AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1925, Page 4

AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET

BUSINESS DONE.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, tills day. Sales on 'Change: Dominion Rubber, £2/14/3 (three parcels); N.Z. Breweries, Ltd., £1/8/0; Kawaruu, 8/. Reported sales: Wilsons Cement, £1/14/6; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £1/12/0. N.S.W. WttiJAT CROP. REDUCED AREA. The acting- Government statistician (Mr. t Waltes) lias received particulars relating to the areas sown with wheat during , the current season, and the following estimate has been based upon reports received from wheat growers throughout the State. The total area sown was I 3 686,700 acres, or Which it is stated by '.growers 3,327,300 acres are to be har- * vested Tor graincand 359,400 acres cut ■\s compared with the area sown in 1924, there was a decrease of 261,980 I acres, or 6.6 per cent. The area to be reserved for grain is 316.560 acres less than was harvested in the preceding- year, but Is, with the j exception of 1023-4, the largest area for grain since 1917-18, when 3,329,371 acres were harvested. Ail the divisions in the State, with the exception of the North Gentral Plain, showed decreased areas under wheat. According , to reports, this was clue to the unfavourable season, and, to sdine extent, to the substitution of sheep for wheat, owing to the high prices obtained Tor wool. I _ 1— LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS. Dalgety and -Company, Limited, report having received the following cablegram from their London house, dated the 12th inst.: — Butter.—The market is extremely dull. Prices are 6/ lower (now 224/), practically no inquiry. Buyers are holding back, expecting- to do better later on, oh news of steamers sailing- from New Zealand. Cheese. —Since our last wire price 3 are . lower By 2/ (now 116/). The total imports of butter Into the ; United Kingdom for September were I 396,000cwt. as compared with 431,000 I cwt Tor corresponding period- or last year. CALCUTTA TEA SALES. (Received 11 a.m.) DELHI, October 13. At the Calcutta tea salee there was i better selection and improved qiiality Then was good g-eneral demand Tor all JSettei qualities Medium, broken and fanning-; M° H annai Common Peokoe Souchong advanced half to 1 anna Dusts similarly improved.— .{\. ana N z.) HOW BEST TO BfiEF. ' LONDON, October 13. The statement is made in the annual j ' p P°rt of the .Seientlflfc and Industrial ] Research Committee to the Privy Council ! that, during a year's, experience of how I best to freeze beef, the general theory oi the freezing of the colloid iia3 been i advanced to a point which opens a way tc a rational attack on the problem It was revealed that freezing- displaced any contained water which mlgnt involve a permanent alteration or the microscopic structure, and, as a consequence, the perI marient destruction, of. the Unci- molecular J structure.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)' k

