ON 'CHANGE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 3

ON 'CHANGE

STRONG SHARE DEMAND Buvers' requirements were only fractionallv met in business on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day, and sellers, while quoting fairly freely, seemed little disposed to make concessions. Broken Hill Proprietary were dealt in at £2 1/ it (ex dividend), against the cum dividend price of £2 2/3. Bids for New Zealand Drugs were raised 2/ to £4 7/ without producing a seller. Buyers considerably outnumbered sellers in the Government loan section. SALES COMPLETED At the 3 p.m. call yesterday:—Bank N.S.W.. £32 10/; N.Z. Insurance. £4; Auckland Gas. 7/2 (7/11: M.K. Manufacturers. 7/1: Woolworths (N.Z.) (pre(-). £2; Martha Mines. 10/4 (10/3): Mount Lyell. £1 8/9 (£1 8/6). Unofficial: Auckland Farmers' Freezine. £1 3/. »__, „,„ At the 9.45 a.m. call to-day:—Bank N.S.W., £33 10/; Union Bank, £7 13/ (£7 13/6); Rotoiti Timber, 5/ (4/6); Wilsons Cement, 18'; Stock, 15/5/4952. 4 p.c. £105 15/ (£lO5 12/6). At the 11.45 a.m. call to-day:—Broken Hill Proprietary (ex div.). £2 1/7' i (£2 2'3): N.Z. Newspapers (ex div.) (odd lot), £1 15/4 (£1 16/8); Wilsons Cement, 18/. Last sale price in parentheses where changed.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES Wellington, this day.—Liberty Loan, 1953-56. 3 pc. £99 12/6. Unofficial: Whakatane Paper Mills. 8/6. Sales reported: N.Z. Insurance. £4 (4); Wellington Woollen (ord.), £8 5/; Rotoiti Timber. 5/: Claude Neon (N.Z.). £1 6/ (2): Liberty Loan. 1953-56. 3 p.c. £99 12/6; N.Z. Breweries. £1 17/: Colonial Sugar (cum div.), £55 15/. . Duncdin, this day.—Reported: Kaiapol Woollen (ord.). £1 21.

Buyers Sellers Bank Australasia 9/0/0 .. 9/10/0 Commercial Bank Australia . 16/1 .. 16/6 Comml. Bk. Australia (pf.) . 10/0/0 .. 10/10/0 Eng., Scottish & Australian . 3/18/0 .. — Bank New South Wales 32/0/0 .. 33/0/0 Bank New Zealand 2/1/0 .. 2/1/3 Union Bank Australia 7/12/0 .. 1/14/0 New Zealand Insurance 3/19/9 .. 4/0/6 South British Insurance 3/9/0 .. 3/10/0 Standard Insurance — ■. 3/12/0 Dom. Invest 1/1/0 .. 1/2/9 Farm. Co-op. Auct (£5 pd.) 4/11/0 .. 4/14/0 Farm. Co-op. Auct (£2 pd.) 1/11/0. .. 1/14/0 Farm. Co-op. Auct. (£1 pd.) 15/3 .. 16/3 Goldsbrough Mort 1/7/6 .. .— Wright Stephenson (ord.) .. 1/2/0 .. — Wright Stephenson (pref.) . 1/1/6 .. .— Kaitangata Coal 1/13/0 .. — Westport-Stktn. (ord.) — .. '3/0 Auckland Gas 7/1 .. 7/4 Christchurch Gas 1/4/0 .. —- Devonport Ferry 1/4/9 .. -— Northern Steam 6/8 .. — Bartholomew Timber 1/1/6 .. — Leyland O'Brien 1/0/0 .. — Bruce Woollen (ord.) l/S/6 .. — Kaiapoi Woollen (con.) 7/9 .. 8/6 Carlton Breweries 3/5/0 .. 3/10/0 Dominion Breweries (ord.) .. 1/14/0 .. 1/15/0 New Zealand Breweries — .. 1/17/6 Alloys Steel (N.Z.) (ex div.) 1/16/6 .. —* Hadfields 10/3 .. ,13/3 Broken Hill Proprietary .... 2/1/6 .. ,2/2/0 Burns. Philp 2/14/0 .. t ~ Bycroft (ex dlv.) 2/7/9 .. . —r Colonial Sugar (ex dlv.) 55/0/0 .. 56/0/0 Electrolytic Zinc 2/14/0 .. 2/16/6 Farmers' Trading 1/2/1 .. 1/2/2 Gordon and Gotch 2/4/0 .. 3/9/0 K.D.V. Boxes 11/0 .. 12/0 M3Cduffs (ord.) — .. 10/6 McKenzies 2/3/0 .. 2/5/3 Milne and Choyce (ord.) 1/1/0 .. —, Morris Hedstrom .. : 1/5/0 .. : -rNational Electrical 1/7/0 .. >~- N.Z. Drug 4/7/0 .. —; N.Z. Farmers' Fertilizer — .. "1/1/0 N.Z. Farmers' Fertilizer (pf.) 1/3/0 .. —. Peters Ice Cream (N.Z.) 18/6 .. -1/0/0 Reid Rubber 1/6/0 .. ; 1/7/0 Taranaki Oil Fields 3/3 .. ; -3/9 Wairakei 4/9 ... J 15/9 Whittome Stevenson 1/1/3 .. '—i Woolworths (N.Z.) — .. _ 15/6 Woolworths (Sydney) 15/8 .. : 16/0 Blackwater Mines 18/0 .. -^ Emperor 13/3 .. 14/3 Mount Morgan (ord.) 10/2 .. , lp/9 War Loans: 1/10/53 94/0/0 .. 94/15/0 15/5/48. 2'/ s p.c 98/12/6 .. jf-; 15/5/53-58, 3 p.c 99/10/0 .. 99/12/6 Inscribed Stock: „ < 15/9/57-60. 3i p.c 101/5/0 ..101/15/0 15/4/46-49, 4 p.c 102/0/0 .. 103^0/0 Abraham & Williams (perp. VJ-" stock) 75/0/0 .. 8520/0 Auckland Gas (parp. deb.) ..-87/10/0 .. 89/0/0