LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1939, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND <By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Stock Exchange sale, morning call: Woolworths New Zealand. 17s. Noon call: Australian Consolidated Industries (rights), 7s; Broken Hill Proprietary. £3 15s 6d; Dunlop Perdriati Co.. £1 0s Gd: Reid Rubber Co., £1 4s; Woolworths. New Zealand, 17s. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Four percent Stock. 1953. £97; four per cent Bonds, 1949, £99 7s 6d; Wellington Woollen Co (ord.), £5 ss; Broken Hill Proprietary Co.. £3 15s, £3 15s 6d, £3 14s 6d; Woolworths' New Zealand Ltd., 16s 9d. Sales reported: Four per cent Stock. 1943, £99 15s; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £2 15s; (pref.), £2 17s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary Co., £3 15s; Mt. Lyell Co., £1 8s 9d. ' CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Slock Exchange sales: —N.Z. Breweries Pty, £3 13s 3d; Donaghy’s Rope and Twine Ltd.. £2 8s Gd; Woolworths (Sydney (ord). £1 5s 3d; Woolworths, New Zealand (ord), 16s lOd. Sale reported: Whitecombe and Tombs, Ltd., £3. DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: 8.H.P., £3 14s 9d; Woolworths, Nek Zealand. 16s 7d; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.). £2 15s. COMPANY REPORTS CENTRAL MINE AT BROKEN HILL TO CLOSE. WELLINGTON. This Day. The following cables have been received by the Stock Exchange Association. The board of directors of the Sulphide' Corporation Ltd notify that owing to the gradual depletion of ore reserves and rising costs, Central Mine Broken Hill, will permanently cease operations on November 30 unless unforeseen circumstances arise. The Hume Pipe Company. Australia, Ltd., records a net profit of £67,403. after providing for taxation. The annual meeting will be held on October 2. The directors recommend a final dividend on ordinary and preference shares of 3 : | per cent, making 71 per cent for the year. The directors of the Australian Foundation Investment Trust recommended a dividend of 41 per cent, payable on September 25. The annual meeting will be held on the same dale. The hooks will be closed from September 11 to 25 inclusive.