AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY IN SYDNEY. (Received 1.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. This morning's sales included:— Bonds, 4 P-C., 1038 101 11 3 1941 101 1 3 1944 101 2 6 1047 101 10 (t 1050 00 15 O . Commercial Bank of Sydney 22 15 tl Com. Bank of Australia . 0 19 t> Bank of New South Wales 37 5 0 Adelaide Steam 1 12 3 Associated News 1 4 4i ~ (pref.) . . 13 li>i Broken Hill (new) 3 18 0 Drug Houses 1 0 3 Electrolytic Zinc 3 2 3 General Industries 1 0 3 YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS. SYDNEY, February 23. Business on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day was very animated, with the turnover in base metal shares phepomenal. Each call was protracted, and there was evidence of profit-taking. Industrial shares were also widely traded. Business included: — £ s. d. Bank of Australasia 13 7 0 Com. Bank of Australia... O 19 6 Comm. Banking Sydney... 22 19 6 Bank of New South Wales 37 2 6 Union Bank 11 4 0 Howard Smith 1 4 7i Queensland Brewery 1 5 9 Toohey's 1 16 6 Associated News (pref.) . . 14 0 British Tobacco 2 12 6 Broken Hill Proprietary... 4 11 0 Cash Orders 1 3 0 Colonial Sugar 43 7 6 Edwards Dunlop 2 10 6 Electrolytic Zinc 3 4 6 Ditto (pref.) 3 5 <» Farmer and Co 1 16 9 General Industries 1 o 3 Henry Jones 2 7 o I.,ustre Hosiery 1 l 9 Morris, Hedstrom 1 10 o Taranaki Oil 0 3 O Waldas Shoes 1 9 0 Kuala Kampar 1 5 « Mount Lyell 2 14 3 Mount Morgan 0 18 9 On the Melbourne Stock Exchange today Mount Lyells and Barriers were lower owing to profit-taking. Other industrials were steady. Sales included:— £ s. d. Commercial Bank Australia 0 19 7 Nat. Bk. A'asia (£5 paid) 7 17 0 Ditto (£lO paid) 15 16 0 Howard Smith 1 4 4 Australian Steel 1 8 0 Broken Hill Proprietary . . 4 10 0 Drug Houses 1 9 .0 Dunlop, Perdriau 0 10 5 Electrolytic Zinc 3 2 (I Ditto (pref.) 3 3 0 G. J. Coles 5 12 0 Hixne Pipe 1 1 3 Yarra Falls 2 2 tl Broken Hill South 2 14 6 I/olomaf 1 3 6 Mount Lyell 2 14 3 Mount Morgan 0 18 9 North Broken Hill 4 7 9 Zinc Corporation 8 0 0