LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning call: National Insurance Co., 18s 9d; Rotoiti Timber Co., 3s 2d; Bond’s Hosiery Co., £1 2s; Kaiapoi. Co., 13s; Farmers' Trading Co. (A pref.). £1 Is; G. J. Coles, £4 3s 6d (2); Roller Mills Co.. 19s: Rawa.ng Tin Co., 12s (3). Noon call: Bank of New Zealand. £2 Os 3d (2); Farmers' Auctioneering Co. (B pref.). 18s; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 6s: Farmers’ Trading Co.. 17s. <B pref.) 19s Id: New Zealand Drug Co., £3 16s. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Bond's Hosiery Mills. £1 2s; New Zealand Drug Co.. £3 16s 3d; Morris Hedslrom, £1 9s 6d; Woolworths, New Zealand (ord.). 16s 7d. Sales reported: Four per cent Stock, 1943. £ 100 2s 6d; Gear Meat Co.. 14s 3d; Northern Roller Bills. 19s. CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH. This Day Stock Exchange sale; Ngahere Co. (deferred). £l. Sale repotted: Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 5s (id (4): Arahura Co., £ 1 15s'. Unlisted: R.U.R. (pref.), £l.

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