STOCK EXCHANGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22421, 18 May 1936, Page 5

STOCK EXCHANGES

SATURDAY'S SALES RETURN ON INVESTMENTS Following is a list of Saturday's transactions on the New Zealand Stork Kxohanges and the yield at the quoted price. The exchange premium on dividends payable in sterling is included. The yield on 4 per cent Government loans includes Redemption, and on 34 per cent loans is for interest alone, covering only the tax-free period.

Unofficial list Wool worths (Sydney'. £9 15s. CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE E., S. unci A. Bank (odd lot) . . . . 6 3 G 8 0 0 Bnnk N.S.W 33 2 6 3 0 4 Broken Hill Pty. .. 3 4 0 318 1 Con. Brick (2) . . 0 9 9 Dunlop - Perdriau (2) 0 111 4 G. J. Coles . . 317 3 3 4 9 Wilsons Cement 2 5 0 *3 6 5 Unofficial list: Selfridges (Australasia), 19s 9d : Woolworths (Sydney). £9 15s. £9 13s. £9 14s. DUNEDIN EXCHANGE Westport Coal 1 2 9 4 7 11 N.Z. Breweries 2 13 3 2 16 4 Dunedin-Kaik. Trams 2 4 0 410 11 Unofficial list; "Woolworths (Sydney), £'9 15s. *Based on interim dividend at rate pec cnnum. UNOFFICIAL LIST Quotations on the unofficial list of the Auckland Stock Exchange are: — Buyers Sellers £ad £ b d Selfridges (Aus.), new issue . . .. Woolworthu (Syd., ord.) 9 6 0 10 0 0 THE MINING MARKET SALES AT LATE RATES JUNCTIONS IN BETTER DEMAND In the mining market on the Auckland Stock Exchange on Saturday, sales were reported in Golden Crowns and Mount Lyslls at current prices. Offers for Waihi Junctions were raised by 2d to 3s 9d, hut no business resulted. Closing quotations were: — Buyers Sellers £Bd £ s d

SATURDAY'S BUSINESS Following is a list of Saturday's transactions in mining shares on New Zealand Stock Exchanges:— AUCKLAND EXCHANGE Sale L'rice Kiseor Yield f g d Fall £ s d Mt. Lyell .. 1 4 li *4 211 Also: Golden Crown, 9s Gd. CHRfSTCHURCH EXCHANGE Sale Price Yield £sd £ s d Mount Lyell .. .. 1 4 5 *4 2 0 Also: Mount Morgan, 14s 9d. •Based on interim dividend at rate per annum.

' OAMARU WOOLLEN INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARED Oamaru Worsted and YVoolJen .Mills, Limited, has declared an interim dividend of 2i per cent, payable on June 15. The company was formed last year to take over the Oamaru Woollen Factory Company, Limited. A dividend of 4 per cent was paid out of capital profits in December, 1935. GOLD AND SILVER QUOTATIONS IN LONDON (Received May 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 16 Fine gold is quoted to-day at £7 0s 3d an ounce, compared with £7 0s 2d yesterday and £7 0s 3d on Thursday. Silver was quoted yesterday at 20Jd an ounce spot and forward, compared with 20 9-16 d and 20£ d on Thursday. The quotation for silver at per fine ounce yesterday was 22Jd, compared with 22' 3-16 d on Thursday. PRICES OF METALS A FIRMER TENDENCY (Received May 17. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 16 Following were yesterday's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of May 14: — May 15 May 14 Per ton Per ton £sd £ s d Copper, start., . 36 16 10} 30 14 45 Copper, stan 3 mos. Copper, electrolytic ..4100 10 15 0 to to 41 5 0 41 5 0 Copper, elect., wire bars 41 5 0 41 5 0 Lend. soft, spot . . 15 10 0 15 8 9 Lead. soft, forward .. 15 11 3 15 11 3 Spelter, spoi ..14 16 3 14 10 0 Spelter, forward 15 0 0 14 15 0 Tin ftnn.. spot . . 205 8 9 204 15 0 Tin stan., 3 mos. 199 8 9 198 12 6

Quotations for other metals, with last week's prices in parentheses, are; —pj<r iron: Home trade, £3 10s (£3 10s); export, £3 10s (£3 10s). Antimony: British, £67 (£70); foreign, (£46 10s). Molybdenite, £1 16s 6rl (£1 16s 6d) a unit. Wolfram, £1 13s 3d (£1 13s 9d) a unit. —Not quoted. BRITISH TREASURY BILLS (Received May 17, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, May 10 The total amount applied for this week in tenders for £45.000,000 worth of Treasury hills was £75.580,000. The average rat« per cent for bills at three months was 10s 5.98 d, against 10s 5.91 d a week ago.

AUCKLAND EXCHANGE Sale Price Rise or 1'ield £ s <1 Fall i 8 d Bank N.Z. . . 2 5 3 -3d 4 8 5 N.Z. Insurance 3 0 0 -Gd 3 6 8 W % ton. Wool. . C. 5 0 — 4 0 0 Ditto (pref.) 0 5 0 ... 4 0 0 Don Brew. . 13 0 — — N.Z. Brew. . 2 13 1 — 2 10 0 Dunlop-Perd. 0 10 3 — — Hume Pipe . . 0 17 2 -Id *5 10 0 Unofficial List.--Woolwortlia (Syd.), f9 10a. WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Sale Price Yield i' s d £ s d Stock. 15/3/39-43 35 102 15 0 3 8 G Ditto . . 102 5 0 3 8 10 Com. Bunk Sydney 20 5 0 *3 14 1 Wgtn. Woollen G 5 0 4 0 0 Ditto (pref.) 6 5 9 3 19 6 N.Z. Breweries 2 13 3 2 16 4 Staples Brewery 1 14 15 2 18 7 Broken Hill Pty. 3 3 3 3 19 1 Burns-Philp . . 3 10 9 2 16 6 Dunlop-Perdriau . 0 16 5 — G. J. Coles 3 15 fi 3 6 3 Wilsons Cement 2 4 9 *3 7 0

Alexander (153 paid) _ 0 1G 0 Big River 0 2 0 0 2 2 Blackwater 1 9 3 1 11 6 Consolidated Goldfieldj 0 13 6 0 17 0 Gillespie's Beach 0 1 1 0 1 4 Golconda J3oldings — 0 1 5 Golden Crown 0 9 5 0 9 9 Ditto (con.) .. 0 9 0 0 9 9 Golden Da'vn •. 0 2 9 0 3 3 King Solorron 0 2 4 0 2 9 Komata Reefs ft 5 0 0 6 0 Maori Gulls' 0 0 10* 0 1 0 Martha .. . . 1 0 1 1 0 6 Mataki Gold Dredging — 0 1 10 Mataki Junction 0 3 6 — Mossy Creel: 0 1 1 — Okarito 0 3 0 — Skippers — 0 0 3 Talisman Dubbo 0 11 0 0 11 6 Waihi Grand .Tunc. 0 3 9 0 4 0 Waitahu 0 2 0 — Waipapa B;ach — 0 1 3 Australia and FijiMount Lyell 1 3 9 — Mount Morgan 0 14 S 0 15 0