LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1939, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.; AUCKLAND. This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning call: National Bank, £2 6s; Consolidated Brick Co., 8s 7d; New Zealand Drug Co. (odd lot), £3 Bs. Unlisted: Taranaki Oil Developments Co., 2s; Wellington Alluvials, 4s 2d. Sales after call: Bank of New Zealand, £2. WELLINGTON

_ WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Lxchange sales: Wellington Las to, £1 9s; i\ew Zealand Retrigeiaung Co (lus pci), 8s 4a; Milliqum ougar Co, £z 3s 3a; ij'mriey isles, £i Ils 9d.

i.xtt Stock Exchange Association ha. reeer.c-a earned aavice mat the Elder Siiiilii Co declared a final dividend a, ,fic rate of 7 per cent per annum, payable Septemoer 1, mailing a total o± seven per cent lor the year, on old • snares, and at the same rate on new shares from the respective due dates on instalments, namely April 1 and . June 1. The Broken Hill South Co Ltd has ■ declared a dividend of sixpence per share, payable in Melbourne on September 15. The Broken Hill Proprietary Co, subject to audit, reports a net profit for the year ending May 31, 1939, of £1,431,513 8s 2d, after providing £850,669 13s 3d xor depreciation, and £7,948 10s for debenture interest. CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Stock Exchange sale: Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 8d; National Bank of New Zealand, £2 6s Gd; Bank of New Zealand, £2 0s 3d; Woolworths’ Holdings, 14s 9d. BROKEN HILL COMPANY INCREASE IN NET PROFIT. AN UNCHANGED DIVIDEND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Broken Hill Proprietary Com-, pany. Ltd., in a preliminary statement reports a net profit. subject to audit, of £1,413,513 for the year ended May 31. compared with £1.300.460 for 193738. The dividend is unchanged at 121, per cent. I