SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 8

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

TO-DAY IN CHRISTCHURCH.

MORE BUSINESS RECORDED. - ■ SHARP RECOVERY IN ZINCS: (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") CHBISTGHURCH, this day. A fair volume of sales was recorded on 'Change this morning, some values being substantially firmer. Metals accounted for almost all the business. New Zealand .industrials again had a lean call. Government 1949 stock was weaker at £100 15/ and later buyers 10/ lower, with no closing sellers. National Insurances were weak with unsupported sellers at 10/8. The insurance section as a whole was slack. Breweries were fully quoted, but the only issue to hold firm rates was Swan's, for which the market was 20/6 and 28/. The sharpest recovery was in Electrolytic Zinc preferences selling at 43/2 and 43/. The ordinaries, ox dividend, had quotations from 30/3 to 39/0. Dunlops were' active at 20/7. The dividend announcement of lMsd sterling made no change to Rawang Tin quotations, which had sales from 8/ to 8/1. North Broken Hills were a fraction easier.

SALES RECORDED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. fiftrW 15/2/43-40, 4 per cent, t-inn lu /~/' | 3-4U, '' l'er cent, .1100 —/0; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 0/0; Imperial Chemicals (pref.), £1 l/s----ilolJ v 2, rtlls (Sydney) £1 0/1, (2ml pref.) *"1,8/7; Wnihl Investment, 8/7, S/(i. lliis Day.—Morning call: Myers Hmponm r n L )~ ,r 1 14/S - £1 »/ 7 ; lln.kon Hill, 11 lu/i,. Reported: New Zealand breweries, £2; Imperial Industries (pref.) ''1 0/1 Woolwortlls limited (ord.), CHUISTCHUHCH. Friday.—Christ church City, 21/3/40-41 •U per cent £102 10/; Chrisicimicli llralimgo, 30/(>/t><>, -1J per cent, £103* Bank of Australasia, £10 10/; Broken Illli lfi/»; Broken Hill South, £1 10/,!; North Broken Hill, £2 5/3-i^-,.n Ze, ll' lna dinners' Co-operative! 17/U/40, 4J per cent, £00 10/, odd lot; Woolworths Holdings (South Africa), 14/7 odd lot. —Broken Hill Proprietary, .io/0; Dnnlop renlrlau, 20/7 (3) Kleetrolytlc Zinc (pref. ex div.). 43/2 43/North Broken Hill (cum div.). '4D/3' Kawanj; Tin (cum div.), 8/ (2), 8/1 Reported Stock, 1949, 4 per cent, DUNEDIN. Friday.—Guarantee Corporation, 4/2Milhurn Lime, £1 15/; Gillespie's Beach, Day.—North Broken Hill, £2 5/4,