AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 185, 6 August 1936, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

HEAVY TRADING IN SYDNEY. BUT PRICES EASIER. SYDNEY, August 5. On the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day the investment market continued to slacken, although the turnover was fairly heavy. Commonwealth bonds were steady. Sales included: —Commercial Bank Sydney, £20 6/; Bank New South Wales, £33 7/6; Bank New Zealand, £2 0/3; Goldsbrough, Molt, £1 12/; Wilcox, Mott'lin, 12/; Australian Cas (B), £7 15/; Tooth's Brewery, £2 13/9; Toohey'e, £1 12,6; Burns, I'hilp, £3 13/0; British Tobacco, £2 0/9}- Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 12/9; Colonial Sugar, £43 5/; Claude Neon, £2 10/9; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 1/6; G. J. Coles, £4; Henry Jones, £2 2/9; Kuala Kampar, 14/3; Mount Lyell, £1 7/6; Mount Morgan, 14/3. Commonwealth Bonds: 3% per cent, 1949, £95 2/6; 4 per cents, 1941, £101 12/6; 1944, £102 2/6; 1950, £102 3/9; 1957, £100 15/. Conditions in Melbourne. On the Melbourne Exchange bonds were steady. Industrials were quiet, but with a better tone. The mining market was irregular. Sales included:—Commercial Bank of Australia, 18/8; National Bank of Australia (£5), £7; Goldsbrough, Mort, £1 12/3; Howard Smith, 18/10; Australian Steel (pref.), £1 6/6; Australian Glass, £4 12/; British Tobacco, £2 0/9; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 12/6; Dunlop, I'erdriau, 18/4, (pref.) £1 14/9; Electro]vtic Zinc, £2 1/3; G. J. Coles, £3 39/6; Emperor, 14/6; Mount Lyell, £1 7/9; Mount Morgan, 14/; North Broken Hill, £8 19/; Zinc Corporation, £4 2/.