STOCKS AND SHARES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1935, Page 2

STOCKS AND SHARES

NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES. YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS Transactions on the New Zealand Stock Exchanges yesterday are reported by .the . Press Association as follows:— Dunedin: Sales reported: Milburn Com 1 ent;. £2 3s 3d (late sale Saturday) ;..Timaru Gas,, £1; Mount Lyell. 19s 7d; Mount David, 2s (after call); 1955 Stock, £lll 17s 6d. Auckland: Sales: Government stock (3i per cent.), 1938-53, £107; 1940 (4 per cent.), £lO4 ss; Auckland Harbour Board (4J per cent.), 1953, £108; Gisborne Sheepfarmers (6J per cent.), 1941, £lOl ss; Bank of New Zealand, 50s 9d (3); Reserve Bank, £6 Ils 6d; Auckland Gas, 28s; Devonport Ferry, 22§ 6d; Huddart Parker (pref.); 26s 6d; Dominion Breweries, 14s lOJd; Tui Brewery, 30s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 33s (2); New Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid), 9s Id; Sun 'Newspaper, 4s 4d; Woolworths (N.Z.), £lO 10s; Goldfields Dredging, sd; Talisman Dubbo, 9s 3d; Waihi, 435. Christchurch: Sales of unlisted stocks: Ben Ledi, 9d; Macetown, Is 2d; Upper Wafut (2s paid), 4s . 9Sd (4). Reported sales of unlisted stocks: Upper Watut (2s paid), 4s lOd; Woolworths (Sydney), ord., 88s 6d. Sales of listed stocks: Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s 8d; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l6 9s; Wilson’s Cement, 345; Alexander Mines (15s paid, cum div.), 17s 3d; Big River, 2s 5d (2); Golden Dawn, 2s 3d; Mahakipawa, 81d (2); Mount Lyell, 19s 9d (2); Skippers, 24d; Worksop Extended, 2s Reported sales: New Zealand Breweries, 53s (2); Goldfield Dredging, 41d; Mount Lyell, 20s; Worksop Extended, 3s.

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE.

PRE-HOLIDAY SLACKNESS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.40 p.m. Sydney, April 15. The Stock Exchange market to-day afforded evidence of pre-holiday slackness, neither buyers nor sellers appearing anxious for extensive business. Sales were: Colonial Sugar, £42 15s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l6 IZs; United Insurance, £11; Associated News, pref., 23s 10|d; Australian Gas A, £8 Is; British' Tobacco, 38s 9d; Tooth's, 50s 6d; Australian Glass, 58s 6d; Automatic Totes, 20s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 17s 4>ld; pref., 35s 6d; Wilcox Mofflin, 9s 4d; Morris Hedstrom, 18s 6d; Greatei’ J. D. Williams, 55.6 d; Millaquin Sugar, 34s 6d; Anthony Hordern, pref., 25s 3d; Standard Cement, 20s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 28s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary,' 52s 6d; Placer Development,- £27 ss; General Industries, pref., 21s 3d. Melbourne: Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s 6d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref.; 23s- 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 52s 6d;. Electrolytic Zinc, 23s 3d; South Broken Hill. 80s; North Broken Hill, £5 11s 6d; Mount-Lyell, 20s; Dunlop Perdriau, 17s 7d.

GOLD RETURNS. The Okarito gold return- was -290 z. 17dwt. for 121 hours, reports the Press Association. The return for the Mataki Gold Dredging Company for the week ended April 14 was 340 z for 139. hours’ work. APPLE SEASON OPENS. LARGE SUPPLIES ARRIVING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, April 14. The Australian and New Zealand apple season opened moderately well consider-

ing that fair quantities of Americans are still arriving and the market is receiving large supplies of South African soft fruits, as well as a fair number of apples.