STOCKS AND SHARES

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1935, Page 12

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:— Wellington: Sales on exchange: Four per cent. Inscribed Stock, 1946, £lO7 ss; 4 per cent ditto, 1949, £HO ss; Union Bank of Australia, £9 8s Id; Guarantee Corporation, 5s 7d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 14s 3d and, 14s 4d (five parcels); King Solomon, 3s 6d. Dunedin: Sales on exchange: Bank, of New Zealand (long D), £1 13s 6d. Reported sales: Woolworths (Sydney), £5 17s 6d. Auckland: Sharemarket sales: Commercial Bank of Australia (pref.), £9 12s; Reserve Bank, £6 10s; Westport Coal, 22s 3d; Dominion Breweries, 15s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 695, 69s 3d; Dunlop Perdriau, 14s 8d; Morris Hedstrom, 23s 10Id; Farmers’ Fertiliser, 18s 6d; New Zealand Newspapers, 395; Wilson’s Cement, 42s 3d; Waihi, 36s 6d. Unofficial list: Woolworths (Sydney), £5 16s 6d; Nasivi (£3 paid), £B. Christchurch: Sales on exchange: Lyttelton Harbour, 5$ per cent., 1953, £lO7 7s 6d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 8d; Bank of New Zealand, 51s; Bank of New South Wales (D mort. shares), 33s 6d; Reserve Bank, £6 10s; New Zealand Refrigerating (£1 paid), 20s 8d; New Zealand Breweries, 51s, 51s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 68s sd, 68s 4d, 68s 3d, 68s Id; Dunlop Perdriau Rubber, 14s sd, 14s 6d (five parcels); Electrolytic Zinc (ord. cum div.), 29s (two parcels); Mount Lyell, 19s 9d. Unlisted stock: Argo Gold, Is 7d. Sales reported: Mahakipawa (late sale Saturday), 3d; Golden Sands, 2s 6d (four parcels); Howard Smith (late sale Saturday), 18s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 88s 3d; Kaiapoi Woollens (7s paid), 4s 9d; Kaiapoi Woollens (17s paid), 14s 6d, 15s; Waimakariri River Trust, 4$ per cent., 1945, £106; do., 4$ per cent., 1944, £lO6. Unlisted stocks: Argo Gold, Is 7sd (three parcels), Is Bd. AUSTRALIAN SHARE PRICES. MARKET GENERALLY STEADY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—CopyrightRec. 8.40 p.m. Sydney, Sept 2. Although the, market for general industrial shares was quiet on the Stock Exchange to-day it was steady. Pastoral shares in anticipation of the opening of the wool sales were steady and in firm request. Fiji gold shares were freely traded in. Sales were: Bank of New South Wales, £33; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £lB 6s; ditto, New Zealand delivery, £lB 8s; Union Bank, £9 7s; Colonial Sugar, £43; Mercantile Mutual Insurance, 295; Associated News, 225, pref. 235; Howard Smith 19s; Newcastle Gas A and B, 13s 4d; Tooth’s Brewery, 565; Toohey’s Brewery, 29s 3d; Carlton Brewery, 51s 3d; Australian Glass, 85s 3d; Dunlop Perdriau, 14s 8d; Winchcombe Carson, 30s 9d; Wilcox Mofflin, 12s 6d; Morris Hedstrom, 24s lsd; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., 36s 9d; General Industries, 19s; Commonwealth Wool, 20s; Mount Morgan, 39s 3d; Mount Kasi, 235; Kuala Kampar, 13s 9d; Larut, 11s 8d; Zinc Corporation, 50s. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange were: Goldsbrough, Mort, 33s 9d; Metropolitan Gas, 118 s; Australian . Iron and Steel, pref., 25s 6d; Loloma, 107 s; New Morobe, £18; Emperor, 255; Enterprise, 92s 6d; Lake Kamu, £B. e STANDARD INSURANCE. DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night The annual meeting of the Standard Insurance Company was held to-day, Mr. W. E. C. Reid presiding. It was decided to recommend the payment of a dividend of Is 3d a share, absorbing £125,000, and to carry forward £20,055 12s. The retiring directors, Messrs. G. W. Hutchison (Auckland) and Herbert Price were re-elected. GOLD RETURNS. Gold returns are reported as follows by the Press association:— by the Press Association: Gillespie’s gold return, 40oz. Bdwt. for 130 hours; Okarito, 320 z. 4dwt. for 108 hours; Waipapa Beach, 61oz. 4dwt; for 127 hours; Bendigo Goldlight, soz. lldwt. at the end of last week. The Mataki return for the week ended September 1 was 41oz. for 134 hours of work.