STOCKS AND SHARES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22950, 31 January 1938, Page 7

STOCKS AND SHARES

• AUCKLAND HOLIDAY ! TRADING IN THE SOUTH The Auckland Stock Exchange was closed on Saturday because of Anniversary Day. Business will bo resumed this morning. Trading was maintained fairly quietly on the three Southern exchanges. Following is the list of transactions 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 3} per cent loans is l'or interest alone, covering only the tax-free period. WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Sole Prico Yield £sd £ s d National Bk. X.Z. 211 3 411 O Bank Xew Zealand <D Mort.) CO . 1 10 O 5 O O Guarantee Corp. . (i 1 t> (! u 8 X.Z. Refrigerating O in :t 5 ljo Ditto ' .. o in O 5 12 10 X.Z. Breweries .. 2 o i) 3 14 5 Anthony Horilern ipref.) . .. 13 0 (i 10 5 Broken Hill Pty. .313 418 Maun Brothers (A pref.) .. 1 13 10 5 fi 4 Woolworths (X.Z.) 1 o <1 :< i:t 3 Ditto (pref) .. 1 IS O 4 11 !» Ditto (Sydney) . 1 5 5 2 !> 2 Ditto (•-') • • 15 t; •_> <j o CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE Bank Xew Zealand 2 3 (i 411 11 X.Z. Guar. Corp. O 4 <! <> 1» 8 Kauri Timber .. 1 2 (> (i li) 7 Broken Hill Pty. . :5 1 4 1 Dunlop-Perdriau . 13c sin 2 Ditto .. 1 3 5 5 10 (i <•;. J. 'C'olrs . . 4 3 (I 4 }) 10 Woolworths (N*:Z.) 1 (1 0 312 4 Ditto (Sydney) . 1 5 (5 2 0 0 DUNEDIN EXCHANGE Broken Bill Pt.v. . 3 10 4 10 Woolworths (N.Z.) 1 (> (i 313 3 Ditto .. 1 0 4 3 13 10 Also: Woolworths (Xew Zealand), 20s oil. THE MINING MARKET SATURDAY'S BUSINESS Following is a list of Saturday's transactions in mining shares on New Zealand Stock Exchanges:— CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE Sale Price Yield £sd £ s d Hount LyelJ .. 11l 3 11 4 0 Also: Broken Hill South (con.), 31s 3d. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE SATURDAY'S BUSINESS (Received January 30. 5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 20 Business on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day included: — £ s d Felt and Textiles .. >. 118 0 Toobey's Brewery ... .. 1 I'2 0 Associated News .. .. 12 ~'/ 2 Ditto (pref.) .. .. 14 3 Aust Iron and Steel (pref.) 1 7 4Va Broken Hill Proprietary .. 3 2 3 Colonial Susrar .. .. 4'S 17 <> Commonwealth Bonds.—l per cent, 1038, '*lol 15s; 1011, £ 103 <is 3d; lii'-H, ±'lo4 17s (id; 1053, £lO4 7s (id; 1057, XIO4 OS; 1050, JLIOS lOtit, £ 105 15s.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES [ FLUCTUATIONS IN LONDON British Wireless RUGBY, Jan. 20 The fallowing rates on foreign exchanges are current, compared with the tabled quotations on January 28 and par:— Jan. 20 Jan. 28 Par Montreal, dot. ~ 5.00"/,# 5.00%# 4.BGG JCcw York, dol. . 5.00"/, 8 5.0054# 4.W> Paris, , fr. .. 152"/,« 153% 105.00 Brussels, belga.. 20.01% 211.00 85.00 tleneva, fr. .. 21.02 ft 21.62 25.22 Amsterdam, gr. 8.00% 8.00 3 ,i 12.10 Milan, lire ~ 05% 05'/,„ 02.00 Berlin, r.m, .. 12.42% 12.42 20.43 Stockholm, kr... 10.40 10.40 18.150 Copenhagen, kr. 22.40 * 22.40 18.150 Oslo, kr. .. 10.! H) 10.00 18.150 Vienna, sch. . 20% 2liVa 34.585 Prague, kr. . . Helsingfors, mark 220% 22(1% 103.23 ■Madrid, pes. .. 551 55+ 25.221 Lisbon, escu. .. 