARKED improvement is registered on ’Change with many stocks still improving and a large volume of business is being recorded. Colonial Sugars are selling freely at £44 7s (id.

Business on the Auckland Market Transactions on the Auckland market over the past 24 hours included: Yesterday afternoon. Commercial Bank of Australia, £1 3s 9d; ditto, rights. 2a 4d; National Bank of Australasia (paid), £ls 11s: Union of Australia. £l2; Auckland Gas, £1 3s 9d; Bartholomew Timber, £1 Is 6d; British Tobacco, £2 3a 6d; Colonial Sugar, £44 ss; Henry Jones. £1 10s 3d: Milne and Choyce (deb. stock), £1 7s: Wilsons Cement. £1 19s 6d; Mount Lyell. £1 6s. £1 6s 3d. At the morning's early call. —Bank of Xew Zealand. £2 18s 9d: Xew Zealand Breweries, £4 4s; Colonial Sugar, £44 7s 6d; Kempthorne-Prosser, £3 13s. At the midday call.—Commercial Bank of Australia. £1 3s 9d; Union Bank. £l2: British Tobacco (Sydney register). £2 3s: Electrolytic Zinc < ord ). £ 1 11s 9d. Market at Midday A notable improvement, is registered in the bank section. Commercial of Australia are steady, and the rights are firmer. Xational of Australasia have firmed to sales £ls lls. Wales have numerous buyers, few sellers ap-

■ pearing. Xew Zealand are quietly firming, the last sale being at 58s 9d. Union of Australia have- touched £l2. Insurance are also attracting many inj vestors. Nationals have improved to | buyers 14s, sellers remaining at 14s ; 9d. New Zealand remain very firm lex div., with buyers 435, no sellers. Queensland remain steady. South British have keen buyers at 61s, sellers 635. In the miscellaneous section, British Tobacco have eased slightly, sales today on the Sydney register being at 435. Bycroft have persistent buyers at 31s 6d. Elecrolytic Zinc, both issues; are inclined to firm. Mount By ell are very active, and shares rej main firm. Dividends Payable • N.Z. Insurance—interim, lid a r)U€ * i share .. Feb. 12 Queensland Nat. Bank —quartcrly. 2£ p.c Feb. 13 ictoria Nyanza Sugar—final for last financial year, 5 p.c., and Interim for current year, 2b P.c Feb. 25 Broken Hill South—quarterly, 2s a share Feb. 26 Bank of Xew South Wales, quar- ™ £® r cent Feb. 27 Electrolytic Zinc—interim, ord. and pref.. 12 p.c. p.a Mar. 6