LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 22878, 9 February 1938, Page 14

LATE COMMERCIAL

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 8. (Received February 9, at 1.5 p.m.) Bank of Australasia, £8 Is 3d; E.S. and A. Bank, 86s 6d; Union Bank of Australia, £6 17s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £25 2s 6d; National Bank of New Zealand, 425; Bank of New Zealand, 33s 6d; British Tobacco, 38s 6d; Goldsbrough, Mort, 24s 9d; Dalgety, 128 s 9d; P. and 0. Deferred, 21s 9d; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 4 per cent, debentures £93 10s, ordinary £35. PROPERTY SALE. Messrs Park, Reynolds Ltd. report having sold by auction to-day, on behalf of the Perpetual Trustees Agency Company as trustees in the estate of the late C. E. Jones, the freehold property, No. 7 Onslow street, St. Clair, containing 21 poles. The bidding commenced at £7OO and quickly reached £l,lOO, at which price it was purchased by Mr J. B. Welsh, as agent. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—First call: Auckland Gas (ex diV.), 20s 6d; Wilson’s Cement, 18s 6d; W, R. Carperter, 47s 2d; Waihi, 9s 7d; Auckland Harbour Board (1957), £lO5. Noon call: Dominion Investment, 19s 3d; Pukemiro, 18s 3d; Bycroft, 435; Woolworths (Sydney), 24s Bd. Wellington.—Morning call; Dunlop, £1 3s. Reported: 4 per cent, stock (1955), £lO3 17s 6d; New Zealand Refrigerating, 9s 3£d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), £2 8s 9d; British Tobacco, £2 9s 10|d. Noon call: Broken Hill, 60s 9d (3), 60s 6d; Woolworths Limited (ord.), 24s 8d (2); Dunlop, 235; Hackshalls Limited, 13s 8d; Broken Hill South, 33s 7-Jd, 33s 7d; Mount Morgan, 9s 4d;, Woolworths (New Zealand, ord.), 20s. Christchurch.—Commercial Bank of Australia (cum div., pref.), £9 15s; 300 Westport-Stockton Coal, 3s 3d; New Zealand Breweries, 465, 46s Id /8); Broken Hill Proprietary (con.), 335; G. J. Coles, 78s lid, 79s (3); Woolworths (New Zealand), 19s lid, 19s lOd (3); Woolworths Ltd (ord.), 24s 7d (2); Mount Morgan, 9s Id (5), 9s lid (4), 9s 2d (5), 9s lid (3); North Broken Hill, 51s (4). Reported: 'West-port-Stockton, 3s 4d, 3s sd; Mount Morgap, 9s 4d (late sale yesterday). METAL MARKET. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 8. (Received February 9, at 1 p.m.) Copper.—Standard, £3B 4s 4id per ton; forward, £3B 8s 9d. Electrolytic.—Spot, £42 10§; forward, £43. Wire bars, £43. Tin.—Spot, £l7B 17s 6d; forward, £l7B 13s 9d.

Lead.—Forward, £l4 19s 4Jd; spot, £ls 4s 4id. Spelter.—Spot, £l4 0s 7sd; forward, £l4 4s 4Jd. Silver.—Spot, 20 3-8 d an ounce; forward, 22d.