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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6

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STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Stock Exchange sales, 10.0 a.m. call: Bank of New'Zealand, £2 2s; Colonial Sugar Co., £47 5s (2); Imperial Chemical Industries (pref.), £1 4s 8d; Woolworths (Sydney), £1 0s 9d. Stock, April 15, 1946-49, 4 per cent, £lOl. Noon call:—Bank of New Zealand, £2 2s, (2); National Insurance Co, 16s lOd; New Zealand Breweries. £2 0s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17s 2d (2); New Zealand Paper Mills, £2 2s 6d; New Zealand Newspapers, £1 14s; Woblworths (Sydney), £1 0s lid (2). Unlisted: —Fiji Kauri Co,. 9s. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning call: Unofficial list: Woolworths (Western Australia), £4 ss. ?• ■ Sales reported: Four per cent 'stock, 1949, £lOl ss; Goldsbrough Mort., £1 7s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, £2 (3), £1 19s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17s 3d (3): G. J. Coles, £3 18s 9d. The Stock Exchange has received the following cablegram:—“The directors of T. J. Richards recommend, subject to audit, a dividend for half year ended June 30, 1938, on both preference and ordinary shares at rate of ten per cent per annum, making, with interim dividends already paid, a total distribution of ten per cent per annum for the year.” Noon call: Four per cent stock, 1946, £lOO 2s 6d; four per cent stock, 1949. £lOl 5s 6d; G. J. Cole, £3 18s 10d; Consolidated Brick Co.. 7s 9d; Woolworths Ltd. (ord.), £1 0s lOd. CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Stock Exchange sale's: New Zealand Breweries, £2 0s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17s; Broken Hill Proprietary (cont.), £1 18s 6d, £1 18s sd; G. J. Coles, £3 18s lOd; Taranaki Oilfields,! 12s 6d, 12s sd; Wilcox Mofflin, 6s 4d; Woolworths (Sydney, ord.), £1 0s lOd; Broken Hill South (cum. div.), £1 9s 6d; North Broken Hill (cum. div.), £2 4s. Salo reported: Woolworths (South Africa), 15s 3d (2). DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, This Day. Stock Exchange Sales: —Bank of New Zealand, £2 2s; Hume Pipe Co., £l. LONDON (Recd This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September G. Shares quotations: Clutha River Company: Buyers, Is 7Jd; sellers, Is lOld. Molyneux: Buyers, 7Jd; sellers, IOJd. STOCKS RISING MORE CHEERFUL TONE IN LONDON. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, September G. As the result of a firm lead from the Paris Bourse (which was reported in an earlier cablegram to be unsteady) sentiment in the City is more cheerful than for some time. A long list of rises is recorded on the Stock Exchange. IMPERIAL SMELTING DIVIDEND FOR THE YEAR. (Recd This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 6. Imperial Smelting has declared a preference dividend of 1* per cent, making 4J per cent for rhe year. It is announced that the depression in industry and the fall in zinc prices does not enable a full dividend.