113%# 113%# 110 .Athens, dr. 517% 547% 375.0Q 'Bucharest, lei... <577% 077% 813.0 Bio de Janeiro, m. 2 a %,(i* 2 a % a d t 5.800 d ■Montevideo, dol. 25%dt 25%dJ 51d Bombay, rupee.. 18% d 18% d 18d Shanghai, d 01... 14%#d 14% ed Hongkong, dol. 15d 15d Yokohama, " yen lid 14d 24.55 d Batavia, gr. .. 8.04% 8.0-1% 12.10 Belgrade, din... 210 210 270.31 .Warsaw, zloty.. 20.37 20.37 43.38 •(Nominal. iMarket rate. 'Sellers. The cost in New Zealand currency of tli-j pound sterling, and of the principal overseas unjts, on the latest quotations, is as follows: — Present Price Par s d sd London, pound .. 2-1 10.65 20 0.00 Australia, jxmnd .. 10 10.81 20 0.00 Fiji, pound .. 22 5.60 20 0.00 New York, dollar .. 4 11.00 4 1.31 'Montreal, dollar ' 4 11.01 4 1.31 Paris, franc .. 0 1.05 0 2.28 Berlin,, reichsmark .. 2 0.10 0 11.74 'Copenhagen, krone.. 1 1.33 1 1.22 Yokohama, yen .. 1 5.41 2 0.58 ? CUSTOMS EXCHANGE RATES Finally declared rates of exchange ruling at the .jlate of departure of .yessels named are shown in the following- table:— Fernmoor, Belgium, belga 20.40 Canadian Constructor, Canada, dollars 4.00 Canadian Constructor, America, dollars 5.00 Piako,- America, dollars .. .. -5.00 Piako, Canada, dollars . .. .. 5.00 S'angstad, America, dollars .. . • 'Niagara, Canada:, dollars .. .. 5.00 Niagara, 'America, dollars ... 5.00 "MINING SHARES IN LONDON LONDON", Jan. 2H On the mining market to-day Mount Lyells sold at 24s 4id; New Guineas at Is 4jd; and Bulolos at £5 10s. COTTON, RUBBER, COPRA, ETC. (Received January 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan, 29 . [(Quotations on January 22 in parentheses.) Cotton.—Spot, 4.82 d (1.93 d) a lb.; .February delivery, 4.69 d (4.79 d). Rubber.—Para. 7d <7d) a lb.; plantation and smoked 7:\d (7£d). Jute. February-March shipments, £lB 11a ild (£l9 January-February) a ton. Copra.—February-March shipments, South Sea, sun-dried, £l2 to London and Rotterdam (£l2 2s 6d JanuaryFebruary) a ton; South Sea, smoked, r £ll 17s Gd to Marseilles and Genoa (£12); plantation. Jiabaul. hot-air dried, £l3 to London and Rotterdam k (£l2 15s). - Linseed 0i1.—£29 15s (£.'lo 10s) a ton. Turpentine.— 32s (31s 3d) a cwt.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST • Dividend!— Duo G. J. C'oles—int., ord., 15 p.c. p.a. . . . . . . . . To-day ■ Nat. Tobacco—pref., 8 p.c.; ord., "i 12'-j p.c To-day British Tobacco—quarterly, pref., •> [>. c. p.a. . . . . To-day '?■ Smith and Smith—half-yearly, pref., 2'/, p.c. To-day N.Z. f.oan and Mercantile —ord., , 2Vi p.c. .. .. To-day ,v "Union Hank—final. Is a share, bonus,-2 p.c., less tax .. Feb. 2 Auckland Gas—final, 2 3 /, p.c. . . Feb. fi N.Z. Insurance—int., Is a sharo Feb. 0 Coin. Bank Aust. —int., pref., 4 vi p,c. p.a.; ord., 0 2-3 p.c. p.a. Feb. 11 ( *J)ominion Investment int., 5 p.c. p.a. .. .. .. Feb. 14 V\ T oolworths fSyd.)—lst pref., 5 P-c.; 2nd pref., !iY a p.c. .. Feb- 15 Elder. Smith —ord., int., 7 p.c. .. Mar. 1 <V —7 p.c. . . .. . . Mar. 1 Electrolytic Zinc—ord. and pref. int., 0 p.c Mar. 17 Callit—- ,, • Broken Hill Pty.—new, 5s a '■ ii share .. .. Mar. 31 Bijrns-Philp—new, 5s a share '• -iV (making 10s paid) .. .. April 1