CHRISTCHURCH STOCK EXCHANGE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 3 May 1930, Page 12

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK EXCHANGE.

LATEST QUOTATIONS.

YESTERDAY'S SALES.

CHRISTCHURCH.

Bales on 'Change—- £ a. <J. South British Insurance ... 218 9 Christchurcli Gas (10s paid) (3) ... ... ••• 0 1 3 2 New Zealand Breweries (2) 211 9 Staples-Brewery ... 3 8 4 Tooths Brewery (8) Amalgamated Wireless (contr.) IJO British Tobacco ... J*° ? Mount Lyell (2) ••• J Z 1 Cornish Point (Is paw) ... 0 0 7

Sales Reported— New Zealand Breweries (late sale Ist) ... 212 9 Staples Brewery ... f ° £ British Tobacco 11° » New Zealand Breweries (9\ ••• 211 » 2 12 0

New Zealand Government 5i per cent. Inscr., 1932 98 15 0

AUCKLAND. Sales on 'Change— X £ s. dStock, 1936, 51 per cent. .. "52 Auckland Gas, 1935, 6} p.c. 102 0 0 Bank of New South Wales 38 15 0 Bank of New Zealand .. 218 3 Auckland Gas .. • • 13 9 Devonport Steam Ferry .. 116 Milne and Choyce (deb. stock) 16 3 N.Z. Refrigerating (con.) .. 0 5 0 Moanataiari (fully paid) .. 0 16

WELLINGTON. Bales Reported £ s. d,

Four and a half per cent. Now Zealand Government Stock, 1938 97 17 6 New Zealand Breweries ... 213 0 British Tobacco (ord.) ... 119 3 Staples and Co. ... ... 2 8 6 Burns. Philp and Co. ... 115 0 Wailii Gold Mining ... 013 9 Commercial Bank of Aus- _ tralia (ord.) ... ... 1 011 Gear Meat Co. ... 118 0

DUNEDIN. Sale on 'Change—- £ s. d

Bank of New Zealand (cum. div.) 2 18 0

DIVIDEND DECLARED. \

IMreotors o! the Perpetual Executors an<f Trustee*' Association of Australia, Ltd., have doclared, subject to audit, an interim dividend for the half-year ended Maroh Blst at the rate of 12J per cent, per annum, payable on Hay 7th

WHEAT YIELDS. Information has been received from the Internationa] Institute of Agriculture, Borne, that the Argentina wheat crop for the 1928-30 season has been officially estimated at 42 953,000 bags of 2001b net The productions ior previous seasons were" 1928-29, 92 209,000 baea; 1927-28, 71,760,000 bags; average for the five years l 9"8-04 to 1937-98, 66,405,000 bags West Australian wheat Is.largely used in South Africa for blending purposes, and this season's crop is estimated at about 40 miff, on bushels. The area under wheat in West Australia has risen gradually from about one million acres, producing 18 million bushels, in 1913-14, to 8,840,000 acres, producing nearly 9i million bushel*, in 1928-29.

FRILDING STOCK SALE.

(nui ISSOCtJLTTOK TKUtOBAK.) PEILDIHO, May 2. Owing to the presence of a keen outsld* buyer, than was t rite of about 8s i hwi in fftt cbeep at the Feiiding stock sale today, when there waa a good yarding. Fat lambs (primest) mode up to 20a 9d, good 17a to IBa, medium 14a 6d to 16a Id. (at •wea (primest) 21a 8d to 28a, food 19s to 19a 6d, medium 17a 4d to 18a Bd. fair from 14a Od, fat twfc-tooths (good) 24a 6d, two. tooth wethera 22a 4d. Storea- ewes B.W.S.P. Rama 17a 9d. four and fltre-year 18a Id, fourrear 24s Sd, ewe lamba (woolly) SOa 4d. mixed ae* (poor) 6i 7d, b.f. woolly 11a Bd, two-tooth wethera 10a sd. Dairy Stock—Springing heifera #ls for choice, othera from £7 6a to £lO 10a, springing: cowe £8 10a to £9. . _ Store Cattle—The market waa eaaler. Jeraey cowa made £4 16a, young cowa £2 16*, empty heifera £4, P.A. cowa £2 17a fid, weaner heifera £2 14a to £8 2a, red cowa to £2 18a Bd. blaek and white eowa £3 to £3 12«. Fat Cattle—There waa • drop in values, good beef selling at 26a per 1001b. Fat cows made up to £7 12a <sd, lighter aorta £6 11a to £6 16a 6d, and vealers tQ £3 10s fid.

