FINANCIAL

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 5

FINANCIAL

WELLINGTON STOCW EXCHANGE. YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS AND PRICES Sales of 5 per cent. P.O. Bonds at £‘97 15s, and Wellington Harbour Board debentures at £9B 10s,- were reported al tho afternoon call yesterday, and a isale of Howard Smith sham, at £2 13s 3d was made on ’Change’: 4 here was good inquiry for the 4i per cent, stocks and bonds, with bids of £9O JOs. for the 5 per cent P.O. Bonds (1927), buyers offered £97, and for the 5> per cents. (L 933) £IOO 10s was hid. There were buyers of Wellington Harbour Board debentures at £9S, and sellers of Devonport Borough debentures at £lO3. There was a good demand for hank shares, with buyers of Bank />f Australasia at £l3 3s 6d. cum dividend, National Bank at £0 10s Gd, Bank of New South Wales at £39 17s Od, and Bank of New Zealand at £2 lls 9d, and Union Bank at £l4 7s. New Zealand Insurance shares had another small advance, and were in demand yesterday at 30s, and there were buyers of South British Insurance at 40s. New Zealand Refrigerating shares, 20s paid, were sought after at 20s 3d, and Huddart Parker ordinary shares at 41s Od. Westport coal share's were steady at 38s, There were buyers of Kauri Timber shares at £l 8s lOd, Ley land O’Brien Timber at 40s, Rptoiti Timber at 23s 3d, Taringamutu Totara at 33s Gd, and National Timber at 22s Od.