SHARE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11

SHARE MARKET

WELLINGTON STOCK! EXCHANGE.

Midday Sales on 'Change:—4 p.c Govt. Stock .(1952), £98 15s (£500); 4 p.c. Govt. Stock (1949), £97 (£2300); Woolworths, Ltd. (ord.), 22s lOd (100, 4 sales); Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), 47s 6d (100); G. J. Coles, 84s (50), 84s (25, , odd lot). Unofficial List. —Woolworths Properties, 25s 9d (250), late sale. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) : AUCKLAND, This Day. Sales (morning call): —Westport- ; Stockton (pref.), 7s 2d. Unlisted: Modern Shoes (odd lot), 5s ! 3d. Sales (noon call):—Commercial Bank, : 16s Id; British Tobacco,1 50s; Mort's Dock, 15s; Taranaki Oil, 8s 7d; 1.C.1. 1 (pref.), 24s 6d; Martha Mine, lls lOd. ' 12s; Govt. Stock (15/2/1943-46), £98 10s; Henderson Transport Board (1/5/ 1967), £98. ' , f CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Sales:—Beath's, 14s; Grey River, 17s lOd, 17s lid. .Reported:—Southland Meat, 27s 6d; Westport-Stockton .Coal (pref.), 7s 2d; Colonial Sugar (late sale yesterday), £48 12s 6d.

Unlisted:—Ngahere, 22s 7d.

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)

(Received April 20, 2 p.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange include:—-Bonds, 3£ p.c. (1948), £96 2$ 6d; 3| p.c. (1951), £99; 4 p.c. (1947), £100 ss; Australian Consolidated Industries, 30s 6d; British Tobacco, 45s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 54s 9d; Colonial Sugar, £44 17s 6d; Howard Smith, 18s.

LONDON DISCOUNT RATES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.!.

(Received April 20, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, April 19.

Discount and sjiort loan rates on the London market, compared witj* those for last week, are as follows!**-

. Apr. 12. Apr. 19. _ ' . p.c. p.c. Day-to-day loans .... % % Tine trade bills (3 mos.) 3 to 3% 3 to 3$S Bank bills (3 mos.) .. ,IM> m Bank bills (6 mos.) -.2 2>4 Treasury bills (2 mos.) IV; 19-16 Treasury bills (3 mos.) 1% 19-16 The rates for fine trade bills on March 29 were § per cent, for three months and 1 1-8 per cent, for six months; and on April 5 the rate for Treasury bills 2 months was 7-8 pe* cent, and 3 months 1J per cent.