LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 23744, 27 November 1940, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL

AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGES SYDNEY, November 26. Share prices firmed and business expanded on ’Change to-day, investors having overcome the shock from the Federal Budget. Morning Sales. —Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l9 18s; Associated News, Ms 3d; Australasian Paper, £1 11s 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 16s 9d; British Tobacco, £2 8s 9d; Cumberland Paper, £1 10s; Dunlop Perdriau, £1 0s Iji-d; Felt and Textiles, £1 18s 3d. Afternoon Sales. —Colonial Sugar, £4B 10s; Huddart, Parker, £2 13s 6d; Burns, Philp South Sea, £1 0s 7d; G. J. Coles, £3 19s; Felt Textiles, £1 18s 6d; Felt Textiles (cont.l, £1 6s 4d; Atkins, £1 2s; Adams, 15s; Winchcombe, Carson, £1 5s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 ss; Taranaki Oil, 6s. COMPANY NEWS PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London, has declared a final half-yearly dividend on preferred stock of 2] per cent., making 5 per cent, for tho year ended September 30, and on deferred stock 3 per cent., plus a bonus of 2£ per cent., making 7£ per cent, fer the year, both less British income tax. Last year the dividend on deferred stock was 5 per cent., plus a bonus of 1£ per cent., a total of G! s per cent. Principal subsidiaries of the P. and O. Company, which has a paid capital of £7,632,518, are: British India Steam, New Zealand Shipping, Union Steam Ship, Orient Steam Navigation, General Steam Navigation, and Hain Steamship. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 26. (Received November 27, at 12.5 p.m.) Dalgety 4 per cent, debs., £7O 10s; British Tobacco, 335; Goldsbrough, Mort, 17s 6d; Dalgety, 82s 6d; P. and O. Deferred, 21s 6d. NEW GUINEA GOLD SHARES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 26. (Received November 27, at 12.5 p.m.) New Guinea Gold shares are quoted at Is io;d. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY Auckland.—Morning call: Bank of New Zealand, 40s 3d; Farmers’ Trading, 19s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 45s 3d, 455; Woolworths (New Zealand), 15s Od; Stock (1940-43), £lOl ss; National Bank, 365; Dominion Breweries, 30s; M.K. Manufacturers, 6s; North Canterbury Electric Power Board (1949), £lO4 12s 6d. Noon call; National Bank, 365; New Zealand Insurance, 61s 9d; South British, 49s 6d (2); New Zealand banners’ Fertiliser, 225; Woolworths (Sydney). 17s 7cl. Christchurch.—Reported : New Zealand Breweries, 32s (2); Union Bank (late yesterday), £7 Is. . Wellington.—Reported : Union Bank, £7 Is.