STOCK & SHARE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 10

STOCK & SHARE MARKET

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1940

Directors of National Electrical Co., Ltd.. will recommend a 6 per cent. lNet "profit of the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., Melbourne, for the year ended September 30 was £206,473, compared with £233,929. Taxes obsSed £41,748 against. £52,723 to the previous year. The dividend, including bonus, on ordinary shares is unchanged at 14 per cent.

Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. N.Z. Govt. Stocks— 3 dc 15/7/1939-41 .... 99 17 6 — U P.'cl 15/1/1953-57 ., 101 2 6 10113 0 4 dc 15/2/1943-46 .... 102 17 6 — 4 pi": 30/U/1948 104 0 0 4 p.c, 15/4/194S-43 .... 103 2 b 3 p.c.. 15/5/1944-52 .... 104 0 0 — 4 p.c, 15/6/1952-55 .... :06 0 0 - 4 p.c, 31/5/1954-58 .... 108 0 0 — N.Z. Govt. Bonds— 3 p.c, 15/7/1939-41 .... 99 17 6 ~ 3% pc. 15/1/1953-57 .. 101 2 6 — Hi: $fa::" » | | = Other Debentures — Araalg. Brick Wgton., 6 p.c, 31/3/1944 .. 102 5 0 — Banks— Comm. of Aust. (ord.) .. 0 14 11 — Eng., Scot., & Aust. ..* 4 0 0 — National of N.Z. „ — „ 1 19 <> New Zealand t 2 0 3 2 0 9 Financial— / National Mortgag/"A" . — • 1 18 0 National Mortgage "B" . -— 13 0 N.Z. Guarantee Corp. ..028 — Walrarapa Farmers (pref.) 0 4-6 — Wellington Invest. T. and A. • — U 9 •> Wellington Trust Loan . — 4 10 G Gas-— Wellington (ord.) 1 12 0 — Wellington (pref.) 12 0 — Insurance — National ot N.Z. f — 0 18 3 New Zealand 3 1 0 — South British 2 9 0 — Standard 2 18 0 ~ Meat PreservingGear Meat 0 14 0 0 14 6 >N.Z. Kefrig. (10s) 0 9 2 — Transport— i Huddart, Parker (ord.) . — 2 14 6 Union Steam (pref.) ... 16 6 — - WoollenBond's Hosiery Mills ... 190 1 10 0 Felt Textiles (ord.) ... 1 18 0 — Kaiapol (pref.) , 0 17 0 — Timaru — 0 16 0 Wellington (ord.) 6 12 6 — Wellington (pref.) 6 17 6 — Timber— Leyland-O'Brlen t 0 13 6 — Rotoiti — 0 4 0 Taringamutu t 0 12 9 — Taupo Totara (ord.) .. — 0 5 0 Taupo Totara (pref.) .... 0 10 5 — Breweries— Dominion 1 93 . — Swan t 14 6 — Queensland — 1 5 0 Miscellaneous — Aust. Consol. Industries 1 18 3 — Brit. Tobacco (Aust.) . — 2 9 9 Broken Hill Pty. ...t 2 5 0 2 5 3 Consol. Brick & Pipe .. —. 0 7 9 David Jones 114 0 — Dunlop-Perdriau 10 0 — Electrolytic Zinc (8 p.c. cent, part pref.) .... — 2 17 3 Farmers' Trading — 10 0 G. J. Coles — 3 9 6 MacDuffs (ord.) 0 10 9 — MaeDuffs (pref.) 0 18 9 — McKenzie's 2 4 9 — National Electric • 0 17 9 — N.Z. Drug 3 15 0 —• N.Z. Newspapers Ill » — „ Taranakl Oil Fields .... 0 5 0 0 6 6 Wilson's (N.Z.) Cementt — « i? in Woolworths, Ltd. (ord.) — 0 17 10 Woolworths Properties (prefd. ord.) — 1 5 <* Mining— Big River 0 0 9 -~ Grey River — S n 4 Maori Gold — ° ° 4 Australian— Mount Lyell t — J ' ? Mount Morgan — " 10 3 Overseas Listings— Woolworths Holdings (South Africa) — 0 la 0 UNOFFICIAL LIST. Buyers. Sellers. £ a. d. £ s. d. Tolley and Son (ord.) (£1 fully paid) — - 0 0 BUSINESS TRANSACTED. First Call This Day.—No sales. ' Sales made after going to press yesterday:— £900, 3 per cent. Stock (1941), £100 2s 6d; 300 Commercial Bank, 15s; 60 Union Bank, £7 Is; 50 South British Insurance, £2 9s 6d. •Cum div. tBs dlv. ■ AUSTRALIAN SHARES FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, November 26. Share prices firmed and business expanded on 'Change today, investors having overcome the shock of the Federal Budget. Sales :— £ s. d. Commercial Bank of Sydney .. 19 18 0 Colonial Sugar .....< 48 10 0 Aust. Paper J" J Aust. Consol- Indust. lib 9 British Tobacco \ » » Cumberland Paper 7 X " Burns, Phllp South Sea 1 0 . G. J. Coles 3 9 0 Felt and Textiles 1 « ° Felt and Textiles,' con. 1 b 4 Winchcombe Carson } f » Broken Hill Pty \ •> « Dunlop-Perdriau *■ « Atkin and-Co K ■,( n Wm. Adams ° 15 ° AIELBOURNB, November 2G. £ s. d. Nat. Bant of Aust., £5 ...... 5 17 0 Comm. Bank of Syd 19 16 » Aust. Consol. Indust 1 « » Aust. Consol. Indust., con. 1 * Broken Hill South 1 \ ]] Loloma Mine ••• l " ll GOLD DREDGING RETURNS. Returns of gold dredging companies as received this weeb are as follows :— Hours. Oz Uwt. SS a.,.S r ::::::^v A» j» j ffi?fit" ::::::::::"" "S » Blackball Creek 12^ -\ « Mossy Creek f7<> shifts) 52 0 Golden Sands («-shifts) w u WaltkhS '::;..........- (36 shifts) 53 0 wS" Alluvials (N.S.W.) •• 481 1430 0 Gillespie's Beach !•>- -1 " Mossy Creek Company has declared the eighteenth dividend of Id per share, payable December 10. DOW JONES AVERAGES. iBy Telegrapu—Press Association— CooyrtKht.) NEW YORK, November 25. Dow Jones averages (1926 equals 100) :— 20 Ball- SU Shares roads Industrials. sold. November 20 . 29.18 132.22 .810,000 November 22 . 29.37 131.74 710.000 November 23 . 2938 131.47 240.01)0 November 25 . 29.25 131.96 520.000 Highest in 1939: Industrials, 151.22; lowest, 121.4. (By I'elegiapb l'ie»t .vssuelation i DUNEDIN, November 26. The Clutha return was 67 ounces for 119 hours and the Gillespie's return 21 ounces' for 132 hours (16,000 yards excavated).