FINANCIAL

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 280, 9 July 1924, Page 5

FINANCIAL

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGIS

YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS PRICES.

- Sales of two parcels of-Bank of NcjW | Zealand shares each at £2 14s 9d., wore .reported at the afternoon call yesterday. There was a fj,:.iod general demand, with better inquiry, for GH-" -.. vernment stocks and bonds. For tho. ' 4.J per cents., buyers offered £97, for the 5 per cents. £9B, and for theoi - % pot\ cents. £10) 10s. Wolli»gtoti-" : [ Racing (Hub debentures were in. demand at £lo7*, and New Zealand Breweries 'debentures at 21s Gel. Wellington Gas Company's debentures., were ou .sale at £lO5 10s., and Devon-?. ','' port Borough debentures at .1T02: 10s. .Bank shares were very llrm,'"with buyers of Bank of Australasia shares at £l3 7s Cd., National Bank old issue, at £6 12s Gd cum, newv issue £0 9s Od; Bank of Noav South Wales shares at £-10 ">s, Blink; or ['" New Zealand nt £2 Ms Gd, and,;'■". Royal. Bank shares £1 paid at' £0 lis.. od. Union. .Bank shares were on sale at £ls Is . Gd. cum dividend, Goldsb rough Mort and shares were in demand tat £2 ui ■' Kqiii-tablo Building shares at £9 7s Oil and Wellington. Deposit at 9s. Gas shares: weep qtiiot, but there was a 1 demand for Auckland Gas shares fijHrS ■jKs od., and Wellington Gas preference shares at 10s Gd. Buyers offered £3 12s 0;1 for National Insurance, 20s cum dividend, for New Zealand IRofrigorating shares 20s paid, 42s JB4 [ for Gear Moat shares, and for Meat" Export shares, £3 12s Od. Paid 30*., 0 Huddart-Parker shares were firm,, afc! 42s G:l and 20s! 3d. for the respective .--, issues, and 20s 3d was offered for Union Steam preference. Kaiapoi. •Woollen ordinary shares, were steady at 14s. There were bids of 10s Od for Hikurangi Coal preference' shares 35s 0d for Westnort Conl shares, ntitt' 17s Sd for Waioa Coal shares. Timl>or shares were firm at late There were buyers of Burns Philip and Company's shares at 33sj3d. CoL onial Sugar shares at; £l2. Now Zea-v , land Express ordinary at 0s Od. Zealand Paper Mills at 22s Od, Ward '• and Company brewery shares at 40s Od, Wairaraoa Farmers' preference. \ sitUs, and Wihon's Cement, at 28s , / Gd. Lit