FINANCE & COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 308, 23 September 1943, Page 4

FINANCE & COMMERCE

WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Yesterday’s Quotations

The latest buying and celling reeiii-iled yestei’iliiy mi the Mellin„tjn Slock Exchange were !lti J Oll0 "’ 5 Buyers. beliefs.

x, Ex dividend. Stock Exchange Sales Dealings in stocks aud shares recorded ou New Zealand’s Stock Exchanges yesterday were as follows, the number of shares iu each lot being shown in the case of Wellington:— WELLINGTON, No. of Salo Price. S h nr oh. & d*

*Late eaio Tuesday. AUCKLAND. I user. Stock. 24 per cent., 1948, £97/12/6; ditto, 3 per cent.. 15/12/53-5(1 (2), £9B/2/6: Bank of N.Z., £2/1/40, £2/J/9: Farmers’ Co-op. Aiict., £5 paid. .£4/16/6: Newton King, ord.,-2/-; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. 2 A pref., £2/18/6: N.Z. Insurance. £4/5/-: Northern Steam, 9/4: Dominion Breweries, £l/17/9; Aust. Consol. Industries. £2 JO/-: General Industries (2), £J/3/-: AlcKenzies Dept. Stores. £2/7/6; .Selfridges (A’asia). £il74- , 6; Wool worths (’Syd.), (2), 17/9; Mt. Lyell, £l/10/6. CIIKISTCIIUKCH. Bank of N.Z. (2), £2/1/9; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op., A pref. (2), £2/16/1*: Broken Hili Pty., £2/5/-; Dunlop Rubber, £l/4/-; Taranaki Oilfields, 4/5. DUNEIHN. Tnscr. -Stock, 3 per cent... 15/112/53-56. £9S 2/6; ditto, t. per rent.. 195-1-OS, £lO7/40/-; Nat. Bank of N.Z.. £2/10/-.; Wool worths (Syd.), 17/9. . London Stock Exchange

LONDON.-September 21. On the Stock Exchange quotations of bank shares and other corporation debentures and stocks compare with previous

N.Z. Newspapers Dividend Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND. September 22. An unchanged interim dividend of Sd. a share has.theen declared 'by New Zealand Newspapers, pa.vable on October 1. Boots Record Turnover Lord Trent, chairman. Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., informed shareholders that “though our sales are easily a record and show the largest increase we have ever recorded, prauticallv the whole of the profit on this increased business has gone in taxation.” The past year had ‘been an important one for the research department, as. in addition to the pooled research undertaken in conjunction with other members of the Therapeutic Research Corporation. they had done a great deal of work on medicinal, agricultural, and horticultural products. Stock And Share Indices

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£VK)O Inscr. Stock. 3 I 11 ''- cent., *1)8 ’o 0 1J/12/M-5U £41 00 ditto (-’) 08 6 200 X.Z. Insurance ... 4 0 200 Dunlop Rubber, ex (iiV. .. *1. 4 0 150 McKenzies Dept. Stores .. 7 0 300 Woolwortlis (Syd.) < ■x div. *0 17 9 200 ditto 0 17 9

quotations as follows Banks— Sent. 7. Sept. 21. £ s. d. 0 7 (1 u d. 6 E.'S. and ’A 5 3 3 5 fl Union of Aust 5 2 5 2 0 N.S.W 20 10 0 20 10 0 National of N.Z a ds 0 1 17 (j New Zealand 1. 10 0 1 10 0 British Tobacco 1 .12 0 .1 11 0 Goldstbrough Mort. .. 1 0 0 fl 0 0 Dalget.v •i. ;i7 3 V ,! ! P. and 0., def.1 14. 0 1 13 3 N.Z. Loan and Merc., ■1. -p.c.. deb 88 10 0 . 80 0 0 N.Z. Loan and Mere., ord 30 0 0 30 10 0

LONDON. September 21. 1942 (high) . Govt, see’s. 114.1 Homo rails. 61.6 Indus’ Gold* trials, mines. 118.0 158.1 1042 (low) .. 11.3.1 54.1 96.9 128.1 Sept. 9 .... 112.1 M.S i:;o.S 164.7 Sept. 10 ... Sept. 1.3 .... 112.1 112,1. 66.6 130.8 1.30.4 164 .a 16.3.9 Sept. 14 .... 112.1 6>>.U 129.9 162.:j Sept. 15 .... 112.1 66.0 129.9 Ktt.l Sept. 16 .... 112.1. (i(i,3 129 9 162.0 Sept. 20 .... 112.3 66.3 130.2 Ibo.S