STOCKS AND SHARES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 12

STOCKS AND SHARES

NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES. YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. The following stock market business was reported by the Press Association yesterday:— Wellington: Sales: Bank of Australasia, £ll 10s 6d; National Bank of New Zealand, £3 Ils 3d; Bank of New South Wales, £3l 10s. Dunedin: Sales: New Zealand Breweries, 52s 6d. Late yesterday: National Insurance, 225; Refrigerating, 10s 4d. After call: Dominion Fertiliser, 21s. Auckland: Sharemarket sales: Stock, 1949, 4 • per cent., £lO6 ss; Waitemata County, 1963, 6 per cent., £109; E. S. and A. Bank, £5 Is 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £3l 10s; Bank of New Zealand, 49s 3d, 49s 6d; A. P-. Assurance, 10s 10d; New Zealand Insurance, 69s 3d; Renown Collieries (pref.), 2s Id; Auckland Gas, 26s 9d; Colonial Sugar, £42 5s (2); Mataki, Is 9d; Waihi, 39s 6d, 39s 9d. Unofficial list: Woolworths (Western Australia), £6 (2). . Christchurch: Sales: National Insurance, 21s lOd, 21s lid, 225; New. Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid, cum div.), 21s, Christchurch Gas, 35s sd; Alexander Mines (15s paid), 17s 2d; Big River, 2s 3d; Brian Boru, 9d; Worksop Extended, 2s 10s (2). Reported sales: Commercial Bank of Australia (cum div.), 16s sd; A.P.A. (cum div.), 10s lOd; National Insurance, 11s lid; New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid, cum div.), 21s 3d; Big River, 2s 3d; Mahakipawa, BJd (2); Skippers, 8d (2). Sales of unlisted stocks: Argo Gold (lOld paid), Is Id; Woolworths (Sydney), ord., 84s (2). Reported sales: Woolworths (Sydney),, ord., 34s 3d. NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARED. By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company Ltd. have declared an interim dividend of Is a share for the half year ended November 30, 1934. This is the same as previous dividends. WOOL, HIDE AND SKIN SALE. MONTHLY STRATFORD EVENT. . Owing to the Wanganui wool sale tomorrow the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co. Ltd.’s Stratford sale was held yesterday, when to a bench of nine buyers, and attractive catalogue was offered. Competition for hides arid sheepskins was keen, and wool for the quality offered showed a slight increase in price were compared with last month s rates. The range of. prices is as follows:— Wool: Crossbred fleece heavy in biddi 2d per lb, ditto fleece cotted and rough 3d, 3id, ditto fleece medium to coarse 4d, 4Jd, 4Jd, sd, s|d, ditto fleece medium and biddi 3Jd, ditto fleece broken . 3d., ditto hogget clean 5Jd, ditto hogget biddi 4d, Southdown fleece Bd, black mixed 3|d, crossbred lambs clean 6id, crossbred dead 3|d, ditto crutchings mixed and biddi 2Jd, ditto locks and pieces (rubbish) Jd. Sheepskins salted: Crossbred lambs tom and damaged 3d each, ditto biddi sound lOd, Is Id, ditto clean sound Is 3d, crossbred full-woolled sound 2s, crossbred pelts sound lid, Is Id. Sheepskins dry: Crossbred pelts torn and damaged Id per lb, ditto sound 3d, ditto quarter to half woolled sound 4Jd, ditto half to three-quarter woolled damaged 2Jd, 3d, ditto full woolled sound 4jd, 4?d, ditto double fleece id, ditto hoggets, torn and damaged, 2Jd, ditto sound 4Jd, 4fd, ditto lambs tom and damaged 31d, ditto biddi sound 4d, ditto clean sound 4Jd, 52d ’ „ « i - 4 Hides and calfskins: Calfskins sound 74d per lb, 7fd, 7sd, 9id, ditto slipy sd, ditto cut 61d, yearlings slipy 2d, ditto sound 5Jd, kip cut 2Jd, 3d, ditto slipy 2Jd, ditto sound 3Jd, 3gd, 4Jd, cowhides cut 31d, 3fd, 3Jd, 4Jd, 4|d, 4Jd, ox hides sound 3Jd, 4ld, s|d, 51d. $ Tallow: Good, Ils per cwt.