PRICE AND RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 12

PRICE AND RETURN

Latest sales reported and made on the Stock Exchanges if the Dominion, with the highest prices and approximate yields per cent, per annum to investors (all subject to appropriate taxes and exchanges where operative), based on last year's distributions and considering redemption and brokerage in the case of redeemable securities where dated, were as follows:—

Highest Yield, price, p.c, pa. £ s. cl. £ s. d. Wellington. iiiser. Stock, 4 p.c, 30/11/1948 .a. 99 12 6 4. 1 11 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 1943 a. 99 7 6 4 9 8 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 1946 ..a. 99 5. 0 4 7 6 Cambridge Elec Power Board, 4% p.c, 30/9/ 1950-60 a. 99 15 0 — Comm. Bank of Aust. 0 16 8 4 5 0 Bank of N.Z 1 19 11 5 0 3 Broken Hill Ptv 3 9 6 3 11 11 Consolidated Brick .. 0 8 6' 11 15 3 G. J. Coles 3 19 3 4 84 Woolworths, Ltd. .. 14 3 3 12 1 Auckland. Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 30/11/48 a. 99 12 6 4 111 New Plymouth Gas, 5 -."" n.c, 1/1/47 a. 94 0 0 — "■ Bank of New Zealand 2 0 0 5 0 0 N.Z. Insurance 2 12 6 3 16 4 Stli. British Insurance 2 3 9 3 4 9 Dominion Investment ,; (Auckland) 0 16 6 6 12 — Dominion Breweries . 1 13 9 5 17 0 Broken Hill Pty. .... 396 3 11 11 Colonial Sugar ...... 49 5 0 4 010 Consolidated Brick .. 0 8 7 11.13 . 0 . Farmers' Trading "... 0 18 3 7 13 5 M.K. Manufacturers .. 0 5 0 6 0 0 Taranaki Oil 0 6 6 — Woolworths, Ltd 14 3 3 12 1 Emperor 0 11 3 — Loloma 1 7 0 — ■ Smith Wylie 0 11 6 — Christchurch. Woolworths, Ltd 14 2 3 12 4 Broken Hill Pty 3 9 9 3 11 S ' Mount Morgan ...... 0 10 0 — Dunedin. Bank of New Zealand 2 0 0 5 0 0 Nat. Bank of N.Z. o.s. 2 6 6 4 16 9 Consol. Industries- ..220 — . Farmers' Trading ... 0 IS 3 7 13 5N.Z. Drug Co 3 9 0 4 12 9 Woolworths, Ltd. .... 143 3 12 1 . a . —Market price includes accrued interest but not brofp_erage. b.—Free of English income tax. s.—Paid in sterling.