FINAL DIVIDEND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 24 February 1941, Page 3

FINAL DIVIDEND

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Feb. 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. The directors of the Bank of Australasia have declared a final dividend of 4£ per cent, making a total of 8 per cent. ! OPOTIKI SHEEP FAIR Over 18,000 sheep were offered at a sheep fair held in Opotiki, making a record total for the two sheep fairs held this year. Quotations: —Two-tooth wethers, fat and forward, 22s to 27s fid; stores, 19s to 20sj smaller sorts, 17s to 18s; four and six-tooth wethers, 18s to 225; twotooth ewes, good sorts, 24s 6d to 27s fid; smaller, 21s to 265; culls, lfis 8d to 20s; four and six-tooth ewes, 24s to 27s fid; four-year ewes, 21s to 22s fid; five-year ewes, 18s to 20s fid; six-year-ewes, 11s to 17s; forward ewes and wethers, two-tooth, black-face, 18s;, cull ewes, 4s to 9s; woolly wether lambs, 14s to 16s fid; shorn, 11s 7d to 14s 2d; small sorts, 19s to 19s fid; smaller, 17s to 19s; culls, 10s to 13s fid. AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES SYDNEY, Feb. 21. The sharemarket to-day was subdued, investors marking time. Sales included: Bank of New South Wales. £26 6s; Commercial Banking. Sydney, 17s; Mercantile Mutual Insurance, 28s fid; United Insurance, £9 10s; Australian Gas, A, ex div„ £5 7s; Tooth’s Breweries, 51s fid; Tooheys, 29s 3d; Associated News, pref., lfis; Bonds ’ndustries, (24s Id; Colonial Sugar, £47; Dunlop Perdriau, 20s 4Jd; Gordon and Gotch, 40s; Kandos Cement, 335; Mori’s Dock, 18s 3d; W. Adams, 14s fid; Woolworths (Sydney), 17s 7d. Sales in Melbourne included: Metropolitan Gas, £l3; Broken Hill Proprietary. 39s fid; do., rights, 17s Id; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., 525. BOND’S HOSIERY DIVIDEND .Bond’s Hosiery Mills (N.Z.), Limited, Wellington, recommends a dividend of 10 per. cent, unchanged, for the year ended January 19.