SHARE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 6

SHARE MARKET

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. ■ Sales made after going to press yesterday.— £620 V/-. per cent. Stock, 15/6/47-49, £98 ss; 50 Southland Frozen Meat, £2 14s; 150, £2 14s 6d; 150 N.Z. Breweries (cum), £2 3s lOd; 640 (3 sales) Woolworths, Limited, £1 3s 3d; 115 Broken Hill Pty., £2 6s; £5600 3 per cent. Stock, 15/&/55-58, £98 ss; 50 South British Insurance, £4 5s 6d; 200 Taupo Totara, 8s 6d; 100 Broken Hill Pty., £2 6s. Sales made today.—so National Bank of New Zealand, £2 19s; 100 Wellington Gas, £1 12s 3d; 50 South British Insurance, £4 5s 6d. P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. Morning call.—Bank of Australasia, £9 10s; National Bank of Australasia, £13; Bank ofNew Zealand (cum div), 47s lOd; Auckland Gas (F con.), 3s; Bruce Wool, 34s 6d; Forest Products, 6s 6d; Tar Oil, 9d; Broken Hill South, 2Ss 3d; Reid Bubber, 325; Stock, 3 per cent., December, 1953-56, £98 10s; Commercial Bank, 17s lOd. Noon call: Wilson's Cement, ISs' 7d; Emperor Mine, 14s;- Stock, 3 per cent., February, 1955-58, £98 2s Cd: 4 per cent., May,. 1949-52, £102 7s 6d; Auckland Gas (perp. deb.), £S7 15s. • CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Sales.—2% per cent. Stock, 1947-49, £98 2s lid- 3 per cent. Stock, 1952-55, £97 17s 6d; Wool Bonds, 1/2/4S, 20s 6d (2); -Wool Bonds, 1/2/49, 19s 7d (5) ; Bank of New Zealand (ex div), 475.3d, 47s 6d; Dalgety, £9 2s 6d; . G. J. Coles. 70s 9d; United Provisions, ISs; Wellington Alluvials, 3s lOd. MORRIS HEDSTROM DIVIDEND. The directors of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., re- , commend a final dividend of. 5% per. cent., making 10 per cent, for the year. . . DIVIDENDS DECLARED. . The directors of A.C.1., Ltd., ; ha-ve declared dividends of 4% per cent, on the preference shares for the half-year, and 3% per cent, on the ordinary shares. Both' dividends are payable on June 27. , .. ■:• The Taringamutu Totara Sawmills, Ltd., advise that an interim dividend of 2 per cent., free 'of social security charge and national: security tax, has ; been declared and is payable on June 29. i • ' . \ ' PRICES FOR POULTRY. : Townsend . and Paul report the .following prices for live poultry:—White Leghorns: Hens, best 4s 6d, 6s each, others 3s, 4s 6d; cockerels. Is 6d, Is 9d lb 1.w.; pullets, best 10s;; 18s each, others ss, 9s. Black Orpingtons; Hens; heavy 9s, 15s each, . light \ss, 8s; cockerels, . heavy Is Bd, 2s lb 1.w., light Is-6d, Is 8d lb r l.w. Rhode. Island Reds: Cockerels, Is 9d. 2s 2d lb l.w. Spring' chickens: -Rooster?, 4s 6d, 7s each. Ducks: Indian Runner,; youne 10s, 15s each, old 7s, 9s; Pekin, young: 13s. 18s. old Ss, 10s. Geese: 75,-10s. -.Turkeys :'<: Is 7d, 2s lb l.w. Dressed poultry:;-Boilers, heavy ss, 7s each, light, 35,, 4s; 6d; chickens, Is Bd, 2s 2d lb;: ducks, 7s, 12s each; geese, ■ os, 10s; turkeys, 15.;7d,-2e lbv .-- C: / ; ;V;- ; /