DEALINGS ON ’CHANGE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 134, 2 March 1936, Page 12

DEALINGS ON ’CHANGE

Saturday’s Business ■RETURN ON INVESTMENTS Sales recorded on Dominion stock exchanges on Saturday are shown in the following list. In the second column is g ven tl>e return based on the last annual dividend from Investment at the quoted price. In calculating the return on shares in companies which pay their dividends outside New Zealand tlie exchange rates have 'not been taken into consideration. Ike return on 4 per cent Government loans includes redemption. In the case or 3j per cent, loans the return is tor the interest alone, and covers only tlie period tor which, the. loans are tax-free:—

Sydney Stock Exchange By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, February 29. ■ Stock Exchange sales to-day included: Coinmonwcalth bopds, 3f per cent., 1949, £97/7/6; 3} per cent., 1943, £95; 3} per cent. 1942, £lOO/13/9; 3J per cent. v 1949, 4 per cent., 1941, £lO2/15/-; ..1044, £lO3/5/-1947, £lO4/7/6; 1950, £lO2/7/6; 1953; £lO2/12/6; 1957, £lO3 12/6-;- ■ 1961, £lO3/15/-: Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £2l/12/-; Com-merciab-Bank of Australia, 20/6; Tooths Brewery,-55/-; Anthony Hordern, 21//; Associated News, pref., 24/3; Australian Glass, 86/6; British Tobacco, 43/3; ■Broken Hill Proprietary, 26/-; ditto, second instalment ’ paid, 37/3 ; Henry .Tories, 41/6; Howard Smith, IJ/li; Janies Stedman, 17/10J; Wilcox Mofflin, 11/9; ‘Winchcombe, 33/-. 1 London Wool Sales ■ ■ h> ’• The Bank of New Zealand, produce department, is advised by its London office under date February 28 that prospects for all wools at the next series, commencing on March 10, are favourable. Prices for merinos and halfbreds are expected tb ■advance one penny, and medium aud coarse crossbreds a halfpenny. , When the last series of wool sales closed in London on January 30, the following prices, were, quoted by the Bank of

RAW MATERIALS ! Last Week’s Closing Rates By Telegraph.—Press Assn. Copyright (Received March 1, 6.30 p.m.) London, February 29. Friday’s closing prices for the following raw materials were as follow, those for February 21 being shown in parentheses) :— Cotton: Liverpool quotation, good American middling, spot, 6.’J4d. a lb. (6.171 d. ; April delivery, 5.72<1. a lb. (5.88 d. Rubber: Para. B]d. a lb. (same) ; plantation smoked ribbed sheet. 7 3-Sd. a lb. (same). Jute: February-March shipment. Indian jute. Dundee quotation, £l9 a ton (£lB/17/6). Copra: March-April shipment. South Sea to London or Rotterdam, £l3/12/6 a tou.Kfld); smoked, to Marseilles or Genoa, £l2/15/- a ton (£l3/5/-) ; plantation Rabaul, to London or Rotterdam, £l4/5/- a ton (£l4/17/6), Linseed oil: £2B/15/- a ton (same). Turpentine: 44/- a cwt. (43/9).

WELLINGTON. Yield p.c. Sale on investprice. meat. E s. d. £ s. d. Inser. Stk.. 4 p.c., 1940 102 0 0 3 11 10 S British Insurance . 4 13 9 2 10 10 Dunlop Perdriau .... *0 15 5 — ■ Ditto GT- PnloT (2) *0 15 3 3 15 0 3 B 8 1 4 3 2 12 Mount Morgan *0 16 4 — Ditto *0 10 5 — — Unofficial list: N.Z. Woolpack, Tex- . 0 11 0 ■ ■ ’Late. sale Friday. AUCKLAND. The Stock Exchange was closed to-day. CHRISTCHURCH. .£. s. d. £ s. d. If. 8. and. A. . Bank ... .. B 4 0 2 8 4 Goldsbrough, Mort .. 1 13 0 3 12 8 Ditto 1 12 11 3 12 10 X.Z. Retrig. (2) .... 1 0 6 5 7 3 Tooth and Co., rights 1 13 3 — British Tobacco (2) . 2 10 2 Ditto 2 2 9 2 10 1 Broken--Hill- Pty. (2) 3 17 3 4 11 G. Coles ■ 3 14 B 0 1 s 3 7 I' Mount Morgan (3) ... 0 10 4 — Sales reported: Comm. Bank o£ Aust. (3) , 0 19 11 2 18 7South British Ins. .. *4 13 9 2 10 10 »1 5 It) 4 5 2 Tooth and Co., rights 1 13 3 0 0 3 Unofficial list: Woolworths Ltd., ord. 6 10 0 •— •Late sale Friday. . • DUNEDIN. £ s. d. £ s. d Comm. Bank of Aust. 0 19 9 2 19 1 N.Z. Breweries 2 11 9 2 14 1 G. J*. Coles 3 14 6 3 7 1 Skippers 0 0 3 N.Z. Invest. Trust .. 100 0 0 —

New Zealand:— Per lb. d. d. Merinos, 60/64's— .Super, ...... ... 16 to 14 Ordinary ......... ... 14i to .15 Inferior ... Ill to 121 Halfbreds— 56/58’s ... 13| to 14J 56’s .. ... 124 to 13 50/56’s ... 10! to 11 Crossbreds— 50's .... to 104 48/50’9 ... 91 to !H • 46/48's 44/40'e ...■ 81 to fl ... . Si to 81 4O744’s : ... 8 to Si 36740's ......... 7| to 8’