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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 5

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QUIET REOPENING Business reopened quietly on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day, with quotations generally firm on closing levels. Offers were forward for Colonial Sugars and A.C.I, at the late sale prices, while the keen demand for New Zealand industrials was well maintained. Buyers dropped out for Auckland Gas "on the announcement of a reduced dividend over the full year. Government issues were quietly steady. SALES COMPLETED At the 9.45 a.m. call to-day:—National Bank of Australasia (paid), £12: National Insurance, £1 1/9; N.Z. Forest Products, i/\ Liberty Loan, 15/9/52-55, 3 p.c, £99 12/6. At the 11.45 a.m. call to-day:—Commercial Bank of Australia. 17/; Woolworths (Sydney), 17/10 (17/9). Unofficial: Whakatane Paper Mills debs.. 30/9/43, h\'z p.c, £89 (—). Last sale price In parentheses where changed. LATEST QUOTATIONS Buyers Sellers Commercial Bank Australia . 16/11 .. 17/1 National Bank of N.Z 2/9/3 .. 2/10/6 Bank of New South Wales .. 30/10/0 ... — Bank of New Zealand 2/1/6 .. 2/2/9 Union Bank of Australia ... 7/12/6 .. — National Insurance 1/1/6 .. — New Zealand Insurance .. 3/17/0 .. — South British Insurance .... 3/10/0 .. 3/10/3 Standard Insurance 3/9/6 .. — Farm. Co-op.:Auct. (£5 pd.) 4/7/6 .. 4/13/0 Goldsbrough Mort 1/7/9 .. 1/8/6 Traders' Finance 9/6 .. — Pukemiro Coal 17/6 .. — Renown Coal (ord.) 9/0 .'. — Taupiri Coal (ord.) 1/4/3 .. — Auckland Gas (cum div.) .. — .. 7/8 Howard Smith 1/4/3 .. 1/5/6 Northern Steam 6/7 .. 7/0 Leyland O'Brien 1/0/0 .. — Bruce Woollen (ord.) 1/5/3 .. — Kaiapoi Woollen 1/0/9 .. 1/1/0 Kaiapoi Woollen (con.) 7/4 .. 7/10 Dominion Breweries (ord.) .. 1/13/9 .. 1/14/6 New Zealand Breweries .... 1/17/0 .. 1/17/6 Aust. Consolid. Industries .. 2/10/0 .. — British Tobacco 2/7/6 .. 2/8/9 Broken Hill Proprietary 2/1/9 .. 2/3/0 Colonial Sugar 53/15/0 .. 55/0/0 Consolidated Brick 9/3 .. 9/9 Electrolytic Zinc 2/12/0 .. 2/13/0 . Farmers' Trading 1/1/8 .. 1/1/9 Gear Meat 19/9 .. — G. J. Coles 2/18/6 .. 3/0/0 1.C.1. (A. & N.Z.) (pref.) . 1/4/0 .. — K.D.V. Boxes 10/3 .. 12/0 McKenzies 2/2/9 .. 2/3/9 M.K. Manufacturers 6/2 .. 7/0 N.Z. Drug 4/4/0 .. — N.Z. Newspapers 1/16/0 .. — Peters Ice Cream (N.Z.) .... 15/6 .. 16/6 Reid Rubber .' 1/6/0 .. — Robinson Ice Cream 1/4/0 .. 1/6/0 Sanford (ord.) 4/6 .. — Taranaki Oil Fields 3/0 .. 5/3 Wilsons Cement 18/6 .. — Woolworths (N.Z.) 15/6 .. 16/0 Woolworths (Sydney) 17/7 .. 18/0 Martha Mines 9/4 .. 9/8 Broken Hill South 1/7/0 .. 1/8/3 Mount Lyell 1/9/1 .. 1/9/5 Mount Morgan (ord.) 9/6 .. 10/0 Mt. Morgan (pf.) (ex div.) . 1/1/0 .. — War Loans: 1/10/5S , 94/0/0 .. — 1/8/51-54, 3 p.c 98/0/0 .. 99/0/0 15/5/53-56, 3 p.c 99/0/0 .. 99/5/0 Inscribed Stock: 15/9/57-60, 31 p.c 101/15/0 .. — 15/4/46-49, 4 p.c 104/0/0 ..104/10/0 A.H.8., 9/7/61, 41 p.c 109/0/0 ..110/10/0 SOUTHERN EXCHANGES Wellington, this day.—Sales reported: Naiional Bank of Australasia (fully paid), £12 (two sales); McKenzies Department Stores, £2 3/.