LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Stock Exchange sales, 9.30 a.m. call: —South British Insurance Co., £2 6s 6d; Australian Alloy Steel, Co., 7s 3d; Berlel (New. Zealand), £3 ss; Colonial Sugar Co., £47 2s 6d; 1.C.1. (pref), £1 Is 8d; Ditto (con), Ils 8d; Moturoa Oil Co., 5s 2d; Ditto, 5s 3d* (2); Taranaki Oil Co, 14s (2); Rural Bonds, September 15, 1947, 4 per cent, £lOl 17s 6d; Ditto, £102; Auckland Harbour Board debentures, April 1, 1944-51, £lOl 10s. ... Sale after call: Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 18s 9d. Unlisted: Selfridges (N.Z.), 6s 3d.

WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales today (all reported after call): Bank of New South Wales, £3l; Goldsbrough Mort, £1 8s; David Jones, £1 19s 4d; Taranaki Oil Co., 14s. Sales reported: 3J per cent stock, 1953-57, £94 10s; 5 per cent rural bonds, £lOl 15s; 4 per cent stock, 1949, £lOl 7s 6d; R.A.C., E.S.A. Bank, £5 3s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £3l; Queensland Insurance Co.,®£2 16s 6d; Taranaki Oil Co., 13s 9d (2), 13s lOd. The Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co., Ltd., has announced that its net profit for the year ended June 30, subject to final audit, amounted to £414,596. The profit has been struck after making appropriate provision to cover the lowest market price of raw rubber as at June 30, 1938. The board will recommend to shareholders payment of a final dividend of 5 per cent for the half-year on cumulative preference shares, making ten per cent for the year, and a final dividend on ordinary shares of 3£ per cent, making seven per cent for the year.

CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Stock Exchange sales:—Government 4 per cent bonds, 1946, £lOO 7s 6d; Government 4 per cent Bonds, 1955, £lOl 12s 6d; Kaiapoi Woollen Co., (7s paid), 3s 9d; Taranaki Oilfields, 13s 9d (2); Woolworths (Sydney, ord), £1 Is 3d; Mount Morgan, 16s lid, 10s lOd (2). Sales reported: National Bank of Australasia (£5 paid), £6 10s; Gear Meat Co., 14s 4d; Berlei (New Zealand), £3 ss. DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, This Day. Stock Exchange Sale: —Mount Morgan, 10s lid. Sales reported:—4J per cent bonds. 1943-46, £lOO 2s 6d. The Gillespie’s Beach dredge return is 58oz 13dwt for 123 hours, and 15582 yards treated.