WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 4

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS AND PRICES.

With few exceptions prices of shares were very firm on the Wellington Stock Exchange yesterday, particularly for Australian issues, several of which showed notable gains. G. J. Coles sold late on Saturday at £5 9s 9d and £5 10s, and advanced yesterday to buyers £5. 11s 6d, sellers £5 12s. Broken Hill Proprietary moved up again, sales being made at from 86s 3d to 88s 3d. a gain of 2s. At the beginning of last week they were traded at from 81s 3d to 84e 3d. The boom in the prices of metals produced a further substantial rise in Mount Lyell, which were actively traded at up to 545, an advance of 11s during the la9t four weeks. Electrolytic Zino preference had sales at 63s 3d. Breweries continued to harden, New Zealand selling at 60 3d, Tooths at 57s 6d, and Castleniaine Perkins at 25s 9d. Trading on the Wellington Stock Exchange yesterday was' very brisk, 33 parcels totalling 3900 shares being recorded as sold. YESTERDAY’S QUOTATIONS.

The latest buying and selling quotations recorded yesterday on the Wellington Stock Exehango were ae follow:

Buyers Sellers. N.Z. GOVT. LOANS— £ s. d. £ ft. d ii p.c. Insci. Stock, 3-1939-43 — 102 0 0 Ditto, 9-1939-43 — 102 0 0 Ditto, 11-1938-52 — 102 5 0 4 p.c. inscr. Stock. 2-1943-46 — 101 15 0 Ditto, 4-1946-49 — 103 15 0 Ditto, 6-1952-55 102 17 6 — 4 p.c. Bonds, 6-1952-55 102 17 6 — 5 p.c. Rural Bonis, 15-9-1947 101 10 0 102 10 0 DEBENTURES— Makerua Dge., 41 p.a, 1-8-45 — 101 0 0 Ditto, 1-8-53 — 101 0 0 Wgtn. City, 41 p.c., 1-2-42 — 102 5 0 Wgtn. Hospital, 4 p.o., 10-12-43 — 102 0 0 Tolaga H.B.. 41 p.c., 10-9-46 — 104 0 0 New Plymouth Gas, 6 p.c., 1-1-47 — 101 0 0 Amalg. Brick, Wgtn. — 104 0 0 BANKS— Comrcl. of Aust., ord. 0 19 2 0 19 7 Ditto, .pref 9 2 6 — Eng., Scot, and Aust. —- 6 9 6 National of N.Z 3 1 0 3 2 3 National of Australasia (£10) 15 10 0 — Ditto (£5) 7 12 0 — New South Wales ... — *36 12 6 New Zealand 2 2 1 — Ditto, D long term ... — 1 7 6 Union of Aust 10 16 6 11 2 6 FINANCIAL— Abraham and Williams, pref — 5 0 0 Equitable Bdg *0 10 10 — Farmers* Co-op. Auct. — 4 5 0 Coldsbrough, Mort and Co — 1 18 2 N.Z. Guarantee Corp. 0 5 2 0 5 6 N.Z. and River Plate 0 18 3 — Well. Invest., T. & A. 0 8 9 — Wgnt. Trust Loan ... 5 5 0 6 0 0 GAb— Auckland — 1 2 0 Christchurch ■ 1 8 0 — Gisborne — 0 10 0 Napier, eontrib 4 15 0 — Wellington, ord 1 17 0 1 18 6 Ditto, pref 1 4 0 — Feilding —' 0 8 0 INSURANCE— National of N.Z 0 18 0 0 18 5 New Zealand 3 1 0 3 1 9 South British — 4 19 3 Standard — *2 19 6 MEAT PRESERVING — Gear Meat — 0 17 4 N.Z. Refrigerating ... — fO 19 0 Ditto, 10s paid +0 8 4 0 8 9 Wgtn. Meat Ex., ord. 0 5 0 __ TRANSPURT— Union Steam, pref. ..16 5 1 7 6 p. and 0. defd. stock 1 18 9 Kelburn Tramway, pref 1 2 0 — WOuLLEN — Bonds Hosiery Mills — 0 19 9 Kaiapoi — 0 14 9. Mosgiel 9 10 0 — Oamnru — 1 0 9 Wellington, ord — 5 15 6 Ditto, pret 5 15 0 — Tirnaru — 1 0 3 COAL— Grey Valley — 0 8 9 Westport 1 4 0 Wcstport-Stockton, pref. — 0 3 9 TIMBER-Leyland-O’Brien ...... — 1 2 0 Naiiona! — 1/ 13 0 Taringamutu 0 14 6 — Taupo Totara, ord. .. — 0 9 6 Ditto, 16s pref — u 15 9 BREWERIES— N.Z. Breweries 3 0 0 3 0 6 Tooth anl Uo — 2 17 9 Tooheys — 1 17 2 Tui 2 14 6 — (Jastlemaine Perkins . 1 5 0 — MISCELLANEOUS— Anthony Hordern — 1 0 10 Aust. Glass 4 13 6 4 14 u British Tobacco — 2 13 0 Broken Hill Pty 4 8 0 4 8 6 Ditto, eontrib 3 16 0 — Colonial Sugar 42 17 6 43 5 0 Con. Brick and Pipe 0 10 3 0 10 6 Denhard, ord 0 4 6 — Ditto, pref — 1 1 0 D.I.O., prof — 1 4 6 Dunlop-Perdriau 0 19 2 0 19 6 Electrolytic Zinc, ord. *3 3 0 3 4 0 Ditto, pref *3 4 9 3 6 0 Farmers’ Trading 1 2 ’9 1 4 0 General Industries ... 1 0 4 G. J. Coles •••■ 5 11 6 512 0 Macduffs, pref.. 1 2 0 — Milburn Lime 2 2 6 — National Electric — 0 15 0 N.Z. Drug 3 15 9 — Procora Bread, ord. .. — 1 8 0 Sbarland and Co., ord. 0 19 6 Sliarland and Co., pref. 0 19 9 — Shillings Ltd — 1 0 0 Taranaki Oil 0 3 0 0 3 1 Wilsons (N.Z.) Cement ■ — 1 17 6 Woolworths N.Z., ord. 7 6 0 7 9 0 Woolworths Ltd., 2nd pref 1 7 0 — Ditto, 1st pref 1 18 0 — Hackshalls, Ltd 0 16 6 0 17 3 Morts Dock 0 14 3 — Sanford, Ltd 0 4 10 0 5 3 MINING — Argo 0 2 0 Big River — 0 1 4 Blackwatcr — 1) 111) Gillespie’s Beach *0 1 5 — King Solomon 0 0 3 0 0 6 Maori Gully — 0 0 7 Nemona 0 1 8 0 1 11 Waihi Investments .... 0 13 0 — Mount Lyell 2 14 6 — Mount Morgan 0 17 4 0 17 11 North Broken Hill .. *4 0 0 — Rawans Tin 0 12 '0 — *Cum dividend. +Ex dividend.