The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-08
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] DOLLAR BUSINESS
ISRECORDOF YEAR
Honolulu Stock and Bond Ex-
change Establishes New Rec
ord In Transactions In 1916

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Business amounting to more than
nineteen millions was done in listed
stocks and bonds by the Honolulu
Stock and Bond Exchange during the
calendar year of 1916. For the fiscal
year, which runs from August to July
81, the business amounted to more than
fourteen and half million.
Much interesting data can be found
in the Manual of Hawaiian Securities,
which is now being distributed by the
Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange. IL
is the annual publication issued by that
association and the foregoing statistics
are gathered from it:
Year is Banner One
During the year 1916, from January
l to December 81, there were sold on
the local stock exchange 744,502 shares
Of sugar stocks, the amount involved
being $16,533, 750.79; 3S,44S shares OF
miscellaneous listed securities, involv.
ing $1,254, S07 .6215, and $l,3O4, 125.2 5 in
listed bonds, market value. This is
shown by the record of sales in the an.
nual and does not include the unlisted
stocks, the ''yellow sheet. - The grand
total is $4,000, 6S3.621s. The business
in unlisted stocks would add consider.
ably to such total
Comparison of the year 1915 with
former years that can be made from
figures contained in the manual show
that the business has increased from
$780, 50 In 1906 and from $2,353, $50
in 1908, the low year, to the splendid
showing of last year. The largest pre-.
vious fiscal year was in 1912, when il
reached $11 ,3S0,7l4, and previous TO
that $40, 12S $3.50 in 1910. Thus the fiscal
year 1916 exceeds any past year by
$3,17l,273 and the calendar year any
fiscal year by $7,712,969.
Heavy Trading in Olaa
Of the sugar stocks traded in on
change there was most interest in
Olaa, that stock far exceeding any
other in volume of business. Sales
were 3O6,074 shares at market value
of $5,079,5l1.39. Next came McBryde
with 180,505 shares, market value
~, LAG, 665.49. In market value Oahu
was close behind, 55,210 shares and
$2,021 ,220.96. Pioneer Mill was fourth
Eva fifth and WaiaIua sixth, the bust
ness in each of them amounting to
more than million dollars for the
year. sGt,
More shares of brewery stock than
any other miscellaneous stocks are re-
corded in the manual, but in market
yalue of shares sold Hawaiian Pineap-
pie leads with 1914, 465. 25 for 1924
shares. Honolulu Brewing & Mailing
Company stock sales were 1880 at a
market value of $282, 636. so. III X,
Much Valuable Information
The new manual shows in detail the
capitalization of each corporation, par
value of stock, agents, balance sheets,
land owned and leased, dividends paid
during the year, crops up to and in
GLIDING 1916, and the estimate for 1917,
profits, dividends, surplus and market
value and irrigation, as well, in some
instances, of other information and
data. -E
Leaving the individual corporations
il there is shown the Hawaii sugar
crops for 1915 and 1916 and from 1907
to 1916, imports, exports and consump.
ton of sugar in the United Kingdom,
United States tariffs on raw sugar, i'm
port and internal revenue taxes on re-
fined sugars in foreign countries and
the United States, European beet crops,
sugar crops of the world and the ranges
of prices of all stocks traded in on
change month by month.