THE SHARE MARKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18032, 4 September 1920, Page 10

THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market lacked anything approaching animation during the week, and closed, though thero were buying and selling quotations in numerous stocks, without any keen attempt to do business. Mining ventures were without any turnover, and prices were practically unchanged. Moderate attention was paid to booking and. insuraroe, stocks. Bank of Now Zealand changed hands on Monday at £27 15s, and closed the week with a.seller at £28, and no doclaxed buyer. Union Bank sold at £13 12son Wednesday and £13 13s on Thursday: m ,7 ly r buyers increased their offers to £13 14s, but sellers asked £13 15s. Standard Insurance opened the week with a sal© at 60s 3d, and finished with a buyer close upi, eoHers making a ninepenny market. New Zealand Insurance were quitted at 30s 4.Vd and 30s 3d, and closed without a declared buyer. National Insurance, after a sale on Thursday at 755, closed yesterday with a wide market. The turnover in general investment stocks was confined to six lines. South Otago Freezing had a little attention ° n M° nda y &> 15s and £5 16s, and closed yesterday with buyers at £5 15 s and no declared sellers. P. and 0. (deferred), after a, sale on Monday at £440, declined in public and • the - r> b , e , 3t offer yesterday was f2O- Dominion Rubbers sold on Monday at 38s 6d, and yesterday had a seller at 38s 3d, the best buyer offering 37s 3d. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile had a little attention on Thursday at £100 and £99, and yesterday's market was wide. New Zealand Refrigerating (contrib.), after a sale at 24s 2d on Thursday, had a buyer at 24s yesterday, and no declared seller. New Zealand Sugar of Milk, which, have been steady for some time, sold on Thursday at 445, but yesterday were without buyers, a seller offering to accept 44s 6d. The following are yesterday's latest quotar tions, subject to the usual brokerage: — ; Mining Stocks. Taljsman Consolidated—Sellers 89 3d. Waihi Grand Junction—Buy. 10s, sel. ICS 6d. Miount Lyell—Buy. 23s 6d, sel. 24f1. Investment Stocks. National Bank of N.Z.—Sel. £6 12s 6d. Bank of New Zealand—Sel. £28. Union Bank of Australia—Buy, £13 14a. sel. £13 15s. National Insurance Co.—Buy. 74s 3d, seL 75s 6d. New Zealand Insurance Co.—SeL 30s 9d. South British Insurance—Buy. £9 12b. seL £9 16s 6d. Standard Insurance Co. —Buy. GOs, seL 60s 3d. P. and O. (deferred)— Buy. £420, sel. £450. Huddait-Parkeir (ord)—Buy. 555, seL 56s 9d. Westport Coal Co—Sel. 31s 6d. Westport-Stocktoa (ord.)—Sel. 8s 6<L N.Z. Coal and Oil—Buy. 4s 3d. Brown, Ewing (ord.)—Buy. 26s 9& Goldsbrough, Mart—Buy. 46s 6d, sel. 48b. National Mortgage—SeL £6. an aD< * Mercantile—Buy. £9', seL Rubber —Bny. 37s 3d, eel. 38a Donaghy's Kope and Twine—Buy. 30s. Dunedin-Kaikorai Trams—Buy. 23s Refrigerating (£1 paid)— Buy. 45s 9d. N.Z. Refrigerating (10s paid)— Buy. 245. Canterbury Meat Co. (ord.)—Sel. £14 10s.' South Otago Freezing—Buy. £5 15 S . Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) —Sel 365. Oamaru Woollen—Buy. 38s, sel. 41s. N.Z. Paper Mills—Buy. 345, eel. 365." N.Z. Ding Co. (£2 paid)—SeL 70s N Z. Hardware (ord.)-Buy. 17s 9d, seL 20a. Wilsons Portland Cement—Buy. 17s 6d, sel. 18s. ' Milburn Lime and Cement—Buy. 36s 6d. Otago Daily Times—SeL 525. Perpetual Trustees—Buy. 365. Trustees, Executors—Buy. 50s. N.Z. Sugar of Milk—Sel. 44s 6d. M'Gavin and Co.—Buy. 29b. Howard Smith—Sel. 475. Debentures. N.Z. Government War Bonds (4J per per cent., 1930—Buy. £92 15g. AUCKLAND STOCK BXCHANG-E. (Per Unitbh Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 3. The following business was done on 'Change to-day: Sale: New Zealand Insurance, 30a. Reported sale: Union Bank, £13 12s 6d.