AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

I YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS. ' I SYDNEY, January 11. On the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day • the market was generally firm. Some " fluctuations were noticeable, Bank of New South Wales shares moving upward. ! Better-class industrials were in strong . demand, and the turnover was heavy. This morning's sales included:—Com- • monwealth bonds, 3% per cent, 1942, £101 • 12/6; 3% per cent, 1047, £103 10/; 4 per cents, 1938, £104 7/6; 1941, £104 10/; Bank of New South Wales, £33 5/; Toohey's Brewery, 27/; Tooth's Brewery, 45/6; Associated News, 22/; British Tobacco, 37/6; Dunlop-Perdriau, 22/1%; Millnquiu Sugar, 31/; Wilcox-Mofflin, 13/10. Sales this afternoon included:—Bank of New South Wales, £33 12/0; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £17 8/; ditto (New Zealand delivery), £17 7/; National Bank (£5 paid), £6 10/; ditto (£lO paid), £13 7/; Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand register), 49/6; Queensland National Bank, £5 14/; Colonial Sugar, £64 17/6; Dalgety's, £10 8/; Australian General Insurance, 12/6; Australian Provincial Assurance, 11/3; New Zealand Insurance, 58/; Howard Smith, 15/; ditto (New Zealand delivery), 15/; Burns, Philp, 55/; Burns, Philp. South Sea!:. 31/6; British Tobacco, 37/6; Tooth's Brewery, 45/3; Toohey's Brewery, 27/; Carlton Brewery, 44/; Dunlop-Perdriau. 22/4%; Goldsbrough, Wort, 37/6; Winchcombe, Carson, 33/6: Commonwealth Wool, 22/; WilcoxMofflin, 13/10: Falrymead Sugar, 34/6; Millaquin Sugar, 30/6; Farmers', 21/9; Lustre Hosiery, 21/; Standard Cement, 18/; Henry Jones. 35/3; Mount Morgan (six weeks), 62/; Broken Hill Proprietary, 44/3; North Broken Hill. 86/9; South Broken Hill, 64/9; Kuala Ksmpar, 15/4%. Melbourne snips included: — Goldsbrough, Mort, 37/: British Tobacco, 37/6; "Herald" and "Weekly Times." 52/6; Commercial Bank of Australia, 18/6: E., S. and A. Bank. £5-12/; National Bank (£5 paid), £6 10/; ditto (£lO paid), £13 10/; Electrolytic Zinc. 26/9; Howard Smith, 15/; Mount Lyell, 23/4%. FEILDING STOCK MARKET. FAT STOCK AUCTION SALES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) FEILDING, Thursday. To-day auctioneers held the first auction salo of fat stock this year. Hitherto both fats and stores have been offered on Friday of each week, but the auctioneers have now arranged to offer fat stock on Thursdays and stores on Fridays. For to-day's sale there was a heavy yardivg of fat sl'oep and a light offering of fat i cattle. Fat lambs did not reach paddock export prices, but fat wethers were well up to export values and fat ewes above the export rate. In some cases fat ewes with good mouths were purchased by farmers for breeding purposes at well over market prices for fat ewes, the country beinjt very short of breeding ewes. Fat cattle sold well considering the quality of the offering, the Polled Angus breed ' commanding top prices. The following is the range of prices:— Primest lambs, Southdown, 21/6; Romney, 21/; prime crossbred, 20/; heavy, : well-finished lambs, 18/0 to 19/2; good weights, 17/4 to 18/; light and unfinished, 15/; prime two-tooths, 20/ to 21/; good weight, 17/; prime heavy wethers, 21/ to 21/6; good, 19/5 to 20/11; medium, 18/10; prime two-tooth owes, 21/; prime ewes, good mouths, 15/ to 16/ (farmers' ' purchases); prime ewes, 13/1 to 13/11; good lines, 12/8 to 12/11; b.f. ewes, 13/7. Fat Cattle.—Polled Angus cows, good weights, £4 2/ to £4 12/; Shorthorn cows, £4; Jei'sey cows, very good quality, £4 8/; good, £4 1/; lighter, £3 to £3 5/; ' 6thers, £1 16/, £2 2/, £2 17/6; Polled ] Angus heifers, good, £4 5/, £3 18/, £3 11/; Jersey heifers, £3 6/; Polled Angus ] bullocks, £6 5/.