STOCKS AND SHARES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18277, 19 December 1922, Page 7

STOCKS AND SHARES.

| The tone of tho Aucklami sharemarket was again good yesterday, there being general inquiry for investment otocks. In Government securities ther© were buyers for Soldiers' Loan Bonds and Inscribed Stock at £99 10s, sellers in each instance quoting £100 ss. New Zealand Inscribed Stock, 1938 and 1939, had buyers at £96 7s 6d, no rollers quoting. In banks thero was inquiry for New Zealands at 545, sellers 565. Nationals wanted at £6 10s were quoted at £6 lis. Offers of £13 15s for P. and 0. Banking Corporation failed to elicit a response from sellers. Business was done in Union of Australia atl £13 10s ? lato buyers offering £13 Bs, sellers, £13 15s. In insurances New Zealands inquired for at 28s 3d were quoted! at 28s 6d. South British had buyers at 35s 9d, no sellers quoting. In shipping P. and 0. deferred stock quoted at £330 wero inquired for at £315. In woollens there was a salo of Kaiapois (10s paid) at 12s. In miscellaneous lines business was done in Hill and Plummers at 20s 9(1, and in Wilsons Cement at 21s 10d. In mining Moanataiaris sold at 3s 2d, other buyers offering 3s Id. sellers 3s 4d. There were sales of Waihis at 345, lato buyers offering 33s 9d, sellers 34s 3d. Waihi Grand Junctions inquired for at 10a 3d wero quoted at 10s 6d. The following sales took place:—Union Bank of Australia, £13 10s; Kaiapoi Woollen (10s paid), 12s; Hill and Plummer, 20s 3d; Wilsons Cement, 21s lOd; Moanataiari, 3s 2d; Waihi, 345.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Dividends— Lue. Bank of N.Z.—Half-yearly Now NZ. Loan and Merc.—Pref. (final), 'ih p.c; ord., 2 p.o. . Now Dovonport Ferry—Half-yearly, 7§ per cent, per annum . . .» Now Sulphide Corp.—Pref.. 2b ; ord.. 9d Lea 22 Calls— Caledonia Kuranui Moanataiari—twelfth (2d) . . . . . . . . Jan. 6. AucKland Gas—2s per snare and 23 proportion of premium .. Jan. 31

AUCKLAND STOCK EXCHANGE. CLOSING QUOTATIONS Sellers. Buyers. BANKS— £ a d £ s d Commercial ... 1 13 6 1 12 6 Ditto (pref.) ... — 6 10 0 National 6 11 0 6 10 0 New Soyth Wales ... 35 10 0 35 5 6 Now Zealand ... 2 16 0 2 14 0 P. and O. Banking... — 13 15 0 Union of Australia,... 13 15 0 13 8 0 INSURANCE— National _ 3 12 0 3 11 0 New Zealand ... —18 6 18 3 South British — 1 IB 9 Standard — 1 12 6 FINANCE— Dalcety and Co. ..< — 11 10 0 Goldsbrough, Mort .2 8 0 2 2 0 N.Z. and Hirer Plato 116 10 6 N.Z. Loan and Mero. — 75 0 0 COAL— Hikuranri — 0 12 6 Ditto (pref.) ... — 0 13 3 Taupiri .. 0 18 6 0 17 1Q Ditto (pref.) ... — 12 6 Waipa 0 17 8 0 16 0 GAS— Auckland ... 1 4 10 1 & S Ditto (con.) 14 8 T 3 0 Gisbomo ... 0 15 0 — SHIPPING— Dovonport Ferry ... — 14 6 Huddart-Parker ... 2 18 0 2 12 3 Northern Steamship 0 13 9 0 13 2 Ditto (con.) . ... — 0 6 0 P. ajid O. (dof. stock) 330 0 0 815 0 0 Union Stoam (pref.) ex div. — 0 19 0 TIMBER— Bartholomew 100 0 16 0 Kauri Timber ...17 6 — Loyland-O'Brien ... — 1 17 0 WOOLLEN— Kaiapoi ...... — X i 0 MISCELLANEOUS— Abraham and Williams (Pref.) — 4 0 0 A. J. Entrjcan and Co. 12 0 — Auckland Trams ... 116 110 Ditto (pref.) ... 0 19 3 0 18 9 Byoroft, Limited ... — 0 19 3 farmers' Co-op. Auc. 3 18 O — Ditto A (prof.) _ — 0 17 6 Ditto B (pref.) ~ — 0 15 6 Grey and Wenzies ... 0 10 6 0 7 6 Merediths (Samoa) 0 10 6 0 8 0 Milno juid Choyce „. — T 3 B Ditto (pref.) ... — 13 6 Ditto B (pref.) ... — 13 6 Ditto (dob. stock)... 14 0 13 6 Newton King (pref.) 0 17 9 0 15 9 N.Z. Express ... 0 16 6 — N.Z. Homo Builders ci div 0 14 0 — N.Z. Milk Products... — 110 N.Z. Refrig. (con.)... 0 1* 3 0 13 9 N. Auckland Farmers' Co-op. ... .., 0 8 0 — Ditto. A (pref.) ... — 0 6 6 Northern Boot ... — 110 Pareusa Kauri Oils . 0 8 6 0 5 6 Ditto (con.) ... 0 4 0 0 2 6 Phillipps and Impey. — 15 0 Takupuna Tram? ... — 0 15 0 Thames Theatre ... 0 18 6 0 15 6 Tonson Garlick ... — 0 10 0 Union Oil, Soap and Candlo — 19 0 Wilsons N.Z. Cement 13 0 1 1 11 MINING— Moanataiari ... ... 0 3 4 0 15 1 Waihi 1 14 3 1 13 9 Waihi Grand Juno.... 0 10 6 0 10 3 N.Z. GOVT. BONDS— War Loan, 1927, 5 . — 95 17 6 Soldiers' Loan. "33, 6i 100 5 0 99 10 0 N.Z. INSCRIBED STOCK— War Loan, 1927, 5 ... — 95 17 6 Ditto, 1929, 5 ... 96 0 0 Ditto, 193S„ 4i ... — 96 7 6 Ditto. 1939. 4} ... — 96 7 6 Soldiers' Loan, '33, 5* 100 5 0 99 10 0 DEBENTURES— Auck. Ons. 1928. 6* — 102 0 0 Auck. Harbour Bd., 5i 97 0 0 — City of Auckland, 1940, 51 — 94 10 0 Borouph of Eastbourne (Wellington) ... 106 0 0 — Macky, Logan ... — 89 0 0 Farmers' Union ... — 9*2 0 0