LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES

AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association./

AUCKLAND, This Day.

Stock Exchange sales, morning call: Bond’s Hosiery. £1 7s; Electrolytic Zinc (pref), £3 2s Gd; Whittome Stevenson. £1 Is; Woolworths. Sydney. £1 4s 8d; stock. November 30. 1948. 4 per cent, £lO3 ss; Auckland Gas Co debentures. December 20. 1949. 5 per cent. £lO2 15s. Unlisted: Una Hill Co. Is 9d.

Noon cal!' New Zealand Insurance Co. (odd tot). £3 2s; Newton King (pref.', 9s; Howard Smith. £1 6s lOld: Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 Ils ’10111; Taranaki Oil Co., 7s 4d; Sanford and Co. (pref.). 14s 3d; Broken Hill South. £1 Ils; Bonds. November 15, 1938-41. 3.1 per cent. £lOl ss; Auckland Gas Co. debentures. December 20. 1949. 5 1 ei cent. £lO2 15s. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON. This Day. Stock Exchange sales: New Zealand Breweries, £1 16s Del: Woolworths lord), £1 4s 7d. Sales reported: New Zealand Breweries, £1 16s 9d; Broken Hill "Proprietary. £2 Ils Gd (2). £2 Us 9d (2); Electrolytic Zinc (pref), £3 2s: MacDuffs Ltd (ord). 7s: Tarakani Oil Co. 7s 2d; Martha Gold Mine. 8s 8d; Woolworths’ Holdings. South Africa. 16s.

The New Zealand Stock Exchange has received cabled advice from the Australian Iron and Steel Co announcing its intention to declare a dividend, payable on May 1 this year, on preference shares, for the two and a half years ending on May 1, 1940, at the rate of 7J per cent per annum, subject to a reduction of 221 per cent under the Interest Reduction Act. Advice has also been received that the Central Mine at Broken Hill ceases productive operations on March 21. CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Government 1948’Stock, £lO3 ss; Mount Lyell. £1 15s sd. Sales reported: Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 Ils 9d (6). DUNEDIN DUNEDIN. This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Union Steamship Co., £1 6s Gd (odd lot late yesteri day); 4 per cent bonds. 1946-49, £lO3 ss; 4 per cent, bonds. 1952-55. £lO3 ss.