STOCKS AND SHARES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20473, 27 January 1930, Page 7

STOCKS AND SHARES.

THE AUCKLAND EXCHANGE. BANK SHARES DEPRESSED. • A weakening tendency in banking shares was again noticeable on the Auckland Stock Exchango at its Saturday morning call. Commercial Bank of Australia, which sold on Friday at £1 3s 3d, declinod further to chango hands at £1 2s od. Holders of Australian Bank of Commerce reduced theiij figure to 25s 6d without attracting buyers. Now South Wales were made available at £4O 15s, but buyers would not go beyond £39 10s. Quotations for New Zealands were unchanged, There was no demand for insurance shares, which wero offered at current rates. Quotations were wide for British Tobacco, which were inquired for at 40s 6d, and offered at 42s 9d. In mining Moanataiaris were again a centre of interest, and the Is 6d paid issue was sold at Friday's price of Is 6d. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Dividends— , ® uo, British Tobacco, pref., final, 6} Union°'Bank—interim, 12J* p.c. ' p,jl, , , •• •• •• •• fln •29 Auckland Gas—final, 4 p.c. .. E eb. 4 Commercial Bank of Australia interim, ord., 15 p.c. p.a.: pref., 4 p.c. p.a. . . .. U eb. 7 N.Z. Insurance—interim, lid a share . . • ■ • • - • 1' eb. 12 Queensland Nat. Bank—quart- ' erly, 2} p.c. . . ••, ; • Fcb - 13 Victoria Nyanza Sucar—final for last financial year, 5 p.c.., and interim for current year. jj pc . Feb. 25 Broken Hill South-quarterly, 2s Hi share •• •• •• •• o.i), 26 Wellington Gas—final, 4 p.c. . . F,eb. Electrolytic. Zinc—interim, ord. and pref., 12 p.c. p.a. .. Mar. 6 Call — , Moanataiari, 2s 2d paid—2d a share Feb. 6 Occidental —Id a share . . . . I 4 eb. 7 TRADE OF BRITAIN. LARGER VOLUME IN 1929. (Received January 26, p.m.) British Wiroless. RUGBY, Jan. 25. The total valuo of last year's overseas trade was lower than that of 1924, which was tho best year sinco tho post-war trade slump, but in tho actual volume of trade there was a marked improvement. The imports last year represent 10.9 per cent, increase in volume, as compared with those in 1924, and exports wero 8 per cent, greater in volume than in 1924. CANADIAN WHEAT CROP. EFFECT OF WORLD SURPLUS OTTAWA, Jan. 24. A messago from Calgary states that the report of the Alberta Co-operative Council to the United Farmers of Alberta says:—"Given tho immediate available world's acreage and two normal world crops, wo will face thr> world surplus, and with tho unorganised competition of tho other exporting countries, this can mean nothing else but a lower price level."The safeguarding of tho purchasing power of the wheat dollar, unless and until they can control the production of the major crops, is quoted'as a means of offsetting the fall in price. Co-operative buying on the chain store system is also suggested.