AT TSHE 3.15 P.M. CALL YESTERDAY— Auckland Gae £1/2/0 Taranaki Oil (ft/3/0), £1/3/0 Bank of New Zealand i:;/ie,'O Milne and Choyee (deb.) £1/3/9 Kawarau (7/5) Nonpareil ....... 6Jd, 7d N.Z. Breweries £1/3/0, £1/3/1 AT THE 10 A.M. CALL TO-DAY— N.Z. Breweries ►..._.. ....£2/7/6 N.Z. Breweries (deb.) £1/3/8 Crown Breweries ..*....±1/6/9 South British Insurance..^.....£2/10/0 Taranaki Oil .. £1/2/6 AT THE NOON CALL TO-DAY— South British Insurance (£2/10/0) Auckland Gas £1/2/0 Taranaki Oil ... ......... (£1/2, G, i.l/2/i)) Kawarau „................. 8/ BANKS— Sellers. Buyers. Australasia _ „._.. 14/1/6 .. 13/6/6 Commercial ........... — .. 1/12/8 National ~ — .. e/ll'/O New South Wales.... — .. 42/0/O New Zealand « 2/1G/9 ... 2/16/6 Union of Australia... 14/lti/0 .. 14/14/0 INSURANCE— New Zealand *...«... 1/16/0 .- 1/10/0 South British .. 2/10/6 .. 2/9/0 Standard ....._.-... — .. 2/5/0 FINANCIAL— Goldsbrougk Mort.... 2/0/3 .- — N.Z. and River Plate. — .. 1/1/6 Loan and Mercantile 9S/0/0 .. oo/o/o Wright, Stephenson (pref) — .. 16/9 COAL— Hikurangi (pref.) -.„. C/O ... 2/0 Pukerulro . — .. 2/2/0 Taupirl 17/0 .. 16/13 Taupiri (pref.) — ~. 1/'"«/» Walpa -. 1/2/0 .. — GAS— Auckland (old) ...... 1/2/3 .. 1/1/11 Auckland (new) G/G .. 0/0 Birkeuhead .... 38/0 .. — Gisborne ...._._..... 13/0 .. — SHIPPING— Devonport Ferry .... 1/6/0 .. — Huddart, Parker (ord.) 2/4/6 .. 2/4/0 Northern Steam (p.u.) 16/0 .. — Northern Steam (cont.) 7/9 .. — P. and O. Deferred.. 270/0/0 .. — TIMBER— Bartholomew _ 1/5/6 .. 1/4/0 Kauri Timber — .. 1/13/0 L.O'LS 3/070 .. — National 1/3/0 .. — ltotoiti 1/2/0 ... — WOOLLEN— Kalapoilord.) 10/0 .. 0/0 Mosaiel 6/0/0 .. 5/15/0 WelHagton 0/5/0 .. — MISCELLANEOUS — Bycrofr, Ltd 1/10/0 .. 1/8/6 Colonial Sugar 30/15/O .. 50/10/0 Hentnl Supplies .... 18/0 .. 14/0 Dominion Pictures — .. 1S/0 Dominion Rubber ... 2/10/6 .. — Klectrolytic Zinc — .. 3/11/6 Electro. Zinc, (pref.)* — .. 1/12/6 Farmers'Auctioneering 4/0/0 .. 3/13/6 f4rpy and >lenziee ... — •• 0^ Hill and Plummer... — .. 1/0/3 'JJfceatre Arcade (pref.) — .. 1!>/C> Kv-mpthorno, Prossor — .. 3/3/0 Kemp. Prosser (conl.) — .. l/</3 Milne, eiioyce, Ltd. — .. 1'4/0 Milno, rhoyi'e (pref.) — .. I/-*/ 0 Mllup, Choyce (deb.). 3/4/0 .. 1 /3/6 Newton King, Ltd 12/e .. 10/0 Newton King (pref.) IS/1? .. — N.Z. Breweries 2/10/0 .. 2/7/0 Kni-mors' Pertiliaer.. 4/10/0 .. 4/16/0 N.Z. Refrlg. (conh).. 9/0 .. 8/0 N.A. Farmers (B prof) 10/0 .. 5/0 Phillipps and Impoy. — .. 1/10/0 Sanford, Ltd. 1/0/6 .. 10/3 Sanford. Ltd. fpref.i 1'0/U ■• 1W/0 Slinrland and Co — .. 1/2/3 S. R. Maxwell ana Co. 12/6 .. — Takanuna Trams 14'0 .. — Taranaki Oil 1 /2/9 . . .1/2/0 Thames Theatre'.... — .. 12/0 Union OH — •■ l/io/0 AVlsemnn and Sons.. T>/« .. "Wilsons Cement 1/14/10 .. 1/14/6 MINING— Alburnia 2/0 .. — Kawarau 8/3 .. 7/10 Komata Reefs 0/3 .. — Kuranul 1/0 .. — Majestic — • • 0/9 Moanatalarl ~ 2/4 .. 1/8 Muir's Reef 12/6 .. — New Waiotahl 0/9 .. 0/6 Nonpareil 0/0 .. 0/6 Nonpareil (cont.) — . . 0/2J Ohinemuri Mines — .. 3/0 Rising Sun 0/lt .. 0/3 AVnihi * 1/5/6 .. 1/5/1 Waihi Grand Junction. — .. 0/8 Zeehan Consolidated.. 3/0 .. — DEBENTURES — Auck. Gas, 1932. 5 p.c — .. Sn/10/0 City Auck., 1040.51 p.c. 96/10/0 .. — Citv Auck., 1943, 5J p.c. — .. 90/0/0 N.Z*. Breweries — .. l/S/0 S. R. Maxwell, Ltd... 102/0/0 .. — Milne and Choyce . -. 08/0/0 .. 93/0/0 WAR LOANS— Loan, 19P.8, 4J p.c... 07/0/0 .. — Loan, 1927, 5 p.c. ... 98/15/0 .. — INSCRIBED STOCK — Loan, 1927, D p.c 98/10/0 .. —