LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1940, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning calj: Bank of New Zealand (odd lot), £2 0s 9d; Farmers' Auctioneering Co (pref), £1 0s 6d; Woolworths, Sydney, 18s; Bonds, February 15, 1943-46, 4 per cent, £101; Stock, January 15, 1953-57, 31 per cent, £lOO 12s 6d; Amalgamated Brick Co, Wellington, debentures, March 31, 1944, 6 per cent £lOl 10s. Noon call: British Tobacco Co., £2 7s; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 ss; G. J. Coles. £3 10s; Stock, February 15, 1943-46, 4 per cent, e £101; Auckland Gas Co.. 5 per cent perpetual stock, £lOl. .

WELLINGTON WELLINGTON. This Day. Stock Exchange sale reported: Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 4s. The head office in London of the Zinc Corporation has advised by cable thfit the directors have declared a final participating dividend of Is 6d per share, English currency, on both ordinary and perference shares, less income tax of 4s 9d in the pound, making a total distribution for 1939 of 7s per share on participating preference shares, and 3s per share on ordinary shares. The directors have also declared a dividend at the rate of 2s a share. English currency, on preference shares, less income tax of 4s 2cl in the pound, being the fixed preferential dividend for the first six months of 1940. These dividends are payable on June 28 to shareholders on the London and Melbourne registers.

CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. There were no Stock Exchange sales this morning. DUNEDIN DUNEDIN. This Day. Stock Exchange sales: Stock, 1952-55, £lO3.