STOCKS AND SHARES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 5 December 1946, Page 6

STOCKS AND SHARES

QUOTATIONS ON ’CHANGE ]■ Dealings in stocks and shares recorded on { * New Zealand stock exchanges on Tuesday J were as follows, the number of shares in j each lot being shown:— * Wellington.—l2oo Inscribed Stock, 3 per - cent, 15/12/53-56, 1101 2s 6d; 1500 ditto, lull f as; £2OO ditto, 2$ per cent, 15/6/47-49, £IOO 7s 6d; £2OO ditto, 4 per cent, 15/6/52-55, £lO6 t. ss; 50 Union Bank of Australia, £l2; 12 * ditto, £l2 Is; 40 Bank of Australasia, £l2 12s f 6d; 12 Bank of New South Wales, £3B; 233 r. P. and O. deferred stock, cum div., £3 19s: * 100 Westport Coal, ex div., £1 10s 6d; 100 • Timaru Gas, 14s 9d; 100 N.Z. Breweries, £3; ; 240 A.C.1., ex div. (two sales), £2 ISs 3d; 200 Claude Neon Industries, £1 ISs 6d; 100 Rob- -i iuson's Ice Cream. £2 Is; 500 Woolworths [ (N.Z.), Ltd., ex div (two sales), £1 7s 6d; 250 ditto (Sydney), £1 8s 6d; 58 Electrolytic it Zinc. ord. (odd lot), £3 3s Gd; 100 Macduffs, >• Ltd., £1 10s; 250 ditto, pref., £1 7s'7ld. Auckland—.£3ooo Inscribed Stock. *3l per cent, 15/2/19-50, £99 17s 6d; £9OO ditto, 2} l per cent, 13/4/50-51, £9B 15s; £2400 ditto, 3 ! per cent. 15/3/53-56; £99 17s 6d; £950 ditto, 3 per cent, 15/11/57-60, £99 16s 3d; £845 7 ditto, 3f per cent, 15/9/57-60, £lO2 10s; 120 «• E.S. and A. Bank, £8 ; 50 Union Bank, £l2 2s “ 6d; 150 F.A.C., B jref., £1 8s; oUO Auckland - Gas. 7s Id; 2UU Howard Smith, £1 3s 9d; 50 Bruce Wool. £2 3s; 50 Felt and Textiles of i New Zealand, £3 5s 9d; 200 ditto, £3 7s; 500 ' Kaiapoi, £1 6s lud; 200 New Zealand Brew- ,f cries, £3; 250 Aluminium Utensils, prel.. £2 3s; 250 Booth Macdonald, 2s 9d; 50 British 1 'lobacco, ex div., £2 17s; 250 Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 8s 3d; 100 Bycroft, £3; 100 (>. J. 7 coles, £4 10s; 50 Henry Jones, £3 3s; 155 Forest Products, 4s I Oil; 200 ditto, ss: 451 ’ Northern Roller Mills, ord., £1 10s 9d; 100 *,.«j Robinson’s lee, £2 Is; 200 Wilson’s Cement, jfl lbs lOd ; 100 Woolworths (N.Z.), £1 Vs 111; - V 100 ditto, £1 Ts Ud; 100 ditto, pref., £2 3s Od; ? ■ 100 Woolwortns (Sydney), £1 ss 3d. Unlisted 4 1 sale: 5u Korina, pref., ISs 3d. 1 Christchurch.—l2lo Inscribed Stock, 2J per J cent. 1953, £9B; £1450 ditto, 3 per cent, 9 15/5/53-56. £100: £6OO ditto, 3 per cent, 1956- ' ■ 59, £J00; £360 ditto, 3 per cent, 1960-63, £IOO 2s Cd; 100 National Bank of New Zealand, cum div., £3 ss; 50 Bank of Australasia, £l2 . 12s Cd; 50 E.S. anil A. Bank, £8: 1105 New r Zealand Farmers’ Co-op., 10s paid, .V.i'’9d 3iv (three sales); 257 New Zealand Refriger-'’’ ntins, £1 paid, £1 12s 6d ; 100 ditto, Ills pi'i/dJSL 16s 6d; too New Zealand Breweries, £3 (two sales); 50 ditto, £3 (Is 3d; 250 Booth Macdonald. 2s (kl; 200 Claude Neon Industries, £1 18s (id; 100 Now Zealand Drug, £5 10s Od (two sales) ; 100 Woolworths (N.Z.), £1 7s, (id; 300 ditto, £1 7a 7d ; 300 Associated Gold Dredges * of New Zealand, 2s 6d.

Dunedin—£3ooo Inscribed Stock, 21 per cent, 1949-50, £99 17s Gd; 190 Commercial Bank, ord., £1 2s Gel; 75 Union Bank, £l2; 50 Standard Insurance, £5 7s 4d; 200 Westport Coal, £1 10s 7d; 300 Howard Smith, ord., £1 3s 9d; 100 Macduff's, pref., £1 7s 7ld Bate sale Monday) ; 100 McKenzies. £3 ss.

NATIONAL TOBACCO Net profit before taxation of £52.000 is reported by the National Tobacco Company, Limited, of Napier, for the year ended October •• 31. Taxation takes £32,000, and out of the balance of £20,000 it is proposed to pay an unchanged dividend of 7} per cent on preference and ordinary shares, free of income and security taxation. This will absorb £13.000 (which includes one month's dividend on the new share capital of £70,000). Stocks stand at the record figure of £203,000, and sundry debtors are £104.000. The report states that although the new issue of 100,000 shares of £1 was not fully subscribed (70,000 having been applied for), the additional capital, togethcr with £GO,OOO realised from the sale of (’• Government war loan stock, was ample tor j, present needs. DOMINION BREWERIES

Dominion Breweries, Limited, is paying a higher interim dividend of fii per rent on both preference and ordinary shares on December 13. For the year ended March 31, the dividend was 10 per cent, to which a peace bonus ot 2$ per rent was added. The rate of di ndend was reduced from 12 per cent to 8$ per, cent in 1941. and fell to 7 per cent in 1942.* Since then, it has been steadily increased.