WELLINGTON EXCHANGE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 70, 15 December 1939, Page 12

WELLINGTON EXCHANGE

Yesterday’s Quotations

The latest buying ami selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exchange were as follows:—

High Price Of Wheat

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. CHICAGO. December 13. Wheal sold at over a dollar a bushel for the first, time since October, 1937. The price rose by 5 cents on Hie crest of the biggest wave of buying since the war. Closing prices were 4 to 4} cents up. Heavy profit-taking cut off part of the gains. December wheat closed at 1 dollar 2 cents, the best for the past two years.

N.Z. GOVT. LOANS. Buyers. Sellers. £ s. . £ 6. d. 3 p.c. Stock, 15/7/193941 99 6 — 34 p.e. ditto, 15/3/194113 !»'•' 5 0 — Ditto, 15/11/1941-43 . 99 0 —— 33 p.c. ditto, 15/11/ 1938-41 99 — 6 —- 4 p.e. ditto, 15/3/194043 99 17 0 —- Ditto, 15/2/1943-46 99 10 0 —— Ditto, 30/11/1948 ... 99 10 0 1(H) 6 Ditto, 15/4/1940-49 . 99 0 0 —— Ditto, 15/5/1949-52 . 97 7 f) —• Ditto, 15/6/1052-55 . 99 0 0 — Ditto, 31/5/1954-58 . 98 0 0 —— 3 p.c. Bonds, 15/7/ 2 1939-41 99 6 —— 3} p.e. ditto, 15/11/ 1938-41 99 2 6 — BANKS. Australasia 8 17 6 — Comrel. of Aust., ord. 0 16 6 Ditto, pref 8 15 0 — Comrel. Banking Co., Sydney —■ 23 0 0 National of N.Z c2 ■j 0 National of Australasia, £10 paid 13 £ 6 30 — New South Wales ... 30 0 0 17 6 New Zealand 2 0 3 0 7 Ditto, D. long term 1 6 4 —— Union of Aust. 8 1 6 — FINANCIAL. •Abraham ;ind Williams 0 9 G Ditto perp. deb. stk. 0 IS 0 General Finance 0 1G 0 Goldsbrough, Mort and Co 1. 11 Newton King, pref. . 0 3 N.Z Guarantee Corp. 0 3 9 0 11 N.Z. Invest., Mort, and Deposit — 0 9 6 N.Z. Loan and Mere., ord. stock c23 0 0 — GAS. Auckland 0 it; 8 — Christchurch — 1 6 6 Feilding 0 w — Wellington, ord 1 11 0 — INSURANCE National of N.Z — 0 18 10 Now Zealand 2 19 1 -— Standard 2 I« o — MEAT PRESERVIN G. Gear Meat cO 14 1 — N.Z. Refrigerating, 10/paid 0 9 0 —• Wellington Meat Exp., 19 pref — 0 6 TRANSPORT. Hnddart, Parker, pref. 1 7 0 — Union Steam, pref. .. xl 0 xl — 3 P. and O. defd. stock K Kelburne Tramway, 3 pref — 1 3 WOOLLEN. Bond's Hosiery Mills — 1 1 Bruce 0 15 10 Oamaru —- 0 1 4 3 Prestige, N.Z., pref. . 1 0 9 ■—• Wellington, ord 5 5 0 *— Ditto, pref 5 7 0 — COAL. Kaitangata -1 8 6 —— West port 1 3 8 — TIMBER. Kauri 1 1 3 —— Leyland-O’Bricu 0 11 6 —— Rotoiti 0 3 0 BREWERIES. Carlton J 12 0 — Dominion xl 10 !) — N.Z. Breweries xl 10 1 Tooth and Co 2 18 0 - IS 3 MISCELLANEOUS 15 Anthony Hordern ... — 0 9 Aust. Consol. Industries, contrib 0 17 0 — British Tobacco .... x2 13 3 —— Broken Hill Pty., cum bonus issue 4 6 0 4 7 0 Claude Neon Lights 9 (N.Z.) " 15 — Colonial Sugar >b 10 0 —— 11 Consol. Brick & Pipe xO R i > 0 8 David Jones 2 O 0 —— Dental & Medical Sup10 ply 0 0 —• Dominion Fertilizer .. 1 • 1 r» — Dunlop Perdriau .... 1 0 3 —— Electrolytic Zinc, ord. 3 4 0 — Ditto, pref 3 4 19 9 Felt and Textiles ... 1 0 w 0 G. J. Coles — 4 4 o Howard Smith, ord. . 1 0 —— Macduffs, ord — 0 4 0 Ditto, pref —— 0 12 0 McKenzie’s —- X w Moturoa Oil —— 0 4 0 Ditto, pref —— 0 4 0 N.Z. Drug 3 13 0 — N.Z. Paper Mills .... 1 0 ——• 6 R. & E. Tlngey, pref. —. cl 0 Sharland and Co., ord. 0 13 9 — Ditto, pref 0 i;> 9 —— Taranaki Oilfields ... — 0 2 Taranaki Oil Development — 0 0 Wilsons (N.Z.) Cement 0 17 10 — Woolworths Ltd., ord. — 1 . > 1 Woolworths (N.Z.), ord. 0 10 0 0 16 6 Woolworths Properties, prefd. ord 1 5 4 — Hume Steel, pref. ... — xl 4 MINING. Addisons Flat cO 1 0 — Grey River 0 IS 0 0 18 6 Mossy Creek 9 0 ', i — Waihi Investments .. 0 0 7 —— Australian Mining. Broken Hill South ••• — 1 13 6 Mount Lyell 1 12 9 1 13 3 Mount Morgan 0 f) 7 0 10 0 Wellington Alluvials . —— 0 4 — Emperor 0 14 0 — OVERSEAS LISTINGS Woolworths Holdings (South Africa) ... 0 15 7 ( 16 11 c Cum dividend, x 1 liv dead. Unofficial List Buyers. Sellers. £ 8. d. 1 8. d. Assoc. Motorists’ Petrol, pref 1 4 t > — .1. J. Niven 0 9 6 —— Scoullar and Co. ... C 7 0 — Self ridges (A/a si a.), Ltd t 10 0 Selfridges (N.Z.), Ltd. 0 1 9 —