Commercial INVERCARGILL STOCK EXCHANGE

Southland Times, Issue 25347, 26 April 1944, Page 3

Commercial INVERCARGILL STOCK EXCHANGE

At the call-over of the Invercargill Stock Exchange on Monday the following prices were quoted:— , 4 GOVERNMENT DEBENTURES.— 4 P-C. Stock, 1946-49, b £lOl/10/-; 4 p.c. Stock, '1952, b £105; 4 p.c. Stock, 1952-55. b £rDo 10/-; 3'/z p.c. Stock, 1953-57, b £lO3/10/-. 3'A p.c. Stock, 1957-60, b £lOl/10/-; 1953-56, 3 p.c., December, b £99/10/.-. . BANKS.—Commercial, s 18/9; Commercial, pref. 4 p.c. (cum.), b £lO/10/-; National ° New Zealand, s £2/15/9; New South Wales, b £36/10/-; New Zealand, s £2/4/6. BREWERIES.—Dominion Brewery, b £p 4/9, s £2/6/-; Dunedin Brewery Company, b £l/5/-; New Zealand Breweries, b £2/1/-, s £2/2/-; Tooth's Brewery,.b £2/18/6. COAL.—Kaitangata, b £l/13/6; Westport Coal, s £l/5/9. INSURANCE.—NationaI, b £l/5/-, S £1 5/3; New Zealand, s £4/9/6; Standard, b £3/19/LOAN AND AGENCY.—National Mortgage B, b £l/13/-; Perpetual Trustees, b £2/9/-; Trustees’ Executors (Dunedin), b £4/13/-, Wright, Stephenson (ord.), b £l/5/6, (pref.), b £l/4/9. , , MEAT COMPANIES.—New Zealand Refrigerating, 20/- paid, s £l/9/6, 10/- paid, s 14/3; Southland Frozen Meat, b £2/3/0, South Otago Freezing Company, b £6/10/-. SHIPPING.—Union Steam Ship Co. (pref.), b £l/10/9; P. and O. Stock, b £2/1/-. ) WOOLLEN MlLLS.—Bond’s Hosiery, £2, Kaiapoi (ord.), b £l/4/6, s £l/5/-. MISCELLANEOUS.—Broken Hill Proprietary, s £2/4/6; Colonial Sugar Co., s £6O; G. J. Coles, s £3/8/6; D.I.C. (pref.), b £1 6/-; Donaghy’s Rope and Twine, b £3/4/-; McDuffs Ltd., b 15/6; McKenzie’s Department Stores, Ltd., b £2/17/-; Milburn Lime and Cement, b £l/16/-; New Zealand Drug, b £4/15/-; New Zealand Guarantee Corporation, b 4/-, s 4/6; Southland Ice Cream, b £l/5/-; Woolworths Ltd., b 19/9, s £1; Woolworths (N.Z.), b 18/-. MlNlNG.—Broken Hill South, b £l/7/6, North Broken Hill, b £2/8/-; Gillespies Beach, s sd; Mount Morgans, s 8/-.

NORTHERN EXCHANGES DUNEDIN. —Sales reported: National Insurance (late Friday) £l/5/3; New Zealand Insurance £4/9/-; National Mortgage (A) £3/2/6. CHRISTCHURCH.—SaIes on ’Change: 3'/z p.c. New Zealand Government Stock, 1953-57. £lO3/15/1; Broken Hill Pty. (cum div.) £2 4/9. Sales reported: National Mortgage (A) £3/2/6; Nev/ Zealand Loan and Mercantile (ord. stock) £62/10/-; Christchurch Gas (10/paid) 13/2. ' ~ , T AUCKLAND.—SaIes: First Liberty Loan, 1952- 3 p.c., £99/10/-; Third Liberty Loan, 1953- 3 p.c., £100; War Loan, 1953, 2>/j p.c., £95/5/-; Stock, 1946-49, 4 p.c., £lOl 15/-; 1954-58, 4 p.c., £lOB/10/-; Bank of New Zealand £2/4/3 (3); New Zealand Insurance £4/9/-; South British £3/17/-; Newton King (pref.) £l/2/6; Parker Lamb 4/-; Auckland Gas 7/7; Consolidated Brick 10/8; Woolworths (N.Z.) 18/2; Woolworths Holdings £l/10/-; Wilson’s Cement (odd lot) £l. Unofficial list: Fletchers Holdings £l/5/-; National Tobacco £l/13/6; New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles 4/-; Walker and HaU £l/1/3. „ ~ WELLINGTON.—SaIes: Late Friday, Northern Steam 10/8; Dominion Fertilizer £1 7/-. Monday, 2'/z p.c. Stock, 1953, £95/5/-; Newton King (pref.) • £l/2/6; Tooth’s Breewry £2/19/3. McNAB STOCK SALE Good quality cattle were in demand at the McNab stock sale on Monday. Fat steers were wanted at up to £l5/12/6, others realizing from £ll to £l2, mediums from £8 12/6 upwards and lower quality from £2 12/6 to £6. Heifers found buyers at up to £9/15/- for best sorts and others sold down to £2/5/-. A line of mixed-sex calves brought £3/14/-. A good quality dairy cow made £ll and others from £6 to £7/5/-. Old ewes with teeth and condition to recommend them changed hands at up to 17/3, mediums selling at from 12/- to 14/6 ana inferior down to 7/2. The two-tooth ewes forward were mixed in quality, the best price being 33/8. Others were disposed of at from 22/- to 30/-. The quality of the ewe lambs offered was also mediocre. The best of them sold from 18/9 to 22/-, two small lots being disposed of at 17/4 and 13/4 respectively. Two fat ewes which were above the average in weight were knocked, down at 30/- and other lines changed hands at from 24/6 upwards. DIVIDENDS DECLARED (P a ) WELLINGTON, April 24. Broken Hill Proprietary has declared a half-yearly dividend of 6d a share, Australian currency. . . . The English, Scottish and Australian Bank has declared a dividend of 2'/s per cent., less United Kingdom tax of 7/- in the £l. The National Insurance Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has declared an interim dividend of 4d for the half-year ended March 31, payable on May 16. GILLESPIE’S BEACH (P.A.) DUNEDIN, April 25. Gillespie’s Beach return was 360 z 9dwt for 160 hours.