THE SHARE MARKET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 11

THE SHARE MARKET.

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. Mining shares accounted for the whole of the business on tho Dunedin Stock Exchange yesterday, when it resumed after the Easter holidays. There were five transactions la Kawaraus, the prices being 6s for three lots and 6s Id for two. Four lots of the A issue of St. Bathans found buyers in the afternoon. The first sale was effected at 4s premium, the price declining to 3s for the final transaction. The closing quotations were is (buyer) and 4a (seller). Waihis (ex 5s return of capital) were wanted at 18a 9d, sellers asking 20s. Sales: Kawarau G.M. Co., 6s (three), 6a Id (twohj St. Bathans (A issue), 4s, 3s 9d, 3s 6d, 3s. Sale reported: 5 per cent. Postal Bonds (1927), £9B. The following are yesterday afternoon’s buying and selling quotations, which ara subject to the usual brokerage: BANKING. Bank of N.S. Wales—Buy £43 15s. Bank of New Zealand—Buy 60s, sel 60s 9d. Commercial Bank—Bay 29s 9d, sel 31s, National Bank—Buy £6 14s 6d. Union Bank—Buy £l4 18s. BREWEBIES. N.Z. Breweries (Ltd.)—Buy 5Ss 9d, sel 69■ 6d. N.Z. Breweries (Ltd.), Debs.—Buy 25s lid, sel 26s Id. INSURANCE. National Insurance Co. —Bny 78s fid, sal 80s. N.Z. Insurance Co. —Buy 38s. Standard Insurance Co.—Buy 50s. SHIPPING. Huddart, Parker (ord.l —Buy 445, sel 45s Bd, U.S.S. Co. (pref.)—Buy 20s, sel 20s 3d. COAL. N.Z. Coal and Oil—Buy is, sel 2s fid. Westport Coal Co.—Bny 35s fid, sel 365. Westport-Stockton (ord.) —Sel 3s. Westport-Stockton (pref.)—Buy 2s* fid, sel Ss. LOAN AND AGENCY. N.Z. Loan and M. (ord.) —Buy £95. Perpetual Trustees—Buy 60s. MEAT PRESERVING. N.Z. Refrigerating (pd.>—Buy 17s 6d. N.Z. Refrigerating (cont.)—Buy 8s 2d, aal Ss fid. MISCELLANEOUS. Brown, Ewing (pref.)—Buy 20s. Bruce Woollen Co.—Buy 21s, sel 235. Colonial Sugar—Sel £54. Crystal Ice—Sel £3s. D.I.C. (ord.) —Buy 6s fid prem. D.I.C. (pref.)—Buy 20s fid. Dominion Rubber—Buy 545, ael 6fis Sd. Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) —Buy XOe fid. Kaiapoi Woollen (pref.)—Buy 10s fid. Milburn Lime and Cement —Sel 83s 3d. M’Leod Bros. Soap—Buy £23. N.Z. Drug Co. (ex div.) —Buy 6Sa. N.Z. Drug Co. (cont.) —Buy Bs. N.Z. Hardware (ord.)—Buy 11s, sel 12s, N.Z. Malay Rubber (ord.) —Buy 465, sel 60S. N.Z. Milk Products—Buy 31s fid. N.Z. Paper Mills (ord.) —Buy 21s fid. Smith and Smith (pref.)—Sel 19s 3d, Taranaki Oil—Buy 11s. Wilsons (N.Z.) Cement —Sel S6s fid. MINING. Kawarau G.M. Co.—Buy 6s, sel 6s 2d. Nokomai Hydraulic—Buy Ss fid. Waihi—Buy 18s 9d, sel 20s. Electrolytic Zinc (pref.)—Buy 35s Sd, 8M 36s 3d. Mount Lyell—Buy 25s Id, sel 25s 9d. Kawarau High Levels —Sel fid prem. St. Bathans (A issue)—Buy Is prem., aal 4$ prem. St. Bathane (B issue)—Sel 4e prem. Molyncux Electric—Buy 2s disc. WAR BONDS. 4J per cent. Bonds, 1930—Buy £96 10a, 44 per cent. Bonds, 1938—Buy £96 44 per cent. Bonds, 1939 —Buy £96. 6i per cent. Soldiers’ Bonds, 1933-Buy £99 IQs, sel £IOO. 44 per cent. Inscribed, 193 S—Buy £95. 4| pet cent. Inscribed, 1339—8uy £96. 5j per cent. Soldiers’ Inscribed, 1930 Buy £99* 10b. NORTHERN EXCHANGES. (Pdd United Pbess Association.) The following business was done ob Auckland I .—Sakai Bank of New Zealand, 60s" 3d; New Zealand Breweries 265; Taupiri Coal 17s; Auckland Gas 22» sd; Huddart, Parker, 45a ; N°rihera Steam (vonl.l, 7s 4<l; Kauri Timber, 33a 6d, Dominion Pictures 10a 8d; Tsrl “ k h ol k®’ 10. 6d- Union Oil and Soap, 41s 6d, Kawa ku 6s Id (two sales); New Waitahi (cont.). Sales; Bank of New,Zealand, £3 0a 6d' Union Bank of Australia, £lsiNew Zealand Guarantee Corporation tord.). , SSSS Bank of oe* ’narcels); Staples’s Bww«£'4os' a 6d. Wilsons Cement, 4id. Sries- New Zealand Refrigerating (cont.), 8s 2d.