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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24386, 12 October 1944, Page 7

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♦ STOCK EXCHANGES price movements IRREGULAR .Thorp was sustained inquiry In most •orOons of the market on the ChristShtirch Stock Exchange yesterday, and a Moderate turnover was recorded. Price Elements were irregular. Apart from Vestibule business, the following transacc were reported ■ on ’Change.—Listed Stocks: £235 wool Bonds, 1949. 19s 6d (2); 100 Woolworths* 5 (Syd.. ord.). 21s 2d; 400 Snowy Piver (cum dividend), 7s 7d (2). sSes Reported—Listed Stocks: 50 National Bank of Australasia (£5 paid). £6 ks- 200 Gear Meat, 25s lOd; 248 Dominion clotures 17s (odd parcel): 265 Dominion Solders’ 8s (odd parcel): 50 Whitcombe fnd Tombs (cum dividend). £6 4s 6d. Sales Reported.—Unlisted Stocks: 100 whakatafie Paper Mills (pref.) (late sale c n Tuesday). 25s 3d. LATEST QUOTATIONS

fiZ Govt. Debentures: 2i p.c. Inscr., 1017 b £97 17s 6d; 4 p.c. Inscr., 1949-52, « £lO4 2s 6d: 4 p.c, Inscr., 1952-55, s. £lO5 lie Other Debentures; Cooke and Son. knc 29/4/47, b. £9B, s. £IOO 10s. Banks: Australasia, s. £9 6s 6d; Natl, of A/asia i£s naid). b. £6 7s; Natl, of N.Z., s. £2 14s 3d - New South Wales, b. £35; New Zealand, b. £2 4s 6d. Insurance: Standard b £3 19s. Loan and Agency: invincible Building, b, £5 2s 6d; United Pudding, b. £1 3s 6d. Shipping: Huddart, porker b £3 Is 6d, s. £3 2s 9d; P. and n Defd Stock, b. £2 10s. Frozen Meat: Southland, b. £2 10s. Woollens: Bruce, s. ' £i 14s Id; Kaiapoi (7s paid), b. 7s, s. 8s art* Oamaru, b. £1 7s 3d, s. £1 8s 3d. Coal: Westport, b. £1 8s 3d, 's. £1 .s 6d. Gas: Auckland, b. 7s 9d, s. 8s 4d. Breweries: padfns b. 17s 6d. s. 18s; Dominion, £2 3s art- New Zealand, b. £2 2s Id, s. £2 2s id’ Miscellaneous: Alloy Steel, b. £2 8s fid's £2 12s 6d; Booth, Macdonald (pref.), i W 3d: Col. Sugar, b. £56, s. £56 15s; Ton Brick, s. 10s 4d: Dorn. Pictures, b. 17s- Dom. Builders, s. 8s 3d; Dunlop Rubier b £1 4s 4d, s. £1 ss; Farmers Trading’ b £1 5s 8d: G. J. Coles, b. £3 8s «d- Howard Smith, s. £1 8s; 1.C.1., Aust. and NZ. (pref.). b. £1 8s 3d; Mason, Struthers (£1 paid), s. 19s 3d; McKenzies, Ltd s £3 5s 6d; N.Z. Drug Co.; b. £4 18s 3d- NZ. Farmers’ Co-op. (Ist pref.), b. £4 10s s. £5 10s; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. P'A” pref.) b. £3 Bs, s. £3 15s; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. C'B” pref.), s. £3 12s 6d; NZ Forest Products, b. 6s Bd. s. 7s; N.Z. Newspapers, b. £2 Is 6d; Reid Rubber, b. £1 7s 6d: Reid Rubber (contr.), b. 18s Sd s. 18s: Taranaki Oilfields, b. Is Id; Siiverton Trams, b. £1 10s 6d: Whitcombe and Tombs, b. £6 3s; Wilcok, Moffiin, b. 11s- Woolworths (Syd„ ord.), b. £1 Is Id’s £1 Is 3d. Aust. Mining: Rawang Tin s. 8s 3d. N.Z. Mining: Snowy River (cum idiv.), b. 7s, s. 7s Bd. AUCKLAND Sales.— Dalgety, £8 0s; Govt. Bonds, 15/4/46-49, 4 p.c., £102; Ins. Stock, 15/5/5356 3 P-C., £9B ss; Ins. Stock, 15/1/53-57, SS’d.c., £lO2 2s 6d: Ins. Stock. 31/5/54-58, 4 p.c., £lO6 15s: Wool Bonds, 1/2/49, 19s sd) 19s 4d: National Insurance. 24s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 45s 6d; Dominion Pictures (odd lot). 17s;' Wool Bonds, 1/2/48, 20s Id; Auck. Gas Perp, Deb. Stock, £B7 ilOs; Bank of Australasia (odd lot), £9 8s; Colonial Sugar, £56 15s (2); Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 56s 6d; N.Z. Newspapers, 41s 9d; Sanford, 8s 3d. WELLINGTON Sales (late Tuesday).—lns. Stock. 81/5/54-58. 4 p.c., £lO6 15s; Union Bank, £8 7s. Sales yesterday; Ins. Stock, 1/8/46, 2i p.c., £99 ss; Ins. Stock, 15/9/57-60, 31 p.c., £IOO 2s 6d; Bank of N.Z., 44s 9d; Gear Jljat, 25s lOd. DUNEDIN Sales Reported.—National Bank of N.Z., 85s; Wool Bonds, 1/2/48, 20s Id; Wool Bonds, 1/2/49, 19s 4d; Bank of N.Z., 44s fld; National Insurance, 24s 6d; Inscr. Stock. 15/12/53-56. 3 p.c,, £9B.