STOCK EXCHANGE CALLOVER

Southland Times, Issue 24057, 22 February 1940, Page 3

STOCK EXCHANGE CALLOVER

Invercargill List AUSTRALIAN SHARES EASIER The market was quiet .on the Invercargill Stock Exchange yesterday, prices for Australian industrial shares easing slightly. Quotations were as follows:

UNLISTED Southland Ice Cream 12 0 - SALES ELSEWHERE DUNEDIN Sales reported.—4 p.c. Stock 1943-46 £lOO 5/8; Dunedin Drainage Board (debs) 3 3 ,4p.c. 1958 £96/10/-: Woolworths (N.Z.) (ord.) 17/-; Waitahu 9d. CHRISTCHURCH Sales on Change.—Commercial Bank of Australia 16/6; Union Bank of Australia £B/4/-; New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid) 19/1, 19/2; Broken Hill Pty. (2) £2/12/9; Dunlop Rubber £l/2/-: Woolworths (Sydney, ord.) (cum. div.) (3) £l/5/-. Sales reported.—N.Z. Government 4 p.c. inscribed 1943-46 £lOO/12/6; National Bank of N.Z. £2/6/-: Broken Hill Pty. (2) £2/13/-; Dunlop Rubber £l/2/-; New Zealand Drug £4; Mount Morgan (2) 11/3; 11/1; Austral (N.Z.) Mining £l/10/-. WELLINGTON Sales late Tuesday—N.Z. Insurance £3/1/-; Mac Duffs ord. 5/-. Sales yesterday.—3% p.c. Stock 1941 £101; 4 p.c. Stock 1946 £lOO/12/6; 4 p.c. Stock 1949 £lOl/17/6; 4 p.c. Stock 1955 £lOl/12/6; N.Z. Insurance £3/1/-; E.S. and A. Bank (odd lot) £5/1/-; Broken Hill (2) £2/12/11; Broken Hill £2/13/-; Dunlop Rubber £l/2/-; Motorua Oil (ord.) 4/6. AUCKLAND — Sales—Bank of N.Z. £2/1/6; N.Z. Insurance £3/1/-; Wilcox Mofflin 7/11; Kaiapoi (17/- paid) 13/6; ditto (cum.) 5/-; Anthony Hordern 15/3; Taranakj Oil Developments 3/-; Mt. Kasi 6/-. SYDNEY (Received February 21, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 21. The Sydney stock exchange displayed a slight weakening with a corresponding lack of interest. Sales—Commercial Bank of Australia 15/3; Colonial Sugar £9/17/6; Howard Smith 24/9; Huddart Parker 57/6; Consolidated Industries 36/9; ditto (cont.) 15/-; Farmers 22/9; Australian Gas A £6/19/-; Atkins 24/9; Adams 13/9; W. H. Soul £4/15/-; Mt. Morgan 10/3; Placer Development £3/19/-; MELBOURNE Sales.—National Bank (£5 paid) £6/4/-; Heralds 57/9; Metropolitan Gas £l3/8/-; Electrolytic Zinc 57/-; Mt. Lyell 32/9; Emperot, 14/8; Loloma 31/6. TRADE FIGURES (Received February 21, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The principal increases in the trade figures for January, compared with January of last year, were: Imports Grain and flour, £3,238,000. Meat, £2,614,000. Dairy produce, £3,320,000. Other food, £3,254,000. Non-ferrous ores and scrap, £1,638,000. Raw cotton, £3,568,000. Wool and raw waste, £2,547,000. Non-ferrous metals for manufactures, £942,000. Exports . >- Beverages and cocoa preparations,i £825,000. Coal, £579,000. Chemicals, drugs and dyes, £1,029,000. The principal decreases were as follows: Imports Tobacco, £1,600,000. Wood and timber, £1,090,000. Hides and skins, £564,000. Exports Wool and raw waste, £403,000. Machinery, £731,000. Vehicles, £1,762,000.

GOVERNMENT DEBENTURES Buyer Seller £ s d £ s d Stock, 3>/a pc., 1939-43 101 0 0 —— Stock, 4 p.c., 1943 101 0 0 Stock, 4 p.c., 1943-46 100 5 0 Bonds, 4 p.c., 1943-46 100 5 0 —- Stock, 4 p.c:. 1946-49 Bonds, 4 p.c., 1946-49 101 10 0 Stock, 4 p.c., 1949-52 101 5 0 Stock, 3’,a p.c., 1953-57 — 9b 0 0 BANKS Commercial 0 16 5 0 16 9 Commercial of Sydney 21 10 0 ■■■ " E. S. and A Bank 4 19 0 New Zealand — 2 1 9 N.Z. Long “D” issue 1 6 3 BREWERIES Dominion Brewery — 1 14 0 N.Z. Breweries 1 16 10 1 17 6 Tooth’s Brewery 2 17 6 COAL Westport Coal 1 0 0 — Westport Stockton (pref.) — 0 8 0 INSURANCE National 0 18 10 — New Zealand South British 2 10 3 Standard ' LOAN AND AGENCY National Mortgage 1 15 0 — Wright, Stephenson (pref.) 0 MEAT COMPANIES N.Z. Refrigerating (20/- paid) (10/- paid) 0 8 8 0 9 0 Southland Frozen Meat 1 11 SHIPPING Union Steam Ship Co. (pref.) 1 6 P. and 0. Stock 1 O WOOLLEN MILLS Bruce 0 16 0 — Kaiapoi 0 13 Mosglel 10 0 Bonds Hosiery 1 3 MISCELLANEOUS Broken Hill Pty. 2 12 3 — British Tobacco (Aust. 2 13 D.I.C. (pref). 1 2 Donaghy’s Rope and Twine Hume Pipe (Aust.) 5 New Zealand Drug N.Z. Farmers Fertilizers v io N.Z. Paper Mins J. u Otago Daily Times 1 19 Permanent Building Society 5 16 0 Woolworths Ltd. 1 5 0 Woolworths (N.Z.) 0 17 0 U 17 7 Woolworths Properties Ltd. MINING Big River — 0 1 0 Electrolytic Zinc (ord.) - — 3 6 0 Gillespie’s Beach 0 0 9 Mount Lyell 1 15 6 Mount Morgans Nokomai 0 2 0 Okarito 0 2 6 Waihi Investments 0 1 0 Grey River — 1 0 0