METHVEN STOCK SALE. The uaual fortnightly atock aale was held in the Methven saleyards on Thursday. The yarding of fat sheep showed a considerable in. crease over those of many sales past, and the quality of the entriea waa good, especially for the time of the year. Buyers were operating right op to sehedule rates.' Top price for lambs waa 22b fid for a line of 74 sold by Messra Dalgety and Co., Ltd., 011 account of Mr W. Tizzard (Barrhill), Several other good linea made from 21a Id to 21a lOd. The store sheep offering comprised mostly cull linea of all classes of sheep, mostly ewes. The prices were in keeping with the quality, but there la still a moderate demand< for younger owes of good quality and open woolled. There waa only a small offering of cattle, while piga were in much shorter supply, only 25 being penned- These met with good competition at prices in advance of the aale of two weeks ago. The principal sales recorded were:-—-Fat Sheep—74 fat lambs at 22s 6d, 26 at 21s lOd, 83 at 21s 7d, 42 at 21s Id, 15 at 17a 4d. 243 at 19s Bd, 41 at 16s 6d, 28 at 10s 4d, 68 at 19s 4d, 123 at 19s Bd, 85 at 17a lid, 57 at 17s 4d, 87 at 10s 2d, 19 at 20s 4d, 26 at 20b lOd, 46 at 20s lid, 193 a* 21s 6d, 40 at 10s 6d, 40 at 16s 7d, SO at 19s 4d, 17 wethers at 14s 9d, 10 lambs at 19s 7d, 83 ewes at lis, 81 lambs at 19a 7d, 83 ewea at lis, 31 lambs at 19s, 6 wethers at 17s, 11 ewes at 9s, 33 at 10s, 12 ewes at lis lOd, 40 wethera at 19s 6d, 24 ewes at lis 4d, 24 at 16s 3d, 21 at lis lid, 13 at 9s, 55 at 12s, 9 wethers at 18s Id, 16 wethers at 20s, 11 do at 20s. Store Sheep—36 cull ewes at 3s, 182 threequarterbred wether lambs at 7s lid, 87 cull lambs at 4b Sd, 18 four, six, and eight-tootb three-quarterbrcd ewes at 14s, 66 four, tlx, and eight-tooth halfbred ewes in lamb at lis 7d, 47 full and fa'ling-mouth three-quar-torbred ewea at 7a 9d, 21 two-tooth to fullmouth halfbred ewes at 15s 9d, 49 full and fail'ng-mouth halfbred ewes at 6s 9d, 60 full and failing-mouth crossbred ewes at Bs, 56 store lambu at 12s, 28 ewes at 2a Bd, 62 do at 2s Bd. 82 thr«e-quarterbred sound-mouth ewes at 10s 6d, 247 four, six, and eight-tootb half and three-quarterbred ewes at 10s 9d.

Onttle—X cow £3, Jersey heifers £0 10s, £6, and £3 6s, 1 heifer in calf £6 ss. Pigs—2s weaners from 6s to 16s, according to size.

PROPERTY SALES REPORT.

Messrs Ford and Hadfleld, Ltd., have t*> report having effected the following sales slnoe Easter.

On acoount of Mr Jj. J. Darwin; Bungalow property situated 81ater street, Shirley. to Mr Shaw. On acoount of client: Section situated Colombo street, Sydenham, to Dr. Farr. 1 On account of Mrs Kilburn: Dwelling , and five aorea situated Aylesbury, to Mr Parris. On account of Mr E. G. Norman: His very fine property, situated at the corner of Bennett street and May's ro|d, Papanui, to Mrs O. R. Penny On acoount of Miss Penny: Bungalow residence, situated Bealey avenue, to a client. —0

