THE SHAREMARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 11

THE SHAREMARKETS

DOMINION EXCHANGES. [ Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, March 21. Sales on 'Change.—Stock, 15/6/5255, 4 p.c., 199; Auckland Gas, £l/7/42, 6 p.c., £103; National Bank of Austra- . lasia, £l3, 12s 6d; National Insurance, ; 15s 9d; N.Z. Insurance, 51s 6d; Tooths . Breweries (late sale), 55s 6d; Broken t Hill Proprietary, 57s 9d; Electrolytic 3 Zinc ><pref.), 49s 9d; Imperial Chem. r (pref.), 23s 9d (late sale), 23s 9d; N.Z. , Newspapers, 28s 6d; Reid Rubber, 24s i 9d; Woolworths (N.Z.) late sale, 17s; Wilson’s Cement, 15s 9d. i Unofficial List. —Whakatane Paper 3 Mills (ord.), 4s 3d; ditto (pref.), Bs. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. j Sales on ’Change. Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s Id; Electro t Zinc (ex. div. ord.), 455, 45s 3<J, 45s 6d; Taranaki Oilfields, 9s (2 parcels); . Woolworths (Sydney, ord. cum. div.), 22s 9d (5 parcels), 22s Bd, 22s 7d; Mt. ; Morgan, 10s 9d; New River, 7d. Sales Reported. Bank of New > South Wales (late sale yesterday), £29 15s; National Insurance, 15s 9d; I Oamaru Woollens, 15s 6d; Donaghy I Rope, 44s 3d (odd parcel); Electro Zinc (ex. div., ord.), 45s 6d (2 parcels); ) General Industries (cum. div.), 19s 3d; ’ Mt. Lyell, 26s 3d. i Unlisted Sales Reported.—Whaka- . tane Paper Mills, 4s (odd parcel). WELLINGTON, March 21. . Sales on 'Change.—Bank of N.Z., £1 18s 9d (2); Woolworths (N.Z.) ord., 17s (2). Sales To-day.—4 p.c. stock, 1946, £9B 10s; 3 p.c. stock, 1941, £96 ss; 4 p.c. stock, 1946, £9B 10s; Wellington ■ Woollen (ord.), £5; McKenzies Department Stores, £2 0s 9d (3); McKenzies Department Stores, £2 0s 9d (R.A.C.); Wilson's Cement, 15s 6d; N.Z. Drug, £3 6s; Woolworths Ltd. (ord.), £1 3s; Woolworths Ltd. (ord), £1 2s 6d. AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES STEADIER TONE PREVAILS Received March 21, 11.43 p.m. SYDNEY, March 21. The downward trend of prices was arrested on the Stock Exchange today when a steadier tone developed. Leading industrial and barrier shares recovered a portion of their recent losses. Sales. —Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l9 19s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s 3d; United Insurance, £9 19s; Associated News, 18s lOid (pref.), 21s; Howard Smith, 19s 3d; Huddart Parker, 51s; Burns Philp, 51s 6d; ditto (South Sea), 255; Australian Gas (A) £7; British Tobacco, 475; Tooths, 525; G. J. Coles, 745; Woolworths, 21s 6d; Drug Houses of Australia, 22s 6d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 19s 1C Jd; Mark Foy, 18s; Farmers, 28s 3d; David Jones, 335; Anthony Hordern, 14s; Morts Dock, 14s; Australian Consolidated Industries, 295; W. Atkins, 225; W. Adams, 14s 7d; Felt and Textiles, 31s; Sargents, 28s 6d; W. R. Carpenter, 425; Standard Cement, 20s 9d; Wilcox Mofflin, 5s 7d; Henry Jones, 47s 9d; Colonial Sugar, £46 2s 6d; Fairymead Sugar, 30s; Electrolytic Zinc, 43s lOid; Mt. Morgan, 10s 3d; Mt. Lyell, 25s 71d; Zinc Corporation, 89s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 54s 9d; ditto (contr.), 43s 9d; North Broken Hill, 43s 6d; Broken Hill South, 25s 10Jd; Placer Development, 70s 9d; Arahura Gold, 25s 6d; Emperor, 8s; Kanieri, 32s lid. MELBOURNE MARKET Received May 21, 11.43 p.m. MELBOURNE, March 21. Sales.—Loloma, 19s 3d; Emperor, 8s 3d; Mt. Lyell, 25s 6d; G. J. Coles, 745; Dunlop-Perdriau, 20s 2d; Electrolytic Zinc, 435! ditto (pref.), 47s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 54s 6d; ditto (contr.), 435; Carlton Brewery, 64s 6d; Mt. Morgan, 10s 3d; Kauri Timber, 22s 6d; Herald and Times, 59s 6d; Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s 2d.