SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 274, 18 November 1936, Page 4

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

| TO-DAY IN CHRISTCHURCH. | ACTIVE MORNING CALL. RISE IN WOOLWORTHS. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A fair volume of business was transacted on Exchange at the morning call. Woolworths' issues reached a new high level, and Australian securities were in demand in most cases at a reduced price. , In local body debentures Christchureh Tramway Board (414 per cent, 1/8/45) had business after a long absence from the sales list, changing hands at £104 10/. The only transaction in the banking section was a sale of Commercial of Australia at 19/1, Id better than the previous sales of the week. New Zealand Refrigerating (10/ paid) appreciated by 2d, to 9/5, the market closing with buyers at 9/5 and sellers 9/6. Among Australian securities Broken Hill Proprietary dropped by 2/3, with a sale at £4 1/9, buyers then retiring to £4 1/3 and sellers asking £4 8/. Electrolytic Zincs lost 5d on recent sales at £2 8/7, ,the market closing between £2 8/6 and £2 8/8. G. J. Coles advanced 2d, to a sale at £3 18/, and Hume Pipes maintained their position with sales at £1 2/. Wilcox, Moft'lin lost Id, with a sale at 11/10, and a sale of Shillings, Ltd., took place at 17/. lower by 1/4 than the sale on Monday. In the unlisted section Woolworths again held most of the interest, and Sydney ordinaries touchcd the new high level of £7 1/3, better by 1/ than yesterday's sales. The market closed, buyers £7 0/9 and sellers £7 1/. National Tobaccos were again on the sales list, the first time for some weeks, selling at £3 0/9, a decrease of 2/3. I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. - Commercial Bank of Australia, 19/ ; Guarantee Corporation, 5/5, 5/4 ; Wellington Investment, 9/3; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 3/0, £4 4/3; Consolidated Brick, 10/0; G. J. Coles. £3 IS/6. Unofficial.—Woolworths (Sydney), £0 IG/3; £ 0 10/; £6 17/3; £0 19/6, 7 (5 parcels), £7 1/ (2 parcels) ; Metiers (N.Z.), 13/0.

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Inscribed stock, 15/2/43-46, 4 per cent, £102 10/ (3 parcels); Bank of New Zealand, £ 2 1/3 ; Dalgety, £105/ ; Goldsbrougli, Mori, £1 10/3, £1 10/2; United Building (odd lot), £1; Anthony Hordern, 19/0; British Tobacco, £2 6/9; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 7/. £2 6/11; G. J. Coles, £3 18/, £3 17/10; Hume Pipe, £1 1/8 (2 parcels); Mount Lyell, £1 15/9; Mossy Creek, 1/1. Unofficial.—New River, 6£d : Woolworths (Sydney), £7 (2 parcels), £7 0/3 (3 parcels). £7 0/0 (4 parcels), £7 0/9, £7 0/0; Woolworths (W.A.), £0 15/6, £0 15/. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 19/1 ; New Zealand Refrigerating (10/ paid), 9/5 ; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 1/9 (cum div.) ; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), £2 8/7; G. J. Coles, £3 17/11, £3 18/; Hume Pipe (Australia), £12/ (2 parcels) ; Wilcox, Mofflin, 11/10; Shillings, Ltd., 17/; Big River, 2/; 4 per cent inscribed, 1937, £ 100 15/ ; Christchurcli Tramway Board, 41 per cent, 1/8/43, £104 10/. Unlisted. —National Tobacco, £3 0/9; Woolworths (Sydney, ord.), £7 1/ (4 parcels), £7 0/0 (3 parcels), £7 0/3, £7 1/, £7 1/3. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Bank of New Zealand, £2 1/3; Union Bank. £10 3/3; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 3/0; Regent Theatre, £1 0/9.

Unofficial.—Woolwortlis (Sydney), £0 16/6, £7.