LATE COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCKS & SHARES AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Stock Exchange sales, morning call: —Bank, of New Zealand. £2 2s 6d; New Zealand Guarantee Corporation, 3s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 5s 3d (2); Colonial Sugar Co.. £49 10s; Woolworths. New Zealand. 16s 4d; Woolworths. Sydney, 18s; Mount Morgan, Bs. Noon call: National Insurance Co., 18s sd; New Zealand Insurance Cq., £3 is; Imperial Chemical Industries (pref.), £1 4s; New Zealand Drug Co. (rights), £1 4s; Woolworths. New Zealand, 16s 4d. WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Stock Exchange sale:—Woolworths Ltd (ord), 17s 8d (2). Sale reported: Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 4s 6d. CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Stock Exchange sales:—Government 31 p.c. Stock, 1953-57. £lOO 2s 6d: Booth. MacDonald (pref), 3s 6d (3); New Zealand Drug Co (rights), £1 ss. The Kaiapoi Woollen Company's manufacturing net profit is £31.054 for the year ended July 19. compared with £13,569 in the preceding year. The gross earning is up from £86,370 to £117,G7G. The preference dividend is unchanged at 5 per cent. The ordinary dividend is increased from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. The amount available for appropriation is £31.724, from which is it recommended that dividends should take £15,376, general reserve £2OOO and taxation reserve £13.000, leaving £1349 io carry forward as compared with £670 brought in a year ago. The demand for the company’s products has been accentuated by military requirements, which have exceeded the available supply.

DUNEDIN DUNEDIN. This Day. Stock Exchange sale: —G. J. Coles (late yesterday), £3 3s 6d. After call. National Insurance Co.. 18s 6d.