COMMERCIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

SHARE MARKET WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. Wellington Stock Exchange.—Sales made after going to press yesterday :—£ 10,000 3 per cent, Stock, 15/12/53-56,: £97 7s 6d; £10,000 3 per cent. Stock, 15/2/05-5&, £98 17s 6d; 30 Union Bank, £8 10s; 100 Felt and Textiles, £2 17s; 150 Ballins Breweries (15s) (cum), 18s; 300 (2 sales) New Zealand Breweries, £2 4s 6d; £330 3 per cent. Stock, 15/12/53-56, £97 7s 6d; 100 National Bank of New Zealand (cum), £2 17s 9d: 200 Dental and Medical, £1 ss; 200 Frozen Products, 18s.< PA AUCKLAND, This Day. 'Sales: Morning call: Bank of New Zealand, 50s 9d; Union Bank, £8 9s; Auckland Gas (cont.), 2s- lid; X.D.V. Boxes, 12s; Mount Lyell, 27s 3d; Stock, 3 per cent, 1953-56, £97 15s. ' Noon call: Felt & Textiles, 50s 9d; Milne & Choyce, 32s 3d; Placer Development, 84s 9d. p.A. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Sales: Bank of New Zealand, 50s; Fletcher Holdings, 31s Id. Reported (lato yesterday) : Fletcher Holdings, 31s Id. ■ ® - p.A. DUNEDIN, This Day. Reported sales: Bank of New Zealand, 50s 9d; 3 per cent. Stock, 1952-55, £9S ss; Woolworths (Sydney), 23s 3d. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. (By' Telearaph—Press Association—Copyrloht.) P.A. LONDON, June 19. On the Stock Exchange today prices for corporation debentures and stocks compared with previous quotations as follows:— • ■June 5. June 19. £ s. d. £ s. d. Dalgety and Co., 4 p.c, 100 0 0 102 0 0 Dalgety and Co., shares 515 0 515 0 British Tobacco 1 17 0 1 16 0 Goldsbrough Mort .... 12 6 116 P. and O. def 2 1 9 ' 2 1 10% DIVIDENDS DECLARED. The directors of Felt and Textiles, Ltd., have declared a dividend on the 6 per cent, second preference shares for the half-year ended June 30, payment to be made on July 1. The Wellington, Trust, Loan, and Investment Co., Ltd., has declared an interim dividend at the rate of Is' 6d for each £5 paidup share in the capital of the company. It is payable on June 30. The Gear Meat Co., Ltd., advises that an interim dividend of 6d per share has been declared payable on June 29. PRICES FOR POULTRY. Townsendand Paul, Ltd., report the following prices for live poultry:—White Leghorns: Hens, best 4s 6d to 7s each, others 2s 6d to 4s each; cockerels, W.L. Is 6d to Is 9d per lb live weight; pullots, best 10s to 13s 6d each, others 4s to 7s each. Black Orpingtons: Hens, heavy 9a to 12s each t light 4s to 8s each; cockerels, heavy Is 9d to 2s per lb live weight, light Is 6d to is 8d lb live weight. Rhode Island Reds: Cockerels, Is 9d to 2s 2d per lb live weight. Roosters, 4s to 7s each. Ducks: Indian Runner, young 8s to 11s each,, old 5s to 7s each; Pekin, young 10s to 14s each, old 7s to 9s each. Geese, 7s to 10s each. Turkeys, Is lOd to 2s per lb live weight. Dressed poultry: Boilers, heavy 5s to 7s each, light 3s to 4s 6d each: chickens, Is 8d to 2s 2d per lb; ducks, 6s to 10s each; geese, 0s to 10s each: turkeys, 2s to 2s 2d per lb.