N.Z. Government Debentures — 4J per oont. Inscribed, 1933 '4J per cent. Bonds, 1930 •• •• per cent. Bonds, 1038 and 1030 54 per cent. Inscribed, 1937 .. 5i per cent. Inscribed, 1932 •• 5j per cent. Inscribed, 1333 5i per cent. Inscribed, 1941 oi per cent. Bond3, 1933 and 3936 55 per cent. Inscribed, 1936 and 1937 .. Buyers. •C s. d. 97 12 6 99 0 0 97 15 0 99 7 6 99 7 6 Sellers. £ B. d. 97 10 0 93 0 0 96 15 0 07 0 0 May 4th, 1929. Buyers. Sellers. " £ 0. d. £ e. cL 99 17 6 100 0 0 89 10 0 — 99 10 0 — 99 10 0 •— Other Debentures — North Canterbury Hospital, 5J per cent., 1910 Glaxo, 6| per -cent., 1915 N.Z Refrig., 6J per cent., 1945 100 0 90 10 95 10 0 0 0 101 0 0 - - Banks — Adelaide (cum div.) Au3t. of Commerce Comm. of Aust. Comm. of Sydney .. K., S., and A. (ex div.) National of Australasia (£5 paid, cum d'.v.) National of Now Zealand .. .. ' .. Now South Wales .. •• New Zealand (cum div.) .. Queensland National (cum div.) Union of Aust. .. .. •• COO 13 9 10 6 6 3 6 7 8 0 0 5 6 38 7 6 2 17 10 6 0 0 11 6 0 7 0 0 1 3 11 110 19 15 0 6 5 0 7 10 0 6 8 0 2 18 0 11 12 0 30 0 1 16 1 10 27 7 9 15 7 1 fil 12 3 1 9 13 15 7 6 1 1 6 0 6 6 6 6 6 10 3 6 1 16 3 1 10 2 27 12 6 9 15 6 52 0 0 8 2 0 15 9 0 Insurance — New Zealand ... — Queensland South British Standard .. .. •• 3 4 2 10 0 0 2 4 2 0 2 19 2 17 6 0 0 0 a c 8 S 6 6 2 0 9 3 8 0 3 5 0 3 5 0 Loan and Agency— Dalgety and Co. (cum div.) Goldsbrough, Mort National Mortgage N.Z. Guarantee Corpn. .. United Building Society .. .. 11 1 1 10 2 18 0 7 0 6 6 6 11 2 6 1 11 S 8 5 0 0 7 10 0 13 11 15 13 2 13 4 5 0 8 0 15 0 6 0 8 9 15 17 0 2 18 9 4 5 6 0 8 10 0 16 3 Shipping— P. and O. Deferred Stock — — — 2 12 0 2 18 0 3 0 0 Frozen Meat— Canterbury (ord.) .. Canterbury (prof.) .. ~ « N.Z. Refrig. (£1 paid) N.Z Refrig. (10s paid) .. North Canterbury Freezing Wellington 0 10 0 4 0 8 9 9 0 6 10 4 6 0 11 0 5 0 2 0 9 0 0 3 0 9 9 8 8 5 0 0 16 0 7 1 8 0 12 0 6 0 6 6 0 8 17 6 5 2 6 0 16 S 0 7 8 19 0 Woollens — Kaiapoi (17e paid) — Kaiapoi (7s paid) .. 0 10 0 4 0 0 _ 0 IS 0 4 4 8 0 14 8 0 4 9 Coal— Grey Valley (cum div.) .. „ Weatport ... •• •» - 1 7 1 12 0 0 1 S 1 12 3 6 1 6 0 1 12 9 Gas— Auckland — - Christcburch -• Christchureb (10s paid) .. .. Timaru .. •• — 1 8 1 6 a is 1 1 6 8 0 9 1 7 0 13 1 2 0 8 0 1 4 1 6 0 18 1 4 9 4 2 6 14 8 / 0 18 4 16 8 Breweries— Carlton — — — — Foster'* • — - New Zealand .. - •• •; Staplos — -• - >" Timaru (6s paid) .. Tooheys ... — — Tootha Ward White . Star 1 12 » — 2 11 2 e 112 0 11 0 10 0 6 S 0 9 ,0 1 18 8 5 2 12 2 8 0 6 1 8 1 12 0 15 0 0 0 6 6 0 1 0 8 2 2 6 1 16 2 19 6 LI 8 9 8 "a 10 2 6 8 0 8 6 3 0 6 1 15 0 O 16 0 Miscellaneous — Allied Motors .. -- Amalgamated Wireless (contr.) Australian Glass .. •• •• Beath and Co. .. .. Beath and Co. (1» paid) Booth, Macdonald (pref.) British Tobacco .. .. Burns, Pbilp Colonial Sflgar .. -- Dunlop Perdriau Rubber .. •« Electro. Zino (ord.) .. -- *- Electro. Zinc (pref.) Hayward's Picture* .. •. *• Mt. Lyell .. •• •• N.Z. Farmers' Co-op (10» paid) .. N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. ("A" pref.) N.Z. Fanners' Co-op. ("B" pret.) N.Z. Farmers' Fertiliser N.Z. Paper Mills (cum div.) North Canterbury Co-op. Flour .. Quill, Morris .. •• Taranaki Oil •• • — — i 1 0 2 1 18 89 6 0 16 1 4 1 7 0 17 0 1 0 9 6 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 18 1 10 0 7 0 3 1 18 1 16 40 0 0 16 1 4 1 6 0 16 1 7 0 0 2 10 2 8 0 18 1 0 0 u 0 2 8 6 0 0 6 9 3 0 9 O 4 0 2 9 0 0 9 2 e 6 0 8 0 8 2 7 58 5 1 7 1 15 1 16 2 4 . 2 12 2 12 1 2 0 17 0 5 « a 7 0 7 6 9 6 3 0 0 6 6 0 7 0 1 10 10 0 8 8 2 7 9 £6 15 0 17 9 1 16 0 1 16 10 2 4 8 3 0 0 2 17 0 1 2 a 019 6 oie 0 Mining— Kawarau - - Mahakipawa .. - Okarito Stoney Creek (<5d pajfl) .. Winding Creelt (Is paid) .. Winding Creek (6d paid) .. — Cornish Point (Is paid) 0 14 (prem.) C 0 6J 0 0 7 0 0 6 0 0 7 V 010 0 0 1 0 19 0 0 74 0 0 10 0 0 74 0 0 8 0~1 3 0 10 (prem.) 0 0 11 o7 24 0 10