AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY IN SYDNEY. (Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. This morning's sales include: — £ s. d.

YESTERDAYS BUSINESS. SYDNEY, May 20. The Sydney Stock Exchange continues to be dull, with most industrial shares at a lower figure. Base metal shares fell sharplv. Sales included: — £ s. d.

The Melbourne market to-day was unsettled and easier following on the uncertainty overseas. Barriers weakened on the announcement of North Broken Hill's reduction in dividend to Gd. Business included:— ,

Bonds, 4 p.c., 1041 100 16 3 Bonds, 4 p.c., 1U57 102 1- 0 Bank of New South Wales 312 o O Anthony Hordern O IS li British Tobacco - S 'J Broken Hill Proprietary .. 3 16 Colonial Sugar 48 15 0 Electro Zinc - 0 U General Industries 0 IS tt

Commerc'l Banking, Sydney 20 8 0 B.'.nk New South Wales . . 3- 5 0 (ioltiibrough Mort 1 11 0 Wilcpx-Mofflin 0 7 3 Toohey's Brewery 1 11 0 Tooths - 15 Amalgamated Wireless ... 3 5 0 British Tobacco 2 8 G Colonial Sugar 40 0 0 Dunlup-Pertfriau 1 2 li Electrolytic Zinc (ord.) .. 2 0 9 Felt and Textiles 1 13 C James Stednian 0 10 0 Kaiidos Cement 1 5 li I.ustre Hosiery 1 2 3 Murts Dock 0 10 8 William Adams 0 15 9 Emperor 0 11 5 Mount Lyell 1 5 0 Tongkah Harbour Tin .... 0 10 9

£ s. d. Goldsbrough Mort 1 11 O Carlton Brewery 3 7 6 Australian Iron and Steel (pref.) 1 8 0 Broken Hill Proprietary . . 3 1 C Con . 1 18 0 Electrolytic Zinc 2 1 4 Pref 2 5 3 G. J. Coles 4 3 9 Broken Hill South 1 9 0 Emperor 0 11 5 Eolonia 1 2 O Mount Lyell 1 4 f) North Broken Hill 2 4 0