SOUTHERN EXCHANGES
TO-DAY IN CHRISTCHURCH. "MODERATELY ACTIVE." WILSONS CEMENTS WANTED. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") K ' . CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Three reported sales of Wilsons Cements at,£l 2/9 and quotations on 'Change between £1 2/8 and £1 2/11 maintained the j keen interest displayed in these shares in | the last few weeks. The Exchange this morning was moder- 1 ately active in several sections, values : showing strength in most instances. Banks, ; however, remained slack. There was reported business- in Commercials at 17/11, 1 and later sellers at 17/10. Unsupported sellers of New Zealands asked £2 5/. Gear , Meats with buyers at 19/1, Christchureh I Gas with buyers at the last sale price of ! £1 9/, and Kaiapoi Woollen shares were ! firm. Huddart, Parkers cum dividend had ' an improved demand, buyers at £2 2/6. bringing no response from sellers. New Zealand Breweries sold again at £2 10/. The market for Staples continued to improve with quotations from £2 13/ to £2 15/. In miscellaneous issues buyers of Beaths moved up to £1 2/3. Tobaccos were firm. Farmers' Fertilizers maintained their position, with a market between £1 0/8 and £1 1/. Hays, Ltd. (con.) were asked for at 17/3; no sellers. Broken Hill Proprietary recovered to £4 4/. Zinc, at £3 and £3 0/6 for the ordinaries and preferences respectively, seemed cheap in comparison with Sydney prices yesterday afternoon. Hume Pipe (Australia), in anticipation of a dividend announcement, held firm at the recently improved rate of £1 1/1. r Mining had very little change in quotations. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Sales on 'Change.—New Zealand Breweries. £2 10/ ; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 4/; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £3; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), £3 0/6; G. J. Coles, £4 18/; Hume Pipe (Australia), £1 1/1; Taranaki Oilfields, 5/l (2 parcels) ; Skippers, 2d; Mount Lyell, £2 4/1 (2 parcels) : Mount Morgan, 11/5 (3 parcels). Sales Reported.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 17/11; Wilsons Cement, £1 2/9 (3 parcels) ; Radio (1936), £1 4/. Sales unlisted.—McKenzie's Department Stores, £4 7/6. Reported: Woolworths (Sydney)', ord., £6 10/9. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Stock, 15/2/43-46, 4 per cent, £ 103; Westport, Stockton (pref.), 4/9 (2 parcels) : Manawatu Knitting, £ 1 15/ ; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 3/10; Hume Pipe, £1 1/2 (3 parcels), £1 1/1; United Provisions, 9/10; Shillings, 19/, 19/1 ; Taranaki Oil, 5/ (2 parcels); Wilsons Cement, £1 2/8; Mount Lyell. £2 4/1 ; Mount Morgan, 11/5 ; New Zealand Farmers' Co-op. stock, 1940, 4J per cent, £90(2 parcels); Westport, Stockton (ord., odd lot), 2/6; Woolworths (N.Z.), rights, £4 2/ (3 parcels). Unofficial.—National Tobacco, £3 4/ (2 parcels). WELLINGTON, this day. Sales.—Morning call : Broken Hill, £4 4/ (two parcels) ; Carrier (Australasia) (January issue), £1 14/10; G. J. Coles. £4 19/. Sales reported: 4 per cent Stock, 1946. £103 (2 parcels); Commercial Bank, 17/11; Broken Hill, £4 3/9; W. R. Carpenter, £27/; British Tobacco, £2 11/3; Hume Pipe, £1 1/2; Grey River, 6/41. Unofficial list: Woolworths. Ltd., £6 11/. Sales.—Noon call: 31 per cent Stock, 1939-52, £ 103 17/6; Wellington Gas, £ 1 16/; Broken Hill, £4 4/ (2 sales)'; Coles, £4 18/6. WELLINGTON, Monday. Stock, 15/4/46-49, 4 per cent, £105 5/; 15/2/43-46, 4 per cent, £103 (2 parcels) ; Auckland Gas, £1 1/6; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 3/9, £44/; Grey River, 6/41. DUNE DIN, this day.' Sales.—Commercial Bank, 17/11 (2 parcels) ; Dominion Fertiliser, £15/; Mount Lyell, £2. 4/2, £2 4/1. J. DUNEDIIJ, Monday. New* Zealand Drug, £ 3 14/6.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 4
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