AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 59, 11 March 1942, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

1 NEW SCALE OF PRICES ' i (Recd. 11.1(1 p.m.) Sydney, March 10. i I The scale of minimum and maxi- I |inum prices for all classes of company ( ishares and debentures drawn up by j - [the committee of the Slock Exchange | to conform with the Federal Govern- j s'meat's amended economic regulations pvas issued to-day. The rates ruling lon February 19— the last day of fre ! /trading have been taken as the basis ’[for use as a new price list which pro-j - vides a margin of 10 per cent, either i vvay from the basis rate. Adjustments i in the price scale will ho made from [ lime to time as changing economic i .land international circumstances may troquire. Semi-Government securities I [are being sold al prices showing a re- I turn of not less 11. an 36 nor more than : 4 per cent, to the buyer after allowling brokerage. [ The new schedule prices include the I following of interest to New Zealand ’ (the first group of figures represent the minimum and the second group ’ I the maximum): Bank of New South ■ |Wal".s, £22 10s £27 10s; Commercial ’Bank of Sydney. £l4 8s El 7 12s; • ! Bank of New Zealand, 33> !)(I Ils 3I; •[Tooths Brewery, 33s 6d—4o.< 6d; Tooheys Brewery. 19s (id 23s 6.1: Aus‘■tralian Gas (A shares) 77s 6d 94s fid; 1 Metropolitan Gas. £9 13s £ll 16-: • Australian General Insurance, 13s 3d 16s 3d; New Zealand Insurance, 57s 9d 70s 3d; South British Insurance, 5-ls- 665; Associated News (ord.), Ils 9d--14s 4d; Herald and Weekly Times, 36s- 445; Huddart F’arker Shipping, 37s lOd- 46s 3d; Burns Philp .and Co.. 37s 455; Colonial Sugar R.e--i fining Co.. £36 £44; Dal.gotv and Co ii 90s—£5 10s; G. J. Coles. 365—445: s [ Woolvvort hs (Svdnev), Lid,, 10s 12 g Wool worths (N.Z.), Ltd., 12s- 15 s; - Selfridges. 14s 6d—l7s 6d: Sarg('nts, 1 18s 225; Newbold General 20s 3d - y 24s 9d; British Tobacco, 31s 37s 6d; n iTaubman’s, 365—445; Mort’s Dock, 14s '.3d- 17s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary. (26s—31s 9d; North Broken Hill. 29s—t|35s; South Broken Hill, 17s 6d—sl2ls 6d: Mount Moran. 5s 7s; Mount r Lyell. 19s 6d -23 s 6d: Arahura Gold. >. 16s 20s; Austral New Z( aland Min- '. ing. 14s 18s; Emperor Mines. Is 9d f 5s lOd; Loloma (Fiji), 11s Ils; Kail nieri Gold Dredging. 1 is -13 s.