THE SHAREMARKETS
DOMINION EXCHANGES. AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— Sharemarket: 31/5/54-58 4 p.c. (£500), £106; National Savings Bonds, 25/5/54 (£500), £9B 10s Id; Commercial Bank of Australia (450), 13s; Auckland Gas (115), 8s 6d; National Insurance (150), Ils sti; N.Z. (200), 965; Felt and Textiles Australia, rights (200), 7s 3d; ditto (362), 7s 2d; British Tobacco rights (173), 4s 3d; ditto (288), 4s 4d; ditto (120), 4s sd; Byeroft (100), 51s 6d; Coles (200), 70s; Mac Duffs (700), 10s 7d; N.Z. Refrigerating, 10s (100), 17s 8d; Reid Rubber pref. (400), 21s 6d; Wilson’s Cement (500), 16s 6d; Woolworths Sydney (300), 21s 6d; Waihi Investments (300), 3s 6d. Unlisted: Auckland Farmers’ Freezing (850), 28s 3d. WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA). • —Stock Exchange Sales, Late Return: 50 Bank of Australasia, £10; 50 South British Insurance, £4 7s 6d; 20b British Tobacco rights (3 sales), 4s 2d; 400 NX. Forest Products, 5s 4d; 250 Woolworths Limied, £1 Is 3d; 100 Woolworths N.Z. Ltd., £1 4s 9d. Sales today: £4510 2J p.c. 1/10/53 Stock, £99; £5OO 3 p.c., 51-54, £lOO 15s; £5OO 4 p.c. 1954-58 Stock, £106; 237 British Tobacco rights (4 sales), £4 2s; 200 J. J. Niven and Co., £1 17s; 400 TurnbuU and Jones, £1 15s 6d; 150 Woolworths Limited, £1 Is 3d. WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY. The Wellington Gas Company Limited advises that at a meeting ol the board it was decided to pay the usual half-yearly dividend on preference shares at a rate of 5 per cent, per annum, less social security tax. The dividend will be paid on June 15. Transfer books will be closed from June 8 to June 15, inclusive, ex dividend June 8, 1949.
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night (PA) —Sales on ’Change: 3 p.c. December, 1953-56, £lOl 2s 6d; National Bank of N.Z. (100), £2 19s; British Tobacco rights, 4s Id; Colonial Sugar (5), £53; Woolworths N.Z. (100), £1 4s 6d; Mt. Lyell (100), £1 Is. Unlisted: Andrews and Beaven (100), pref., £1 3s; Matea Forests (155), 3s. Sales Reported; National Insurance (175), £1 Is 4d; Felt and Textiles (40), rights, 7s; Acetone pref. (200), £1 3s 9d; Bycrolt (100), (late Friday), £2 Ils 9d; Turnbul and Jones (100). £1 15s 6d; Dalgety (1000, 9s 9d; Ngahere (500), 3s 9d. DUNEDIN, May 30 (PA).—Sales Reported: Ngahere late (350), 3s 9d; Dominion Fertiliser late (200), 27s 9d; Bank of Australasia, late (50), £lO, Whitcombe and Tombs late (400), 22s 6d; Commercial Bank ord. (450), 23s
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 May 1949, Page 10
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