COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 25170, 9 May 1944, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

SHARE MARKET. A number of sales were reported on 'Change this morning, 3 per cent. Slock, December. 1953-56, at- £IOO Ss, with the market closing at £IOO-£IOO 10s; JNational Insurance at 24s 6d, with a quotation ot 24s sd-24s 8d; Booth Macdonald 5 per cent, debentures at £IOO, with a buyer still offerin"- £100; and Wellington Woollen (pret.) at"£9 12s 6d. Quotations both ways were <*iven for Bank of New ' Zealand at 445-44 s 44s 3d. Commercial Bank at 18s 6d-18s 9d, Gear Meat at 25s 3d-26s 6d, Waitaki Freezing at £6 10s-£6 17s 6tl, Loan and Mercantile (ord.) at £6B-£7O, Macduff's (ord) at 15s Bd-16s McKenzies at 57s 6d-58s 6d ' Otaco Dailv Times ' at 50s-525. and 'Woolworths (ord.') at 18s-18s 6d. SALES ON 'CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—Morning call: Forest Product*, 7s; Bonds (1952-55), 4 per cent., £lO7 2s 6d; Stock (1946-49), 4 per cent., £lB2 7s 6d; (1954-58), 4 per cent., £IOB 10s. Noon call: National Bank of New Zealand, 555; New Zealand Insurance, 89s; Dominion Investment, 24s 3d; Waihi 'lnvestments, 5s sd; N.Z. Slock (August, 1946), 2£ per cent., £99 7s 6d. * Chris!church.—New Zealand Itofrig. (10s paid), 13s (2); Broken Hill Ply. (ex div.), 44s 5d ; ' Herald ' and ' Weekly Times,' 62s 6d. Reported:. Wool Bonds (1948), 20s 3d; Bank of New South* Wales (cum div., late yesterday), £37; National Insurance (ex div.), 24s 6d; New Zealand Kefrig. (10s paid, lale vcslerday), 13s; Westporl Coal (late yesterday), 255; Tooth's Brewery, 595.