LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Year. Slock Exchange sales, morning call: Bank of New Zealand, £2 Is Gd; Goldsbrough Mort (odd lot). £1 10s Gd; Australian Consolidated Industries (con). 18s Id; New Zealand Newspapers. £1 7s Gd: Taranaki Oil Co. 5s 9d: Mount Lyell, £1 15s; Mount Roskill Borough debentures. September 30, 195-1. £lO2 10s. Noon call: New Zealand Insurance Co, £3 0s 6d: Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 14s; Taranaki Oil Developments. 2s lid: G. J. Coles. £4 2s. WELLINGTON Stock Exchange sales: Now Zealand Guarantee Corporation. 4s: Consolidat- | cd Brick Co. 9s. 1 Sale reported: Gordon and Gotch. £2 Ils 9d. The Stock Exchange Association has received the following advice: The I Grey River Gold Dredging Co's return for the period ending February 14 is: 150 hours 98,267 cubic yards. 708 ounces. The following cabled advice has also been received: In a preliminary notice, the directors of Woolworths Ltd announce a net profit for the year ended January 31. subject to the completion of audit and after making provision for income taxes. ot‘ £44,000. amounts to £272,922. The directors propose to recommend to shareholders at the forthcoming annual meeting the declaration of a final dividend of HA per cent, making 1.7 a per cent for the year on the paid-up ordinary share capital of the company. j CHRISTCHURCH { CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Goldsborough I Mort. £1 9s 9d; Dunlop Perdriau Co, I £1 2s. Sale reported: British Tobacco Co (late sale yesterday), £2 13s 9d. DUNEDIN DUNEDIN. This Day. Stock Exchange sale: Placer Development Co. £4 7s fid. Late sales yesterday: Kaiapoi Woollen Co. (ord.). 13s Gd; Kaiapoi Woollen Co. (pref.). 16s 6d: Woolworths. Sydney. £1 5s 3d: Mount Lyell. £1 5s 6d.