THE SHARE MARKET

Evening Star, Issue 19639, 19 August 1927, Page 1

THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. Dunking shares came in for fair qnc* lation this morning. A sale was re* ported in Dank of New at 58s 3d. flic market closing with a buyer at 5Ss and a seller at 58s 6d. Commercials were a little easier, with buyers at 27s 2<l and sellers at 27s Bd. P. and 0. Banking Corporations also eased, buyers offering £9 15s, with sailers at £lO TOs. Insurance shares remained about the same as yesterday. Nationals were wanted at 775, with sellers at Is above this price. New Zcalands were on offer at 40s 9d, the best buyer, however, offering 40s. Standards and South British were wanted at. 57s and 60s respectively, with no selling quotes in either- case. Auckland Amusement Parks were still firm, buyers offering 12s 6d, with sellers asking 13s Cd. There was a seller of the paid issue of New Zealand Refrigerating shares at 15s, while the contributing issue were on offer at 6s 7d. There wore no declared buyers in either case. The margin between buyers and sellers of ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ nan-owed considerably. buyers offering 71s, with sellers offering 75s this morning. In the mining section in future both Broken Hill South and North Broken Hill will appear on the lists. There were quotations for these shares this morning, buyers of the former offering 435, with no sellers, and sellers of the latter at 83s, no buyers quoting. Upper Nevises were still very firm, with buyers at 24s 7d and sellers at 25s 6d. Government stocks and bonds stood at much the same prices as before. Sale Reported.—Bank of New Zealand, 5Ss .‘ldQuotations as under:— BANKING. Bank of New South Wales—Sel £45 5/. Bank of New Zealand—Buy 58/, sel 58/6. Dank of New Zealand (D issue)—Buy 26/. Commercial Dank—Buy 2i/2, sel 27/8. E.S and A. Bank—Sel £8 2/. National Dank of New Zealand— Scl £6 16/. P. and O. Banking Corporation—BuyDa 15/, ssl £lO 10/. Union Dank of Australia—Buy £ls, scl £ls 2/. INSURANCE. National insurance Co.—Buy 77/, sel 78/. New Zealand Insurance Co. Buy 40/, sel 40/9. South British Insurance Co.—BuyStandard Insurance Co.—Buy 60/. SHIPPING, llnddart, Parker (ord.)—Sel 48/. Hiuklart, Parker (prof.)—Buy 20/9, scl 21 1'-’. . , P. and 0. Deterred Stock Buy £278. scl £285. U.S.S. Co. (pref.)—Sel 20/4. COAL. Taupiri Coal ford.)—Buy 23/3. Westport Coal Co.—Sel 33/9. Weslport-Stockton (ord.)—Buy 1/3, scl 1/9. LOAN AND AGENCY. Dalgcly and Co.—Sel £l4. Goldsb'rough, Mort (rights)—-Buy-8/9. National Mortgage—Sel 65/. N.Z. Loam and Mercantile (ord.) Buy £9O. Perpetual Trustees—Buy 61/. Trustees, Executors—Buy SS/. MEAT PRESERVING. N.Z. Refrigerating (paid)—Sol 15/. N.Z. Refrigerating (cent.) —Scl 6/7. Southland T'rozen Meat (orcl.) —Scl 31/6 (odd parcel). MISCELLANEOUS. Auckland Amusement Park, Ltd. (ord.) —Buy 12/6, scl 33/G. Auckland Amusement Park, Ltd, (pref.)—Huy 17/li. British Tobacco -Buy 52/6. D.i.C. ford.)—Bov 8/6 prera. D.I.C. (prof.)—Huy 20/9. Dominion Rubber—Sel 41/6. Kauri Timber—Buy 23/6. Dominion Investments —Buy 22/. Milburu Lime and Cement—Buy 2 6/9. Milburu Lime and Cement (new) — liny 3/3 prom, Mosgiel Woollen Co. —Buy £6 3/. National Electric—Sel 13/6. N.Z. Drug Co. (£2 paid)—Scl 64/3. N.Z Guarani co Corporation—Buy 9/. N.Z. Paper Mills- Sel 10/6. N.Z. Sugar of Milk—Sel *23/(5. ‘Otago Daily Times’—Buy 71/, scl Sinilli and Sinilh (pref.)—Sel 17/9. Taranaki Oil—Huy 8/. Wbilcombe ami Tombs-- Sel 7]/. Wil.-ui’s (N.Z.) Cement—Buy 31/, sel 35'. BREWERIES. Manning’s Brewery-- Buy 18/9. N.Z. Breweries, Ltd.—Buy 41/, scl 43.1. N.Z. Breweries Debentures Buy 23/6, sel 23/9. Staples’s Breworv—Buv 36/9. MINING. “ Kawarau—Buy 7d, sel lid. Waihi—Sol 20/. Waibi Grand Junction—Buy 1/3. Electrolytic Zinc (pref.)—Buy 31 /. Electrolytic Zinc (dcf. ord.)—Scl 32/3. Mount Lyell—Sel 28/. Molyncnx Electric—Buy 15/6. sel 11)/. Mount Isa—Sei 23/. Upper Nevis—Buy 24/7. sel 25/6. North Broken Hill—Scl 83/. Broken Hill South—Buy 43/6. WAR BONDS. (Bonds quoted arc £IOO Bonds.) 1930 4) per cent. Bonds—Buy £9T 10/. 1938 4.) peu-cent. Bonds—Buy £96 3/. 19.39 It per cent.. Bonds—Buy £96 tjj m 1933 5) per cent. S.S. Bonds—Buy £IOO 10/. 1938 4) per cent. Inscribed—Sel £96 15/. 193!) 4 t per cent. Inscribed—Scl £96 15/. 1927 5 per cent. P.O. Bonds—Buy £99 5/. 1927 5 per cent. P.O. InscribedBuy £99 5/. 192!) 5 per cent. P.O. Inscribed—Buy £9B 5/. 1927-11 51 per cent. Inscribed—Buy £9B. 1930 5t per cent. Bonds—Buy £IOO 10/. 14)30 .i) per cent. Inscribed— Sel £IOO 15/.