ON 'CHANGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1932, Page 4

ON 'CHANGE.

! FLUCTUATIONS !N SHARES. WEEK OPENS BRISKLY. GOOD LIST OF SALES. The Auckland Stock Exchange commenced a new week with a healthy tone, and there were more sales at the first call than is usually the ease on a Monday morning. Week-end quotations were reinstated, and in some cases buyers advanced their oilers. Bank of New Zealands were steady, with buyers still offering £2 7/3. Commercial prefs. v.-ere again in demand, and a sale at £6 17/3 represented the highest figure realised for a considerable period. Dalgety's shares •were asked for at £7 10/, and Goldsbrough, Morts had buyers at £1 4/. New Zealand Breweries had a sale 3d higher at £1 7/3. Colonial Sugars eased 5/, with offers to sell at £45 a/: Government stocks were quiet and unchanged. The Noon Call. New Zealand Breweries held firm at the higher price, and two further sales were recorded at £1 7/3, with further buyers still in the market at £1 7/. Wilsons Portland Cements advanced 3d on the last sale. In the mining section there was a further fall in Okaritos to 8/4, and buyers had dropped to 8/. The banking section showed no change in values, and the only variation in insurance stocks was National, for which buyers rose to 13/, with none offered. SALES COMPLETED. Last Sale.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHURCH. this day; Sales on 'Change.—Commercial Bank 61 Australia. 14/; Goldsbrough. Mort, £1 ifi New Zpaland Breweries. £17/ (2 parcels) ; Auckland Gas. £12/; Electrolytic Zir.c (pref.), £1 2/0: Mount T,yell, £1 0/1: Golden Dawn, 4/11. ">/: Kins Solomon, 1/85 : Mahakipawa (pref.). ojd. Sale Reported.—New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid), 11/9. INTEREST RATES. The return to the investor on his outv lay, based upon the latest dividends, works out as follows for the latest sales: — PER CENT PER ANNUM.

DIVIDENDS. :. Due. Wellington Woollen—Final, 6 p.c. p.a Now Komata Reefs Gold —Interim, 3d a share Now Bank of New-South Wales —Quarterly, 5/ a share Now 6tandard r .lasurance-rFlnal, 1/3 per shn-rV ... ... . Sept. 6 Huddart-Parker —Interim, ord. 2i p.c., pref. 3 p.c Sept. 15

AT THE 10 A.M. CALL TO-DAY— Commercial Bank of Aust. (oref.) £R 17 3 .. £6 16 0 Bank N.S. Wales 2G 17 6 .. 26 15 0 Union Bank • ■ _ „ „ (Melb. reg.; 7 2 0.. 7 1 6 N.Z. Breweries .. 17 3.. 17 0 N.Zf. Kefrig 0 11 0 .. 0 119 AT THE 12.1B P.M. CALL TO-DAY — N.Z. Breweries (2; 17 3.. 173 Wilsons Cement.. 1 10 0 .. 10 0 Okarito 1 0 8 4.. OSS

& a. d. Commercial Bank (pref.l .. 5 IB 6 Bank of New South Wales.. 3 15 1 Union Bank 2 1G 4 New Zealand Breweries .... 5 17 6 N.Z. Refrigerating (con.) .. 8 10 3 Wilsons Cement 6 13 4 CAI.Ii AND DIVIDEND LIST.