A Brighter Tone

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 929, 24 March 1930, Page 12

A Brighter Tone

THE week on Change opened for all the more popular s' More attention is being paid stocks. Fluctuations Price movements, shown by a comparison of sales recorded during the morning with the price at the time of the previous recorded sate, include: Commercial Bank of Australia, rise of 2d. Electrolytic Zinc, rise of 3d. Farmers’ Fertilisers, fall of 3d. Market at Midday Little movement was shown in 'the market at midday. The market for most securities are quiet and little change was made in the quotations from the early call. The gilt-edge market is firm. Dunlop - Perdriau Expansion A report from across the Tasman states that arrangements for the sale ni he Rapson Tyre Co. to Dunlop-Fer-driau Rubber Co. remain to be settled in detail only.

Market on ’Change

1 tliis morning with the market stocks showing a brighter tone, to miscellaneous New Zealand Transactions on the Auckland Market Business recorded on the Auckland Market during the morning included the following sales: At the early call:—Gear Meat, 38s; Electrolytic Zinc, 26s 3d: New Zealand Farmers’ Fertilisers, 19s 9d; Sharland (pref.), 20s 6d. At the midday call: Commercial Bank of Australia, 225. Dividends Payable Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)—interim, 8 p.c. p.a Mar. 24 Dunlop Perdriau —interim, cum. pref., 5 p.c., ord. 3 p.c Mar. 28 E'ukemiro Collieries, intermim, 2s a share Mar. 31 * , British Tobacco—interim, 3 p.c. Mar. 31 > ; Hume Pipe Co. (Aus.)—interim. ; 4 p.c Mar. 31 O. Ju. Innes—interim, pref., 4 p.c. Mar. 31 Bank of Australasia —final, 7 p.c. Apl. 4 Howard Smith, Ltd. —interim, cum. pref., 6 p.c., p.a Apl 6 Kempthorne-Prosser Drug Co.— ! final, 5i p.c Apl. 8 > Milne and Choyce. Ltd.—interim, ord., pref. and deb. stk., S p.c. , i p.a Apl. 10 1 | New Zealand Breweries —interim ! 72 p.c Apl. 14