PRICE AND RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 14

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. £ c. d. £ s. d. Wellington. Govt. Bonds, 3% p.c, 15/11/38-41 a. 102 0 0 — Bank of N.Z 2 3 4 412 3 Auckland Gas 0 9 3 5 18 11 Broken Hill Pty. .. 210 0 — Electro. Zinc (pref.) 3 3 0 415 2 Wilson's Cement ... 019 3 317 11 Wbohvorths, Ltd. ... 10 3 4 6 5 Auckland. Govt. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/6/1952-55 a. 105 10 0 312 3 Mount Albert, '4% p.c., 1/7/48 a. 104 0 0 — Mount Eden, 4% p.c, 1/4/44-49 a. 102 0 0 — Bank of N.Z 2 3 6 411 11 .Auckland Gas, perp. Stock 101 0 0 — Auckland Gae, ord. shares 09 6 515 9 Farm. Auct., A pref. 116 413 0 Farm; Auct., B pref. 10 6 417 6 Renown Coal 012 6 613 4 Dom. Breweries 113 0 75 5 Broken Hill Pty. .. 210 3 — Claude Neon (N.Z.) ...116 — ■ Colonial Sugar 56 0 0 308 Consolid. Brick 0 9 4% 10 13 4 Farmers' Trading ... 1 0 IVz 615 9 Milne and Choyce, B pref. 1 2 6 6 4 5 Wilson's Cement .... 019 3 317 1.1 Woolworths Ltd 1.0 7 45 0 Mount* Morgan 011 1 — Christchurch. Woolworths, Ltd. ... 105 458 Mount Morgan 0 11 0 — Ounedin. Govt. Stock. 4 p.c, 15/4/46-49 103 5 0 310 I Govt. Stock. 4 p.c, 15/5/49-52 a. 105 15 0 310 3 Bank of N.Z., D mort. 1 9 VA 5 1 3 Kaitangata Coal .... 111 0 813 N.Z Breweries 1 16 10 4 12 3 Broken Hill Pty .... 210 6 - G. J. Coles 315 0 5 0 0 a.—Market price includes accrued interest but not brokerage.