SHARE MARKET

Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 6

SHARE MARKET

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND STOCK BUSINESS MARKED AT £IOO/10/Buyers continued to lend healthy support to the investment market tins morning, when the inquiry was spread throughout the list. Business was restricted to the loans market, where e transaction in £2,000 worth of Bank of New Zealand Stock, 1957-60, was marked at the vendor's price of £IOO 10s. Selected quotations are as follows • ■

SALES ON 'CHANGE: THISDAY. Diniedm.—iSales reported: 3 per. cent. Stock, 15/12/1953-56, £IOO 5s (£500,' iate Monday, and £4,000); 3 per cent. Stock, 15/11/1957-60, £IOO 10s (£2,000). Wellington.—South Otagc Freezing (odd lot), £6 7s (2); National Electric, 40s. Unofficial: New Zealand Fisheries (14s fully paid), 18s. Reported: Three per cent. Stock (Feb., 1955-58), £99 15s; 3 per cent. Stock (April, 1956-58), £99; Milne and Choyce (deb. stock), 36s 6d; New Zealand Forest Products (ord.), 6s. Christchurch. —2£ per cent. War Loan (1953), £96 15s; New Zealand Guarantee, 4s sd; Ballin's Brewereis, 295; Broken Hill, 47s 9d; Coles, 80s (2); "Whitcomhe and Tombs, £B. Reported: J. D. Williams, 355. Auckland.—Morning sales: Union Bank, £9 2s 6d; South British Insurance, 80s; Broken Hill, 48s; Miine and Choyce, deb., 36s 6d; New Zealand Stock, 2J per cent. (April, 1949*51), £97 15s; 2J per cent. Stock (Feb., 1949-50), £9B 15s; 3 per cent. Stock (April, 1956-59), £99; Auckland Gas (perpetual deb.), £B9. Unlisted: Hellabys (ord.), 50s. Noon call: Commercial Bank of Sydney, £23; South British Insurance, 90s; Dominion Investment, 24s 6d; Dominion Breweries, 64s 6d; Wcolwortbs (N.Z.), 26s 4d; Stock, 2i per cent. (September, 1947), £99 10s; Stock, 3 per cent. (April, 1960-63), £99; Stock, 4 per cent. (May, 1954-58)", £lO7 ss.

Buyers. Sellers £ a. d. £ s. d Banking— N.S.W 36 2 6 37 0 0 Commercial 10 2 _ Comm. (pref.) ... 11 0 0 — E.S. and A.. ... 5 8 0 5 12 6 National N.Z. ... 2 17 3 Union 9 0 0 9 5 0 Insurance— National 1 7 6 _ South British 4 8 6 Standard + 60 — ShippingHoward Smith ... 1 6 10 _ P. and 0 3 2 0 — MeatCant, (ord.) 15 0 0 IS 0 0 Cant, (pref.) 8 10 0 N.Z. Refrig. (pd.) 1 13 0 — N.Z. Refrig. (cont.) 0 15 11 — Southland Frozen (ord.) 3 0 6 Southland Frozen (pref.) ... ... 3 16 — Agency— Dalgety .,, ... 9 7 6 _ Golds., Morfc 112 9 L. and M. (ord.) 76 10 0 80 0 0 Guar. Cor£. 0 4 4 0 4 9 Breweries— Ballin's 17 6 1 3 s New Zealand 210 0 Dominion 3 3 6 3 6 0 Dunedin 1 11 0 Tooth's , 3l 0 Coal— Kaitangata ... ... 1 1 0 _. Westport 15 0 1 6 s WoollenBruce (ord.) 1 19 6 2 1 0 Bruce (pref.) ... 17 3 Kaiapoi (ord.) ... 1 5 3 Mosgiel ... 15 0 0 — Miscellaneous— A. Hordern 12 6 _ A. Iron and Steel (pref.) ... ... 1 14 6 British Tobacco ... 2 15 6 * B.H.P 2 7 3 _ Brown, Ewing (ord.) 17 6 Brown, Ewing (pref.) 13 0 ■ — Colonial Sugar ... 59 10 0' Consol. Brick 0 9 10 0 10 6 Stcck Ex. Pty. ... 1 10 6 2 0 0 Felt, Tert., Aust. 2 19 0 3 1 0 Fletcher's (ord.) ... 1 15 3 G. J. Coles ... ... 3 19 6 Milburn Lime 113 9 115 1 McLeod Bros. 25 10 0 N.Z. Drug 5 9 0 _ N.Z. Newspapers 2 7 3 — N.Z. Paper Mills 2 0 0 — 'O.D.T.' — 214 6 Wilsons Cement ... 018 6 0 19 0 'Woolworths, N.Z. — 1 6 9 [Woolworths, Syd. 166 1 7 0 Mining— B. H. South 1 13 6 _ El. Zinc (pref.) ... 3 5 6 — El. Zinc (ord.) ... 3 5 0 — Mount Lyell 1 4 0 1 5 0 Mount Morgan ... 0 8 4 0 8 10 N.B. Hill 3 3 0