STOCK EXCHANGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23228, 23 December 1938, Page 7

STOCK EXCHANGES

YESTERDAY'S SALES RETURN ON INVESTMENTS Following is a list of yesterday's transactions on the New Zealand Stock Exchanges and the yield at the quoted price. The exchange premium on dividends payable in sterling is included, and allowance is made for British income tax where necessary, but no allowance is made for brokerage, nor are bonus dividends taken into account. The yield on Government loans includes redemption. AUCKLAND EXCHANGE Snlo Price Rise or Yield £ s d Fall £ a d Com. Bk. Aus. 0 16 5 -Id -1 0 4 Nat. Bk. N.Z. 2 0 0 Grey Valley Coal . . 0 6 5 -fltd Auckland Gas 028 I) +Bd 517 7 Do. (con.) 0 12 0 +3d 6 0 5 LcylandO'Bricn 014 0 +6d 615 7 Aust. Glass. 5 7 0 -(id 2 10 1 Broken Hill 2 17 *0 -(id 4 G 11 Ditto 2 17 0 -3d 4 0 6 Imp. Chemicals (pref.) . . 14 0 Woolworths (Syd.). . . 1 1 11 +ld 3 8 7 WELLINGTON EXCHANGE Sale Price Yield „£sd £ b d Bank N.Z. . , 1 10 O 5 0 8 Nat. Bank N.Z. 2 n 0 *5 2 4 National Ingco. . 015 3 418 0 Wgton. Gas .. 1 10 0 5 0 8 Imp. Chem. (pf.) . 1 4 0 4 3 4 Macduffs (ord.) .. 0 2 0 Woolworths (Syd.) (2) 1 2 0 3 8 4 CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE Brit. Tobacco (3) 'J 10 3 $ 19 7 Taranaki Oil 0 it 9 Woolworths (X.Z.) (2) 0 10 0 4 3 3 Ditto (S.vd.) 12 0 3 S 4 DUNEDIN EXCHANGE Bonds, 15/0/52-55, 4 . . . • 00 15 O 1 0 4 Do., 15/2/43-46,4 03 0 0 415 5 Bank N.Z. . . 2 0 0 5 0 0 N.Z. Breweries . 118 0 4 0 G Broken Hill Pty. 2 17 6 4 6 11 Ditto .. . . 2 18 0 4 6 2 •Based on interim dividend at rate per annum. UNOFFICIAL LIST Quotations on the unofficial list of the Auckland Stock Exchange are:— Buyers Sellers j[> s d cO s tl Modern Shoes 0 4 0 0 4 0 Silknit . . . . 0 10 0 0 10 0 Whakatane Paper Mills (ord.) . . 0 3 2 0 3 0 Ditto (pref.) . . 0 0 G Woolw >rths Prop'ties 16 0 17 3 THE MINING MARKET MOUNT MORGANS RISE OTHER LEVELS STEADY Business in the mining market on the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday was confined to a sale of Mount Morgans at a further slight advance. Other issues were practically unchanged. Closing quotations were: — , Buyers Sellers £sd £ s d Argo . . 0 1 7 0 2 3 Bit? River .. 0 12 Blackwater .. 0 15 0 Clutha .. .. 0,1 9 0 2 6 Consolidated Gold. .0 7 6 'Gillespie's Beach . 0 0 7 0 1 0 Golden Crown .. 0 10 Golden Dawn .. 0 2 0 Geld fields Dredg. . 0 0 &% Grey T?i' er .. 0 17 ® Komata Reefs .. 0 8 b Maori Gully .. 0 0 4 0 0 8 Martha • • 011 3 011 6 Mataki Gold Dredg. 0 0 4 0 010 N.Z. Crown Mines 0 2 0 0 3 0 Waihi Investments 0 8 0 0 8 0 Waihi Grand June. 0 3 0 0 3 9 Australia and Fiji— Broken Hill South 18 0 110 O Emperor 0 10 3 0 11 0 Loloma • • 1 * ? ion Mount Lyell .. 18 4 1 9 0 Mount Morgan .. 010 2 010 3 Ditto (pref.) .. 116 Gold Mines of Aust. 0 o u New Occidental .. 0 9 0 North Broken Hill 2 8 0 210 0 Placer Developirent 312 0 Kawans . . 0/6 0 9 b Sulphide Corpn. . . "Wgton. Alluvials 0 4 6 0 •> 6 YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS Following is a list of yesterday s transactions in mining shares on New Zealand Stock Exchanges.