PRICE AND RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 9 July 1931, Page 12

PRICE AND RETURN

Sales reported and made on the Stock Exchanges of the Dominion yesterday, with the highest price and the approximate yield per cent, per annum to investors, based on the last annual dividends and bonuses, if' any, including redemption in the case of redeemable securities,-wero as follows:— ■ ; Highest Yield price. p.c, p.a. :., £ s.-d. £ .8. d. Wellington.----5% . p.c. Govt. Stock, (1936) ...'..:'..:-...- 99 5 0 514 1 Bank Australasia ft .... 915 0 613 4 Comm. Bank of Aust. 014 II 8 7 7 Bank of N.Z '.. 2 8-9 517 7 N.Z. Breweries ...... 115 0 7 210 Staples and Co. '.....- 112 9- 6 2 2 Okarito Oil 6 — Auckland. 4% . p.c. Govt. Bonds (1938) 98 0 0 417 3 4% p.c. Govt. Stock (1938), ~j.'.-ft;".'..: 9S" 0 0, 417 3 Bank Australasia ...'■ 912 0 615 a Union Bank ......... 710 0 613 4 Auckland Gas , 1 3 3 617 8 N.Z. Breweries ..... 114 9 7 311 Colonial Sugar ...... 35 3 0 7 110 Farmers' Trading .... 05. 6 11 12 9 King Solomon ....... 0 2 9 — Christchurch. Comm. Bank of Aust. 015 0 8 6 8 Bank of N.Z. 2 8 9 517 7 Union, Bank ......... 712 0 611 7 N.Z. Insurance* .... 22 0 _10 11 Goldsbrough, Mort. ... 1 0 7 417 2 N.Z. Breweries 114 11 7 3 2 Cornish Point Mining. 0 011 — -King Solomon II 2 9 — Mahakipawa 0 0,6%- — Okarito 0 11 2 — Golden Point (Is) .... 0 1 9% . —" Golden Point (10%' d) ft" 0 17% — ,-, Dunedin, . Union Bank ........ 710 0 613 4 Okarito ............ 011 1 — King Solomon f ft..... 0. 2 9% ?■. Invercargill. Comm. Bank of Aust.. 0 15 0 8 H 8 King Solomon -...- '0 28 — ft- *Cimi. . div. s BANK STOCKS AND SHARES. (Received 9th July, 11 a.m.) ■ ,' .' LONDON, Bth July. £ s. d. Bank of Australasia , 8 S 1% Bank of New South Wales .. 23 10 0 Union Bank of. Australia 5 12 0 National Bank New Zealand .. 4 2 G Bank of New Zealand, 4 per cent. Stock 95 10 0 Bank of New Zealand Shares 210 0 N.Z. Loan and Merc, Ist Mortgage 4 per cent. Debentures 63 15 0 N.Z. Loan and Merc, Ordinary Stock 40 0 0 FOREIGN EXCHANGES. . . LONDON, Sth July. Foreign rates of exchange, as on Sth July, compared with par rates, are:— Par. Bth July. Paris, francs to £; : 124.21 , 124.18% New York, dollars to ' £ .4.862-3 4.8621-32 Montreal, dollars -to £ 4.86 4.553-32 Brussels, belgas to •£ 35 34.86 Geneva, francs to £. 25.22% 25.10% Amsterdam, florinß to £ ■ 12.107 12.0894 Milan, lire to £ ... 02.40' 02.93% Berlin, reichmark to . £' .....:... 20.43 20.51 Stockholm, knr. to-£ 15.159 15.,14% Copenhagen, knr. to £." 18.159 18.16% Oslo, knr. to £ .. 18.159 ' 18.16% Vienna, schillings to £ 34.58% 34.62% Prague, knr. to £ '.; 164% 16414 Helsingfot's, marks to. . £ ft. 193.23 11)3 14 Madrid, pesatas to £ 25.22% 51.1 ] Lisbon, escudos to £ — 110 1-8 Athens, drachmae to £ ' 375 375 I Bucharest, lei to £ .. 813.6 817 Rio, pence to milreis 16 3% Buenos Aires, pence to dollar 47.62 35% Bombay, pence to rupee 18 17% Shanghai, pence to tael — 15% Hong Kong, pence to dollar — 12% Yokohama, pence to yen 24.5S 24 5-16 Silver, spot and forward, Is 1 3-8 d per ounce.