THE SHARE MARKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 2

THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE Bank of New Zealand shares were Suoted at £2 4s 0d and £2 5s on the lunedin Stock Exchange yesterday, and National Insurances were wanted at £1 4s 9d, with sellers quoting 3d away. There was a buyer of New Zealand Refrigerating (paid) at £1 8s 6d, and the contributing shares were quoted at 13s 9d and 14s 3d, buyer and seller respectively. Dunedin Breweries were sought at £1 7s, but there was no selling quotation below £1 Bs. Westport-Stocktons (ord.) were wanted at 3s 6d, and there were buyers of Westport Coals at £1 4s 6d. An oiler of 16s 6d was made for Macduffs (ord.), and the preference shares were wanted at £1 6s. There was a seller of Broken Hill Souths at £1 10s 3d, and of North Broken Hill at £3. Buyers offered £2 17s for the ordinary Electrolytic Zinc shares and £2 18s for the preference. Yesterday’s Sales Dunedin. —Sales reported: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 5 per cent, preference, £110; Dunlop Rubber, £1 4s 3d; New Zealand Refrigerating, 10s paid, 14s; New Zealand Breweries, £2 3s 2d; Dominion Breweries, £2 6s 6d (cum div.); Dunedin Breweries, £1 7s 3d; WestportStockton (ord.), 3s Bd. Auckland. —Sales on 'Change: Third Liberty Loan, 1947-49, 2J p.c., £97 17s 6d; War Loan, 1951-54, 3 p.c., £99 10s; Stock, 1860-63, 3 p.c., £9B ss; Commercial Bank, 18s 9d; Loan and Mercantile (pref.), £lO9 10s; Farmers’ Auctioneering (B pref.), £1 5s 4d; Auckland Gas, 7s 9d; WestportStockton, 3s 8d; Leyland O’Brien, £1 4s (2); Dunedin Breweries, £1 7s 3d; New Zealand Breweries, £2 3s 2d (2); Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 4s 9d; Consolidated Brick, 10s 4d; Morris, Hedstrom, £2 3s; Wool Bonds, £1 0s 3d; Emperor Mines, 13s 6d; Loloma (cum div.), £1 Is 3d; Farmers’ Freezing (unofficial), £1 5s 6d.

Wellington.—Sales on 'Change: 2J p.c. Stock, 1947, £99 2s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, £2 3s 2d, £2 3s; Consolidated Brick. 10s 4d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), £2 18s 6d; A.C.X., £2 15s 6d; Broken Hill, £2 4s 9d; Whitcombe and Tombs (£2 10s pd.),' £5 15s; Silknit (N.Z., unlisted), £1 5s (2). Christchurch. —Sales on ’Change: 3 p.c. New Zealand Government Stock, May, 1953-56, £9B 17s; Kaiapoi Woollen (7s pd.), 9s 8d; 2£ p.c. War Loan, 1953, £95. Sales reported: 3 p.c. New Zealand Government Stock, 1951-54, £99; 3 p.c. New Zealand Government Stock, May, 1953-56, £92 17s 6d; 4 p.c.- New Zealand Government Stock, 1946-49, £lO2 7s 6d; Bank of New South Wales (late Fri.), £37 10s; New Zealand Insurance, £4 9s (2); Dalgety and Co. (late Fri.), £8 12s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, £2 3s Id; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), £2 13s 9d: Woolworths (Syd., second pref., late Fri.), £2 11s; National Tobacco (unlisted), £1 14s; Mackintosh Caley Phoenix (unlisted, fully paid), £1 15s.