PRICE AND RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 10

PRICE AND RETURN

Latest sales reported and made on the Stock Exchanges of 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, p.a. £ s. d. £ s. d.

Wellington. Inscr. Stock, 3% p.c, 15/11/38-41 ......a. 98 15 0 4.17 3 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/3/40-43 a. 97 2 6 4 13 6 Inscr. Stock. 4 p.c. 15/2/43-46 -.a. 97 17 6 4 6 10 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/4/46-49 a. 98 5 0 4 7 6 Mort's Dock 0 16 6 7 55 Wilson's Cement ... 0 16 6 ■4 10 10 Auckland. Inscr. Stock. 4 p.c, 30/11/48 a. 99 7 6 4 3 8 IS; .Z. Insurance 2 13 6 3 14 9 Bartholomew Timber 0 15 0 8 0 0 Dominion Breweries 19 3 7 17 2 N.Z. Breweries .... 1 11 0 5 9 8 A.C. Industries, rights 0 4 2 — British Tobacco 2 59 475 Broken Hill Pty 3 11 0 3 10 5 N.Z. Refrig. (10s pd.) 0 8 2 6 14 8 N.Z. Drug 3 80 4 14 1 Woolworths Properties" 1 2 6 5 6 8 Christchiirch. N.Z. Breweries 1 11 0 5 9 8 British Tobacco ... 2 5 9 4 7 4 Broken Hill Pty 3 11 0 3 10 5 Mount Lyell 1 10 9 4 17 6 Austral. N.Z. Gold ..123 — Kawang Tin 090 — Dunedin. Inscr. Stock* 4 p.c, '15/9/40-43 a. 97 7 6 4 12 2 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c.,. 15/2/43-46 a. 98 0 0 4 6 5 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/11/48 99 5 0 440 Comm. Bank Aust. . 0 14 6 4 17 8 Wilson's Cement .... 0 16 6 4 10 10 Woolworths Properties 1 2 6 5 6 8 a. —Market price includes accrued interest but not brokerage.