YESTERDAY'S SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20673, 19 September 1930, Page 9

YESTERDAY'S SALES.

BUSINESS ON EXCHANGES. RETURN ON INVESTMENTS. Following is a list of yesterday's transactions on New Zealand Stock Exchanges. In tho second column is given tho return, based on thp last dividend, from investment nt tho quoted prico. In the case of Government and other redeemable securities the return includes redemption. The first column gives the figures at which tho sales wei'o made :

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. SALES MADE YESTERDAY. Sales on (ho Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday included tlio following Australian Bank of Commerce, 19s 6d, 19s, 19s 3d; Union Bank, £9 17s 6d; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l7 7s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £3O 10s, £3l; Bank of New Zealand, 555; Bank of Australasia, £ll 2s; Colonial Sugar, £3O 10s; Goldshrough Mort, 21s, 21s 3d, 21s l£d; British Tobacco, 32s 4Jd, 32s 3d; Australian Glass, 265, 25s lOd, 265, 25s 9d. LARGE BENGAL JUTE CROF. I'RICES DISASTROUSLY LOW. i DELHI, Sept. 17. Jute growers have produced a bumper crop, for which, owing to tho lack of world trade, they are receiving disastrously low prices. Every branch of tho ! economic life of Bengal is affected. FRENCH WHEAT CROP. SERIOUS DECLINE FEARED. PARIS, Sept. 17. A serious decline in the wheat yield is feared. Experts are of tho opinion that it may be necessary for France to import 35,000,000 quintals. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. CHICAGO. Sept. 17. Wheat.—September, 83 3-8 cents per bushel; December, 87 5-8 cents; March, 90 7-8 cents; May, 93 7-8 cents. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. (Received September 18. 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. IS. The following are to-day's quotations on the Pydney produce market: — Wheat.—Quiet. Bulked, 3s Id; bagged, 3s 2d. Flour. —£9 ss. Pollard and Bran.—£s 10s. Potatoes.—Tasmanian, £6 to £8; Victorian, £6 10s. Onions. —Victorian, Spanish, £5 10s. Oats.—White, 4s. Maize, 4s 3d. LONDON TALLOW SALES. LONDON, Sept. 18. At tho London tallow sales to day 810 casks wore offered and 463 were sold at late rates to 6d decline. Mutton: Fine, 31s; medium, 25s 6d. Beef: Fine, 395; medium, 25s 6d. Dalgely and Company, Limited, has received the following cablegram from its London house, dated September 17:— Tallow: A total of 810 casks was offered and 46 per cent. sold. Prices are 6d lower. Mutton, fine, 31s 6d: miked, good, 27s 6d; inferior, 255. Beef, fair to good, prices unchanged. Tho Bank of New Zealand has received the following advice from ils London office, under date of September 17: —Tallow : There is a fair demand. Good mutton, 29s to 29s 6d; good beef, 27s 6<l lo 28s; good mixed, 27s 6(1; gut, 22s to 25s 6d. DAIRY PRODUCE PRICES. > The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, lias received the following cablegram frbm its London house, dated September 17:—New Zealand butter: Choicest sailed, 130s; stored, 127s to 1295. The market is steady. Cheese: White. 755; coloured, 745. The market is quiet. PROPERTY SALES. C. F. Bennett, Limited, will offer at nuc tion nt their rooms, corner Queen and Short land Streels, nt noon to-day, a 0-roomed house on a freehold seel ion. Nt tho epmer of New North Road and Wolseley Street. Morninsside. Samuel Vaile and Sons, Limited, will offer at auction nt their rooms, 8.1. Queen Street, at. 12 p.m. to-day, houses in Tui Street. Point Chevalier; Riddell Road, St.. Ileliers Buy; Walnier Road, Point Chevalier; Cornwall Rond, L'apatoetoe; Rnwhiti Road, One Tree Ilill: coiner Albert and Puhinui Roads, Papatoetoe; Laurel Street, Mount Albert; Victoria Road, Avondale: Niger Street. Otahuliu; Wharf Road, Pnnmure: Great North Road, Grey Lynn; corner Newcastle Terrace and Jersey Avenue, Mount Albert: Corrolla Roail, Belmont. ' Messrs. Robert C. Carr and Son will offer at auction at (heir rooms, '2O. Swanson Street, at, noon to-day. a C-rooined house in Avcnliam Walk, ofT Valley Road, Mount Eden. . . William A. Home. Limited, will nfTer at auction i.t their rooms. Home's Building, corner Hiph Street and' V ulcan Lane, nt 12.30 P.m. to-day, freehold section with fronts Res to f'nmeron and Georco Streets, Onehunea; nlso at one o'clock si* sections rind a house at OD, Fourth Avenue, Kingflland.

AUCKLAND EXCHANGE. _ Return on Sale Price. Investment. Govt. Bonds, 193G, 5j 99 7 G X 1 s. d. 5 12 6 6 10 0 8 115 8 G 8 Ak. Hos. Bd., 1931, 6J 100 0 0 Com. Bunk A us. o 17 (i Ditto (Into Bale Wed.) 0 18 0 Bunk of N.Z. (lata sale Wed.) .. .. 2 IS 6 5 3 8 4 13 G 4 10 3 G 15 2 7 10 4 7 10 0 R 3 11 7 9 4 N.Z. Insurance 2 10 South British .. 2 17 ,'i Auckland Gas, con. .. 0 17 9 British Tobacco .. inn Ditto 1 12 o Colonial Sugar 30 10 0 Sharland and Co. .. 0 18 9 Waihi G.M (late salo Wed.) .. .. 0 1111 13 8 2 Tho following salo also took place Mount Lyoll, 20s 2d. No return is given on Mount Lyell shares owing to tho reduction in the rate of interim dividend and tho uncertainty of the final distribution. CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE. Tirnaru Bor., 1935, 5 90 2 (i 5 18 3 7 U 9 N.Z. Kef rig., 1935. GJ 95 0 0 Com Bank Aim. .. o 17 2' 8 14 9 Aus. Bank Com, .. 0 19 3 Bank of N.S.W. (2) 31 0 0 H 9 0 N.Z. Breweries .. 2 7 7 G G I G 1 1 United Building .. 0 10 0 British Tobacco (2) .. 1 12 0 7 10 0 Tho following sales nlso look. place:— Feilding Gas, 3s; Mount Lyell. 20s 2d: Mahakipawa. 5Sd (2); 6d (5); Stony Creek. 6d paid, 3d. WELLINGTON EXCHANGE. Wgtn. Har. Bd., '10 5J 98 10 0 5 14 0 Aus. Bank of Com. .. 0 19 9 7 19 Nat. Bk. A'asia, £5 nd. 6 0 0 8 G 8 5 3 3 0 5 0 Bunk of N.Z. .. 2 15 G N.Z. Breweries .. 2 8 0 DUNEDIN EXCHANGE. N.Z. Insurance 2 2 0 4 11 3