LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1940, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Slock Exchange sales, morning call: South British Insurance, £2 7s; Newton King (pref), 10s; Auckland Gas Co (16s paid), 9s Gd; British Tobacco Co. £2 9s 6d; Consolidated Brick Co, 9s 3d; Woolworths. New Zealand. 16s 6d; stock, May 15, 1949-52, 4 per cent. £lO3 ss; Mount Eden Borough debentures, August 1, 1967, 4] per cent, £lO6.

Sales at noon call: Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 5s 6d; Emperor Mine, 15s Gd; Stock, April 15, 1946-49, £lO2 15s; Mt. Eden Borough Council, August 1, 1967, £106; South British Insurance Co., £2 7s. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON. This Day. Stock Exchange sales reported: 31 per cent stock. 1941. £100; State Advances Corporation, 3] per cent bonds, June 1. 1944, £lOO 10s. The Stock Exchange Association has received advice from Australian Consolidated Industries that the directors intend to recommend that the following dividends be declared for the halfyear ended March 31, 1940: 41 per cent on preference shares, making a tola! of nine per cent for the year; 31 per cent on fully-paid ordinary shares, making seven per cent for the year and 31 per cent on the amount of 4s per share paid on September 30 in respect of capital on contributing ordinary shares. The dividends will be payable on June 26.