AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 14

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SYDNEY, May ,2.

On the Sydney Stock Exchange, today there were no spectacular price advances, although the general trend of the market was higher. Dealings were exceptionally heavy in Australian gold companies .in the development stage, operations: being largely speculative. ■ ' • ; / Sales.—Bank of New-South Wales, £33 17s 6d; Commercial Banking Co.- rof Sydney, £18 2s; National Bank of Australasia", £5 paid, New Zealand delivery, £6 9s 6d; Queensland National Bank, £5. 15s; Colonial Sugar, ex dividend, £65 ss; United Insurance, £10 10s; New Zealand Insurance, 61s; Associated News, 25s 6d; ditto, pref., 25s 9d; Australian. Gas, A; £8 3s; Tooth's Brewery, 455; Toohey's, i 298.; Dun-lop-Perdriau Rubber, 19s; Goldsbrough Mort, 345; Anthony JTordern, 16s; David Jones, 40s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 22s . IO.Ud; ,Drug Houses of Australia, 18s; General Industries, 11s 10d," Lustre Hosiery, 245; Millaquin Sugar, 30a 3d; Fairymead Sugar, 34s Gd; Mount Morgan, 21s l%d;' Kuala' Kamp'ar Tin, 15s 10% d; Rawang Tin, 8s 9d; Tanah Biji Tin, 17s 8d; Broken Hill Proprietary,- 48s 6d; Br.pken_ Hill South, 73s 3d; Tongkah Harbour Tin, 235; Placer Development, £23.

MELBOURNE, May 2.

Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today, included:—National Bank of Australasia;! £5 paid, £6 10s; Gordon and- Gotch, 40s; Taranaki Oil, 2s.

Huia. Syndicate, Limited,: Auckland, has l>een registered. Objects: Goldminers. Capital, £3000 in £1 shares. Subscribers: J. Martin and E. C. Culpan, 10 shares each; D. D. W. McGregor. Eileen J. Edwards, T. G. Julian, A. B. Black,, and D. C. Muir, 1 share each.