LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1938, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day Stock Exchange sales, 10 a.m. call: South British Insurance Co.. £2 4s 3d; Huddart Parker Co. (pref), £1 9s 6d; New Zealand Shipping Co. (pibf), odd lot, £l2; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17s 7d; Colonial Sugar Co., £4B 15s Electrolytic Zinc (pref) £2 8s 6d; Woolworths (New Zealand), £1; Mount Lyell, £1 8s 9d 12.15 p.m. call: —Bank of New Zealand, £2 Is (3), £2 Is; South British Insurance Co., £2 4s 3d; Dominion Breweries, £1 15s; New Zealand Breweries, £2 Is; British Tobacco Co., £2 8s 10£d; Taranaki Oil Co 13s 2d (2); Amalgamated Brick Co (Auckland), debentures, £97. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales reported:— Bank of New South 'Wales (Sydney register), £3l ss; National Insurance Co., 16s; New Zealand Breweries, £2 0s lOd; New Zealand Paper Mills, £1 Is 9d; Imperial Chemical Industries (pref), £1 3s Old; General Motors(pref), £1 5s IJd. The New Zealand Stock Exchange Association has received cabled advice from Mount Lyell, Ltd. stating that a dividend of ore shilling, Australian currency, has been declared out of profits for the year ended September 30. The year’s profit amounted to £150,330, after writing off £73,556 for prospecting, development end depreciation and £19,283 for taxation. Messrs Morris Hedstrom also advise that an interim dividend of three per cent has been declared, payable on ordinary shares. The Jason Investment Trust has recommended a dividend of three per cent per annum for fifteen months, pro rata on the amount paid up per share. Noon call: —Burns, Philp and Co., £2 13s 4d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17s 6d; Mount Morgan, 10s (2). DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: 3J per cent stock, 1939-43, £9B; E.S. and A. Bank, £5 10s; Union Bank, £8 14s 9d; Associated News (pref.), £1 4s; Myer's Emporium, £1 9s 4Jd; Woolworths, New Zealand (ord.), 19s 6d; Mount Morgan, 10s Id; Mount Lyell, £1 8s 9d, late sale.