STOCKS AND SHARES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 102, 24 January 1940, Page 12

STOCKS AND SHARES

Wellington Market Quiet LITTLE INTEREST SHOWN Business was extremely quiet on ’he Wellington Stock Exchange yesterday and a small turnover was: recorded. Less interest was shown in Government stocks but quoted prices were fully firm. A parcel of 4 per cent, stock, 1940-43, sold at £lOl/5/-. Banks were quietly steady. Financials and gas were dull. Insurance shares held firm and buyers advanced to DO/- for standards. The inquiry for industrial and trading issues was slack, but quotations showed little or no change.

WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Yesterday’s Quotations The latest buying and selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exchange were as follows:—

Unofficial List Buyers. Sellers. £ s d. Ai ?•. d. Frozen Products .... 030 050 ,J. J. Niven 0 9 6 ~ Selfridges (A/asia.), Ltd 0 12 0 - Scoullar and Co 0 7 0 — North Kalgurli Gold Mines North Kalgurli (1912), Ltd., reports that during the month of December, 11,129 net tons was treated, 8865 tons from stoping and 2264 tons from developmetif. Revenue from ore treated, including’ estimated gold premium, was £36,638. Expenditure: Mining and treatment (including cost of excess orc broken in stopes during the month), £14.915. Development, £4892. Diamond drilling, £127. Surface equipment, £ll9, and special expenditure surface equipment Croesus Proprietary lease, £4793. Development for the month 1114 feet. London Stock Exchange Active (British Official Wireless.i LONDON, January 22. Following a big accumulation ot buying orders over tile weekend, a sharp rise occurred in all British Government stocks on the Stock Exchange. They were led by the 3>J per cent, war loan, which, after opening nt £97/12/6, rose to £9B/2/6. The industrial market responded to the gilt-edged rise, though business was on a small scale.

N.Z. GOVT. LOA? <s. Buyers. Sellers. £ s d. £ s d. 3 p.c. Stock. 15/7/193941 AS 12 6 ■ ■ 3} p.c. ditto, 15/11/ 1938-41 99 15 1) 100 1( 0 4 p.c. ditto, 15/3/194043 101 I 9 — Ditto, 15/2/1943-46 . 100 17 6 — Ditto, 15/5/1949-52 . 99 1' 0 —— Ditto, 15/6/1952-55 . 100 0 0 —— Ditto, 31/5/1954-58 . — 3} p.c. Bonds, 15/11/ 101 5 0 193S-41 99 15 0 — 4 p.c. ditto,- 15/6/1952100 15 0 OTHER DEBENTURES. Amalg. Brick (Wgtn.). 6 p.c., 31/3/44 ... 98 12 6 — BANKS. Comrcl. of Aust., ord. — Eng., Scot, and Aust. — cO 16 4 5 0 0 National of N.Z 2 2 National of Australasia, 0 2 2 9 £10 paid 13 5 0 New South Wales .... — 30 16 0 New Zealand 2 0 y 2 0 11 Ditto. D. long term 1 6 3 Union of Aust 8 2 6 — FINANCIAL. Abraham and Williams — 0 9 6 Ditto, perp. deb. stk. — 0 IS 0 General Finance — 0 16 0 Newton King. pref. .. — 0 7 0 N.Z. Guarantee Corp. 0 3 N.Z. Invest., Mort, and 9 0 4 0 0 9 6 N.Z. Loan and Mere., ord. stock 2*5 0 0 Wgtn. Invest., T. & A. — • 0 9 6 Wgtn. Trust, Loan ... — c4 18 6 GAS. cO 17 3 Ditto, contrib — c0 12 3 Feilding 0 2 o «—. Wellington, pref 1 1 0 — INSURANCE. National of N.Z — 0 19 3 New Zealand — c3 2 tl Standard 3 0 0 MEAT PRESERVING. Gear Meat — 0 14 8 Wellington Meat Exp., pref — 1 0 6 TRANSPORT. P. and O. defd. stock 1 5 Kelburne Tramway, 6 — pref — 1 3 3 WOOLLEN. Bond’s Hosiery Mills 1 1 9 — Oamaru — 0 17 8 Wellington, pref 5 7 6 TIMBER. Kauri 1 1 9 Rotoiti 0 3 - ~ Taringam utu 0 12 9 Taupo” Totara, ord. .. — 0 5 3 BREWERIES. 3 Dominion 1 12 6 ..... N.Z. Breweries 1 17 1 1 17 5 6 . -- MISCELLANEOUS Anthony Hordern ... — 0 16 0 British Tobacco 2 13 0 — Broken Hill Pty 2 14 Claude Neon Lights 6 2 15 (N.Z.) 0 18 Colonial Sugar — 9 57 5 0 Consol. Brick & Pipe — Dental & Medical Sup0 9 3 ply 0 11 0 — Dominion Fertilizer 1 6 0 —— Donaghy’s Rope .... 2 8 0 — D.I.C., ord 0 12 0 Dunlop Perdriau .... 1 1 7 1 1 0 Electrolytic Zinc, ord. x3 6 0 —- Ditto, pref x3 8 0 3 10 0 G J. Coles — x4 5 6 ■\facduffs, ord — 0 4 Ditto, pref — 0 11 6 McKenzie's 1 19 6 Moturoa Oil — 0 1 3 Ditto, pref — 0 4 3 National Electric .... — 0 16 N Z Drug 3 16 6 N.Z. Farufers’ Fertilizer 9 17 6 — 6 N.Z. Newspapers .... 1 8 N.Z. Paper Mills .... 1 S Taranaki Oilfields ... 05 Taranaki Oil Develop3 0 2 3 6 Wilsons (N.Z.) Cement 0 19 0 Woolworths Ltd., ord. 1 5 3 1 5 6 Wooiworths (N.Z.), ord. 0 17 1 • 6 Victoria Laundry .... — 1 0 Ditto, contrib — 0 15 (j Hume Steel, pref. ... — 1 3 6 Northern Roller Mills — 0 19 6 MINING. 74 .— Australian Mining. Broken Hill South .. 1 14 6 1 14 1 Mount Morgan 0 9 a Wellington Alluvials . 0 4 (j —— 3 ■ OVERSEAS LISTINGS. Wooiworths Holdings (South Africa) ... 0 15 8 0 16 0 c Cum dividend, x Ex dividend.