Buyers. Sellers. £ 8 d £ s d BANKS. Aus. of Commerce . . — 1 5 6 Bank Australasia .. — 12 2 6 Com. of Australia .12 6 1 3 0 Ditto (rights) .. 0 1 8 0 2 0 Eng.. Scot, and Aus. . — 7 0 0 National of N.Z. ' . . — 6 10 0 Nat. Australasia (con.) — 7 15 0 New South Wales . . 39 10 0 40 15 0 New Zealand . . 2 15 6 2 17 0 D pref., 203 pd. . . ' 1 5 Union of Australia . — 9 1 7 3 12 0 0 INSURANCE. National .. . . — 0 15 0 New Zealand .. — 2 4 9 Queensland . . .. — 2 16 6 South British , . v3 1 0 LOAN AND AGENCY. Dalgety and Co. . . — 12 5 0 Dom. Investment . . — 1 1' 0 Ditto (B shares) . . — 1 0 0 Farm. Co-op. Alio. — 4 1 0 Ditto (B prof.) . . 0 16 6 — Goldsbrough-Mort . 1 10 0 1 11 9 National Mortgage . . — 4 4 0 Newton King (pref.) 0 11 0 — N.A. Farm. Co-op. (old.) . . . . 0 2 0 — Ditto (B pref.) . . — 0 12 6 COAL. - Hikurangi .. . . 0 1 3 0 3 0 Ditto (pref.) . . 0 4 0 — Ditto (A pref.) . . 0 3 0 0 6 0 Pukemiro . . . . — 3 14 6 Renown (ord.)- . . — 0 17 0 Ditto (pre(.) . . — 0 3 6 Ditto (pref., new f.p.) — 0 3 2 Taupiri . . .. — ' 1 9 3 Ditto (pref.) . . 13 0 — Waipa .. .. — 0 14 0 Westport .. . . 1 10 0 — GAS. Auckland . . . . 14 7 1 5 2 Ditto (con.) . 0 18 2 — SHIPPING. Devonport Steam . . 12 3 1 3 6 Howard Smith .. — 1 0 6 Huddart-Parker . . — 2 0 6 Northern Steam . . — 0 14 6 Ditto (cen.) . • — 0 7 0 TIMBER Lbyland-O'B.den .. IS 0 — 6 National - • • • 0 8 3 n o Parker-Lamb . . — 0 17 6 BREWERIES. C. L. Innes and Co. . 1 1 0 — Ditto (pref.) . . 11 0 — 0 N.Z. Breweries . . — 4 8 J. Staples and Co. . — 2 16 0 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Glass . . 2 0 0 2 3 6 Aus. Iron (pref.) .. — 1 0 6 British Tobacco . . 2 0 6 2 2 9 Bycroft, Limited .. Ill 0 — Colonial Sugar .. — 45 0 0 Dominion Pictures . . 10 0 — Ditto (pref.) . . 10 0 — 9 Dunlop Perdriau Coy. — 1 1 Electro. Zinc (ord.) . — 1 11 9 Ditto (pref.) .. — Farmers' Trading- . . 0 8 1 12 6 5 0 8 9 Fuller's Pictures . . — 0 18 0 Hayward's Pictures . — 0 18 0 Hill and Plummer . — 1 2 6 Kempthorne-Prosser — 3 14 6 Milne and Choyco (deb. stock) _ .. — 1 8 0 Morris Hedstrora 0 (pref.) .. • • 0 18 — N.Z. Fertiliser ..12 0 1 2 9 N.Z.' Paper Mills . . — 1 1 0 Northern Boot . . 0 9 0 — 9 TJobinson Ice Cream — 1 5 Sanford. Ltd. . $• — 0 16 6 0 3( Sharland and Co. . . — 1 1 1 1 Ditto (pref.) . . — S. P. Maxwell •. 0 4 6 0 0 0 0 Taranaki Oilfields .. 0 4 0 0 5 2 1 2 5 2 0 Union Oil ■ • • • r> 0 Wliittome-Stcven3on — Wilsons N.Z. Cement — 9 MINING. Albumin, . . • • 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 5 Moanataiari . . . 0 2 0 2 Ditto (2s 4d pd.) . 0 1 3 6 0 1 9 Ditto (Is 6d pd.) . 0 1 0 1 0 5 7 Ohinemuri . . • • 0 4 0 fi Wftihi . ■ • • 0 4 0 13 B Waihi find. June. .. 0 1 1 0 1 5 Mount Lyell • • 1 14 6 1 15 6 T1NFIELDS. Kuala Kampar, Ltd. — 0 9 6 N.Z. GOVERNMENT BONDS. War Loan, 1038. 4i . — 0 99 15 0 Ditto. 1933. 55 . . 08 10 Ditto. 1936. 51- . . 98 10 0 — N.Z. INSCRIBED STOCK. War Loan. 1927-41, 51 — 0 OS 0 0 Ditto. 1933, 51 . . 98 10 100 0 0 Ditto, 1936. 51 . . 08 10 0 — DEBENTURES. Anck. Harb. Bd., 98 0 0 1937, 51 . . . . 95 0 0 Gisbornc Sheep. .. 96 0 0 0 Williamson's Film. Deb.- — 104 0