SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 4

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

TO-DAY IN CHRISTCHURCH. FLUTTER IN BREWERIES. MIXING SHARES LOWER. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A flutter in brewery shares and activity in Electrolytic Zincs brought keenness into the markets on the Christchurch Stock Exchange this morning. Xew ZeaUmd Breweries started with a rush at £3 8/, but relapsed immediately to £3 7/ and £3 6/, compared with £3 5,6 yesterday. Final quotations lay from £3 <3/6 to £3 6 . Staples moved up I/O, to business and further buyers at £2 15/6. Rights to the new issue of Xe-.v Zealands had buyers at £1 10/ and no sellers. Electrolytic Zincs, after a long time of relative slackness, enjoyed renewed popularity at steady rates, the ordinaries finishing between £2 16/ J . and £2 16/6, and preferences between £2 17/ and £2 17 3. Few r sales between the banking and brewery sections were made close to recent values, though Christchurch Gas dropped again, selling 3d lower, at £1 6/1). Among miscellaneous shares Broken Hill Proprietary sold 6d lower, and G. J. Coles, after a sale at £5 10/, finished 3d lower, with sellers later offering at £o 9/0. Dunlop. Perdriau had an inquiry at £1 2/2, while Wilsons Cements seemed stronger between £1 12/6 and £1 18/. Mining saw lower values for Mount Lyells and Mount Morgans, the former dropping 5d and the latter 3V4d. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Commercial Bank of Australia, lit/ : Goldsbrough. Mort, £1 17/10 ; Kaiapoi Woi liens (pref.), 17/; Westport, Stockton. ! 11/9 : Christchurch Gas, £ 1 6/9 ; New Zealand Breweries. £3 8/, £3 7/. £3 <>/ (2 parcels) : Tooth's Brewery. £12 15/6; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 0/9: Electrolytic Zinc (ortl.), £2 16/9 <2 parcels), £2 1 16/6 (4 parcels); Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), ' £2 17/ (2 parcels); G. .1. Coles. £5 9/9 (2 parcels), £5 10/. £5 9/9 (2 parcels) ; • Mount Lyell, £2 5/, £2 4/11, £2 4/9; Mount Morgan, 13/7 i (2 parcels). j Reported Sales.—Electrolytic Zinc (ortl.), £2 16/3; Martha, 15/1. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. 1 Goldsbrougli. Mort, £1 17/9 (2 parcels) ; New Zealand Breweries. £3 5/6 (2 parcels); Dominion Fertiliser. S)1 4/ (2 ] parcels): Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), £2 ' 17/3; Hume Pipe (Australia), 19/4; Tara- ] naki Oil. 3/10; Mount Morgan, 13/10. 13/11; Broken Hill South, £2 11/3 (2 parcels). < Unofficial.—Alloy Steel (Australia), new, 1 18/9; Woolworths (Sydney), rights, £4 10/. WELLINGTON, tills day. ( Sales.—4 per cent Stock, 1955, £104 1 10/: Auckland Gas, £1 3/: National in- I surance (N.Z.). 16/9J ; Gear Meat. 16/; j Staples, £2 14/3. £2 15/6; Broken Hill, , £4 1/6; Dunlop, £1 2/1 : Farmers' Trading ' (new issue), £1 1/1; Broken Hill South. , £2 10/6. WELLINGTON, Monday. 1 Auckland Gas. £12/; Staples, £2 14/, 1 £2 13/11; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 1/6; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 16/9 ; G. J. Coles, £5 10/3. Unofficial.—Woolworths (Sydney), rijrhts, £4 11/; Grey River (3/9 paid), 4/6 (3 ! parcels). I DUNEDIN, this day. i Sales.—New Zealand Breweries, £3 5/3; ' Staples, £2 14/6; Goldsbrough, Mort, £1 < 17/9; Woolworths (Sydney), £7 2/. ] DCNEDIN, Monday. ■ Stock. 15/6/52-55, 4 per cent, £104 10/; 1 Nokoinai. 2/8. Unofficial. —Woolworths (Svdney), £7 2/3.