STOCKS AND SHAKES

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

STOCKS AND SHAKES

NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES.

YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS.

Transactions on the. New Zealand stock exchanges yesterday are reported by the Press Association as follows:—

Wellington:—Sales: New Zealand Breweries, 51s and 51s 3d; Dunlop Perdriau, 14s sd; Mahakipawa, 2d; Argo Gold, Is 6Jd; Broken Hill, £3 6s 7d; Mortgage Corporation, 6s 2d. Reported sales: 4 pe? cent. Inscribed stock, 1955, £11? 10s. Dunedin sales: Greater J. D. Williams, 7s 10d; Woolworths (Sydney), £5 17s 9d; New Zealand Breweries, £2 10s 6d; bonds, 1943-46, £lO7.

Auckland:^—Sharemarket sales: - Government Bonds, 1940, 4 per cent., £102; Government Stock, 1938-52,; 3j per cent, £109; ditto, 1946, 4 per cent., £107; ditto, 1949, 4 per cent., £110; ditto, 1955, 4 per cent., £ll2 10s; Waiteipata Power, 1964, 4| per-cent., £108; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 7d; Bank of New South Wale? £32 10s; Bank of New Zealand, 51s (two lots); Renown Coal, 10s; Auckland Gas, 25s 9d; Kauri Timber,’ 22s 7d; Dominion Breweries,lss. 15s'?d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 66s 6d; Commercial. Brick, Hs 6d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 36s 6d; Morris Hedstrom, 23s 10jd; New Zealand Drug Company, 83s 6d; Waihi, 365, 36s 6d; Waihi Junction. 3s lid; Mount Kasi, 235; Lolbma,' £5.. Unofficial list: William’s Rotary, 2s; Woolworths, Sydney, £5 17s; Emperor, 26s 3d. ' ■:

Christchurch: Salas: Mount Morgan, 395; Maori Gully, Is 2|d; New Zeeland Newspapers, 38s 6d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 7d; New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid), 20s 8d; New? Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid', 9s 7d (2); Broken Hill Proprietary, 68s 6d (2), 68s 4d (2); G. J. Coles, 675. (3), 67s 3d; Dunlop Petdriau Rubber, 14s 4d. Unlisted stock: Woolworths (Sydney), ord., £5 16s 17s 2d. Reported sales: New Zealand Government (4 per cent inscribed stock), 1937-40, £102; 1943-46, £lO7 ss; 1946-49, £110; Mortgage Corporation (5s paid), 6s 3d (2); Broken Hill Proprietary, 68s 3d (2), 68s (2); Kauri Timber, 22s 6d; New Zealand Newspapers, 39s 3d; Big River, Is 10d; King Solomon, 3s 6d; Gillespie’s Beach, cum div. (late sale Thursday), Is lid; Mahakipawa, 2d. Unlisted stock: J. J. Niven, 7s (2). . BRADFORD TOPS MARKET FIRM, j By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London,' August 22. The Bradford tops market is firm. Following are to-day’s prices and those of the past Weeks at pence , per lb.:—

AUSTRALIAN. MARKETS. Aug.; 30.< Wheat at country” sidings is: Bagged. 2s 7d a bushel, bulk 2s 6Jd, -equal to about 3s 2d and 3s 2fd ex trucks Syd- 1 ney. •. ■ Flour: £ll 2s'6d'ton. \ Bran and pollard:. £5 15s a: ton.

, Potatoes: Tasmanian, nominal £l4, Victorian £l2 10s, Western Australian £l3. ■ Onions: Victorian Brown, £ll 10s to £l2. ■ ■ - .2 Maize: Yellow and white, 4s 8d bushel. MARKET GENERALLY LiTEADY. Rec. 8.35 p.m. .. Sydney, Aug. 30, The Stock Exchange to-day was generally steady. There was a sharp advance in Broken Hill Proprietarys in anticipation of a 10 per cent,dividend., Fiji gold unlisted issues commanded a lot of at-, tention. Tavua Development fell back but the others remained fairly strong. Sales were: Colonial Sugar, £42 17s 6d; United Insurance, £l2 14s; Australian , Provincial Assurance, 235; Associated News, ex dividend, 22s 9d; Toohey’s Brewery, 29s 6d; Australian Glass, 83s 9d; Dunlop Perdriau, 14s 6d; Goldsbrough Mort, 33s 7jd; Winchcombe Carson,- 31s; Wilcox Mofflin, 12s sd; Morris Hedstrom, 245; Farmers, 26s 9d; Lustre, 28s 3d; General'lndustries, 18s 6d; Hume Pipe, Is 3d; J. Fielding, 74s 3d; W. R. Carpenter, 435; Mount Morgan, 395; Broken Hill Propri- > etary, 69s 6d; North Broken, £7 4s; Bulolo Gold, £8 ss; Rawang Tin, 7s 6d; Larut, Ils 9d; Rawang Tin, 7s 9d; Mount Kasi, 235; Commonwealth bonds (4 per - , cent.) 1938, £lO2 2s 6d; 1941, £lO2 Us 3d; 1944, £lO3 2s 6d; 1947, £104; 1955, £lO4. 10s?, 1957, £lO4 2s 6d; 1959, £lO4 15s; 1961, £lO5 ss. . . . Melbourne sales were:— National Bank (£5 paid), £6 15s; Com-mercial-Bank of Australia, pref., £9 12s; Australian Glass, 84s; New Mordbe, £l5; Loloma, 107 s; Emperor, 265; Mount Lyell, 19s 9d. BANK’S INTERIM DIVIDEND. London, Aug. 27. The Bank of Australasia declared an interim dividend of 3s 6d a share.

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