FINANCE AND COMMERCE

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1932, Page 16

FINANCE AND COMMERCE

STOCK MARKET EASIER. AUSTRALIAN QUOTATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 9.30 p.m. . . . Sydney, Dec. 19. On the Stock Exchange to-day there was a moderate turnover and prices continued to ease. Commonwealth bonds also weakened under selling pressure. Sales were: Bank of New South Wales, £29 19s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l5 7s 6d; .Colonial Sugar, £SJ 8s; Burns Philp, 47s 6d; British Tobacco (Melbourne register), 325; Henry Jones, 36s lOJd; Goldsborough Mort, 24s 4Ad; Tooth’s, 345; Nestles / (pref.), 31s 3d; North Broken Hill, 69s 3d; South Broken Hill, 45s 9d; Commonwealth Bonds, 4 per cents. 1938, £lOl ss; 1941, £lOO 10s; 1944, £lOO 15s; 1947; £101; 1950, £lOl 10s; 1953, £lOl 17s 6d; 1955, £lOO 10s; 1957, £lOO 7s 6d; 1959, £lOl 15s; 1961, £lOl 17s 6d. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange were: Commercial Bank (pref.), £8; National Bank (£5 paid), £5 17s 6d; Goldsborough Mort, 24s 3d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 27s 7Jd; South Broken Hill, 45s 9d; Dunlop Perdriau, 16s 3d.

SHAREMARKET TRANSACTIONS. NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES. The following transactions on New Zealand Stock Exchanges yesterday were reported by the Press Association: Christchurch: 54 per cent. Inscribed., Feb., 1937, £99; 5J per cent, inscr., Sept., 1937, £99; Commercial Bank of Australia, 13s sd; Bank of New Zealand, 40s 2d, 40s Id (2), 40s 3d,* 40s 2d (2); United Building Society, 14s 9d; N.Z. Refrig. (10s paid), '3s 2d (5); British Tobacco (cum div.), 27s 7d (2); Big River, Is 3d, Is 2|d; Golden Dawn, 4s lOd; King Solomon (cum' div.), 2s 6d (4); Mahakipawa, 3d; Okafito, 8s 3d. Sales reported: 44 per cent, inscr., 1938, £93 (2); 5J per cent, inscr., Sept., 1937, £99 2s Gd; United Building Society, 14s 9d; Mt. Lyell (3 per cent, div.), 18s 3d. Auckland:—Stock Exchange sales: Stock, 1936, 54 per cent., £99; Stock, 1937, 5i per. cent. (September), £99; Auckland Gas, 1935, 64 per cent., £9B ss; Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering B pref., Ils 6d; Nexv Zealand Guarantee Corporation (ordinary), 4s 8d; ’Traders’ Finarice Corporation (7s 6d paid), Is 6d; Golden Dawn, 4s l0d; Waihi Grand Junction, 3s 4d; Waihi, 19s.