STOCKS AND SHARES

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1935, Page 3

STOCKS AND SHARES

NEW ZEALAND EXCHANGES. YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. Yesterday’s transactions on the New Zealand stock exchanges are reported by the Press Association as follows: — Wellington:—Sales: Mortgage Corporation (5s paid), 6s 2d; New Zealand Refrigerating (10s shares), 9s lid; Bank of New Zealand, £2 11s; Union Bank, £9 7s 6d; Dalgety and Co., £8 10s; New Zealand Breweries, £2 12s 3d; Wilson’s Cement, £2 2s; Wairarapa Farmers’ (pref.), Is 9d; Argo Gold, Is Bd. Reported sales: Colonial Sugar, £4l 15s. Dunedin:—Sales: Woolworths (Sydney) £5 16s. Reported sales: Bank of New Zealand, £2 Ils; National Bank of New Zealand, £3 12s Gd; stock, 1938-52, £109; bonds, 1937-40, £107; stock, 1946-49, £llO. Auckland:—Sharemarket sales: Stock, 1946, 4 per cent., £107; Bank of Adelaide, £6 4s; Bank of New South Wales, £32 10s (2); Bank of New Zealand, 51s (2); South British Insurance, 935; Dalgety, £8 10s 6d; Kauri Timber, 22s 4d; Dominion Breweries, 15s 7d; New Zealand Breweries, 525, 52s Gd; Colonial Sugar, £42 15s; Gear Meat, 225; Farmers’ Fertiliser, 18s (2); New Zealand Newspapers, 395; Waihi, 365; Mt. Lyell, 19s 6d. Unofficial list: Woolworths (Sydney), £5 16s, £5 15s. Christchurch: Sales: Reserve Bank, £6 10s 6d; New Zealand Breweries, 52s 4d (2), 52s 3d; Anthony Hordern, 19s 4d (2); Broken Hill Proprietary, 66s lid (2), 675, 66s lid; Whitcombe and Tombs, 79s 6d (2); Goldfields Dredging, 2!d (2); Mahakipawa, 2d; Mahakipawa (pref., 1930 issue), 3d; Mount Morgan, 38s 6d (3). Reported sales: Mortgage Corporation (5s paid), 6s 4d, 6s 3d; Dalgety and Co., £8 13s; Bank of New Zealand, 51s; New Zealand Government (4 per cent, inscribed stock), 1937-40, £lO2 2s 6d; Claude Neon (New Zealand), 43s 6d; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile (ord. stock), £36. Unlisted stocks: Argo Gold, Is 7jd (2). Reported sale: Woolworths (Sydney), ord., £5 12s 6d. SLIGHT DRIFT IN PRICES. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.25 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 5. A further drift occurred in the market for most issues of Australian consolidated loans to-day, but slightly improved buying support was evident at the reduced rates. In general investments with odd exceptions business was slack with numerous price falls. An improved feeling developed in the gold market. Fiji concerns strengthened. Sales were: Government 4 per cent, bonds, 1938, £lO2, 1941, £lO2 10s; 1944, £103; 1953, £103; 1957, £lO3 2s 6d; 1959, £lO3 10s; 1961, £lO3 15s; Bank of New South Wales, £33 2s 6d; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £lB 6s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 9d; Associated Newspapers, 21s 9d; ditto pref., 22s 6d; Howard Smith, 18s 3d; British Tobacco, 40s 6d; Tooth’s Brewery, 555; Toohey’s Brewery, 28s 7Ad; Carlton Brewery, 51s; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 265; Australian Gas, 84s; Dunlop Perdriau, 15s 3d; Goldsbrough Mort, 335; Winchcombe Carson, 30s 6d; Wilcox Mofflin, Ils sd; Standard Cement, 21s 3d; Mount Morgan, 67s 9d; Broken Hill South, 98s; Placer Development, £5 10s Gd; Loloma, 98s; Koroere, 255; Mineral Development, 8s 4d; Mount Kasi, 20s od, Tavua Development, 13s 6d. Sales at Melbourne were: Bank of Australasia, 13s 9d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s; Australian Glass, 84s; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), 265; Broken Hill Proprietary, 675; Dunlop Perdriau, 14s Ils; Broken Hill South, 98s; North Broken Hill, £7 7s; Loloma, 995; Emperor, 22s 9d. MILBURN LIME DIVIDEND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Sept. 5. The directors of the Milburn Lime and Cement Company recommend the payment of a dividend of 5 per cent, for the six months ended July 31.