— AUCKLAND EXCHANGE Mount Morgan, 10s 2d. CHRISTCHURCH EXCHANGE Big River, o%d. GOLD AND SILVER QUOTATIONS IN LONDON LONDON, Dec. 21 Fine gold is quoted to-day-at £7 0s 3d an oz., compared with os iua quoted at 21 Jd an oz. and 20 Jd forward, compared with 20Jd and 19£ d yesterday. Tho quotation tor stiver, at per hne oz. is 21 id, compared with 21 11-loci yesterday. PRICES OF METALS LONDON MARKET FIRMER LONDON, Dec. 21 Following are to-day's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of yesterday:— Dec. 21 Dec. 20 Per ton Per ton £hd £ s d Copper, stan., spot 44 0 7% 43 14 4% gSSSISaMi 850 r Slj J* 50 0 0 50 0 0 Copper e'ect.. wire Q Q 50 0 0 Lead, soft, spot 15 3 0 15 0 0 Lead, soft, forward 15 6 10A lo 3 \A Spelter, spot . . 13 18 1/4 1-1 1* Snelter forward 14 0 0 13 15 i Tin. st'an , spot . 214 2 0 213 17 6 Tin. stan.. 3 mos. 215 3 t> 215 2 u C. J. GREEN'S MONTHLY REPORT C J. Green. Limited, stock nnd sharebrokers, reports tho following sales for the three weeks end'd December 22:—Government securities: Inscribed stock, 4 per cent, 15/4/10-10. COS ss; 1 per cent, 10/G/TO-Zio, t!)H 15s ■ 1 |)«r cent, 15/2/43-40, .COS ;<s; 4 ner cent, 15/1/40-40. COS; 4 per cent. 15/"/43-46, COS ss; 3'2 per cent, 15/1/5357 "<'()) ids; 4 per cent. 15/2/13-40, COS ss.' Miscellaneous: Auckland Gas (fully paid), IH* sd- con., 12s Od; Australian Alloy Steel, 7s 7s 3d; Australian Glass, 103s, 107s (id, 107s Id; Bank of New Zealand. 40s 10d, •10s 0(1 lis. 10s; British Tobacco, 40s, 50s; Broken Hill Proprietary 50s 55s 3d, 50s 8d (2); 57s 4(1, 57s Od. 57s Ild, s<s Gd. 5/s Od- con. 43s Od, 43s 7%(1, 40s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 10s 2d, 10s 2%d, 10s 3d, 10s Od C2); Dominion Breweries lord.), 31s l id, 30s, 31s 3d, 30s Cd, 31s Od (2) 30s; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), 47s Od, 41s Od, -1. r >s <d; pref 48s Od. 48s Od. 48s lOd. 48s Od. 48s (Id. 47s 3d. 47m 7%d, 50s (2); Farmers Cooperative Auctioneering (tl paid), lis 2d; Farmers' Trading (oril.), ISs (Id, 18s id; 0 J Coles, 70s 1(1, «!»S 3d, !>d (2), 80s HOS 3d, SOS Od, S2s Od; Mod's Dock, 13s'3d (2); National Bunk New Zcnlnnd, Ids (id, 48s Od (2). 47s (Id. 48s Od, JOs-. New Zealand Farmers' tcrtiliscr, His /(J; North Auckland Farmers' (B pref.), 8s 7%d; Palmer, Collins and Whitaker, 30s (id: Pukcmiro Collieries ir»a od; Snnford (ord.), 3s (xi; laran'lki (N Z.) Oil Fields, 10s 7d, l()s 3d, Os Od, 1 s lOd 12s 3d. lis lOd, lis Id. lis 3d, lis 2d, 10s Od, 10s 5(1, 10s Od, 10s 3d (2), 10s Od 11s. 10s 0(1, 108 7d, 10s Od; I ooth and Company, 53s Od. 53s Od; Whakatane Paner (ord.), 4s, 3s Od, 3s jod. 3s Od. 3s (id 3s Id, 3s Od; Woolworths Holdings, 15s oil. 15s 3d, 15s 5(1 (3), 15s Od (2), 15s lod; Woolworths, Limited. 20s lod, 'Ms 20s 10(1, 20s 10% d, 21s Id, 21s 3d 21s 4(1, 21s Od; Woolworths (second oref ). 20s; Woolworths (N.Z.). iss Od, lss Od (2). I OS, 18s Bd, ISs 10(1, 18s Del (3). Mining: Broken Hill South, 28s lod. '2Bs od, 27s lid (I). 20s Od (2). 20s 2d; Loloma, "'»s Od. ex div.; Martini Gold, lis 3d (2); Mount Lvell Mining, 2Ss loV 2 d. 2Ss Kid. 20s. •>Ss sd, 20s (2). 2SS Od. 28s 7%d. 28s Od. ;)d 20s 2d; Mount Morgan, Os Od (2). lis 4d- North Broken Hill. 40s, 47s Od, 48s (id 18s Od; 183 3d, 108 10% d, 483 4%d. 478 1 yjd, .jvs, 4bs Od, 48s od. 52s 3d, 4<s l%d, 408 lO'/ad.