STOCKS AND SHARES

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1935, Page 14

STOCKS AND SHARES

NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES. YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. Transactions in stocks and shares reported by the Press Association yesterday were:— Wellington:—Sales on exchange: Argo Gold, Is 6d; Napier Borough, 41 per cent., 1958, £lO5 ss. Dunedin:—Reported sales: Standard Insurance, 72s 6d; Kaitangata Coal, 19s 6d. Auckland: —Sharemarket sales: Stock, 1940, 4 per cent, £102; Bank of New Zealand, 49s 9d; Guarantee Corporation, 6s; Auckland Gas, 27s 6d; ditto (15s paid), 20s 3d; Union Steam (pref.), 27s 3d; Dominion Breweries, 17s (two lots); Dunlop Perdriau, 18s 6d; Farmers’ Fertiliser, 18s lOd; New Zealand Newspapers, 355; New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid), 19s 7d; ditto (10s paid), 9s 3d; Wilson’s Cement, 34s 3d; Woolworths (New Zealand), £9 15s; ditto (pref.), 41s; King Solomon, 3s lid; Waihi, 40s 3d (two lots), 40s 6d. Christchurch:—Unlisted stocks: Argo Gold (Is paid), Is 6d. Sales on exchange: 4 per cent Inscr. 1946-49, £lO7 15s; Reserve Bank, £6 10s; United Building Society, 22s 3d; N.Z. Refrig. (10s paid), 9s 3d (3); New Zealand Breweries, 50s 4d, 50s 3d; Big River, 2s 3d (3); Golden Sands, 2s 3d; Goldfields Dredging, 8d; Maori Gully, Is 4d (5); Nevis Diesel Electric, 2£d; Nokomai, 2s; Skippers, sfd. Snips reported: Waihi, 40s; Skippers, 6d (3); Maori Gully Is 4d; Staples Brewery (late sale 18th), 31s 6d; Staples Brewery, 31s 6d; Westport Stockton Coal (pref.), 3s 9d; N.Z. Refrig. (10s paid), 9s 3d; National Bank of New Zealand, 69s 3d; Christchurch Drainages 4J per cent -955, £117; Reserve Bank, £6 10s. SELLING PRESSURE. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 8.40 p.m. Sydney, Feb. 19. On the Stock Exchange to-day there was a great deal of selling pressure which is understood to be largely due to the liquidation of the accounts of holders who bought earlier in the year on a rising market. Prominent industrials to ease included Broken Hill Proprietary, British Tobacco, Colonial Sugar and Burns Philp. Tooth’s were down on quotations and Toohey’s were exchanged at a reduced figure. Sales were: Government Bonds (4 per cent.), 1938, £lO4 12s 6d; 1941, £lO5 16s 3d; 1944, £lO7 Is 3d; 1947 £lOB 10s; 1953, £lO7 17s 6d; 1959, £109; 1961, £lO9 7s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £4O; Bank of New South Wales, £3O ss; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l6 6s; Associated News, 225; pref., 22s 6d; Australian Gas A, £7 17s 6d; Tooth’s, 46s 9d; Toohey’s, 28s Australian Glass, 58s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 18s 4Vad; Goldsbrough Mort, 28s 7V 2 d; Winchcomibe Carson (ex div.), 25s 6d; Henry Jones, 36s 3d; Fairymead Sugar, 30s; Victoria Nyanza Sugar, 7s 2d; Electrolytic Zinc, 21s 9d; Farmers, 24s 6d; David Jones, 38s; Anthony Hordern, 16s 9d; Lustre Hosiery, 28s; Drug Houses of Australia, 23s 10%d; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), 22s 3d; Mount Morgan, 40s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 50s 3d; North Broken Hill, 99s 6d; Zinc Corporation, 30s; Bulolo Gold, £8 17s 6d; Rawang Tin, 7s lid; Larut, Us; Malim Nawar, 11s; Placer Development, £2B; General Industries, 14s.