Auckland Gas Firm

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 11

Auckland Gas Firm

Electrolytic Zinc Selling NUMEROUS buyers are quoting for Gas shares, few sellers appearing. The contributing issue changed hands at 18s, threepence above last sale.

Business on the Auckland Market Transactions on the Auckland marlift over the past 24 hours included: Yesterday afternoon: English. Scottish and Australian Bank, ,L'r> 12s 6d; Hank of New South Wales. .C 33 10s; Bank of New Zealand, C2 16s 7d: Northern Steamship. 14s sd; Taranaki Oil Is Sd; Wnlhi, 14s Sd. At the moraine; early call: Auckland Gas (con), 18s: Electrolytic Zinc ipref.), •£!• At tho midday call: National Timber, 9s; Colonial Suiiar, C 31 17s Sd. Market at Midday Tho bank section is quiet and in many cases a falling tendency is still noticed. Australasian have sellers at £ll 15s: market unsupported. Commercial of Australia are again weaker, juiyers 18s 4d, sellers 1 Ss lid. English, Scottish and Australian are unchanged. National of New Zealand are a shade easier. New South Wales have buyers at C 32 15s and sellers at c? 3 10s. New Zealand are steady. Insurance scrip continues to "hold. National are unchanged. New Zealand are steady with buyers 42s 3d, sellers 43r. Queensland are also asked for. South _ British have numerous buyers at 57s 6d: no sellers appearing. Shipping is steady. Huddart-Parker nerd) are inclined to ease: tho pref. have steady buyers at 19s Cd. Northern Steam are ninchanged. with buv•rs 14s 6d, sellers 14s flcl: the contributing aro steady. 11,I 1 , and O. are it, iemand. with buyers 43s (id. Union s'team aro unchanged, with buyers 20s.

Howard Smith Interim Passed Owing to tho stoppage of tho colutjies In the northern fields of New Louth Wales having extended over five JA on , t ''? of bhe half-year ended June A l ;™' l to ! h « general depression, the dncctors of Howard Smith, Limited state that no dividend can bo paid for the period on the ordinary shares The general depression, the board adds, lias adversely' affected its interests in other companies. Last year interim dividend was -J per cent., hut no final dividend was paid. Homo Pipe (Australia) Profits I Tho net profit of Hume Pipe ComI pany (Australia). Limited, for the vear ended June 30. after providing for ini come-tax. amounted to £54.565 eomI pared with £54.996 in 1925-29 An in terim dividend cental to 4 per cent, was paid on March 31. and the directors now recommend the payment of a further dividend of 2 per cent. Last vear I a dividend of S per cent, was paid Dividends Due Holden's Motors—final, ord I 6d a share: pref.. s p.c. I Huddart-Parker—interim "orcL Sopc ' lo ' 4 p.c., pref., 3 p.c. .. Sent IS Ivenrp'horne and Prosser—inj Bidtish Tobacco—quarterly, 1 Ban): *of Australasia, in- tf-Pt* -9. ' terim. 14 n.c p.a Oct- 3 i -I’ n V and Choyce—shares and | w d f b ,;- st °‘; k ' , s P-c- P.a Oct. 10. \N right, Stephenson, interim, ord., 3£ p.c o c t n Thames Theatre—lo p.c. .. .*.* Sept