OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 14

OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

SYDNEY Leading industrials, Commonwealth loans, oils and uraniums were easier on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Textiles and metals were steady. Sales.—Comm. of Sydney, £2O ss; Comm, ot Aust., 17s 7 Jd; National, 12s 6d paid, 18s 3d; Bank of New South Wales, £3O ss; Tooths, 45s 6d; A.W.A., 5s paid, 17s; A.C.1., 50s 6d; Bradford Cotton. 36s 9d; Broxen Hill Pty., 40s 6d; Drug Houses, 31s; Email, 10s 2d; Felt and Textiles, 24s 3d; General Industries, 245; Goldsbrough Mort, 29s 9d; 1.C.1., 45s 9d; Morts Dock, 17s 3d; N.Z. Forest, pref., 22s 3d; Woolworths, 16s 4Jd; Mt. Isa, 22s 6d; New Broken Hill, 48s; North Broken Hill, £5 5s 6d; South Broken Hill, 695; Ampol Petroleum, 10s 7£d; Ampol Exploration, 14s 10|d; A.0.E., paid, 3s Hid; Oil Search, 14s sd; Mt. Morgan, 265; New Guinea Gold, 2s sd; Peko, 8s; Aust. Uranium Corp 3s; N.A.U.C., 2s 9d; N.U.D., 7s Id; Uranium Development, 2s 3d.

MELBOURNE Investment prices again drifted to lower levels, although most variations were narrow. Humes came back 9d to lead the falls among key stocks. Selected stocks were moderately active, but trading generally was not heavy. Broken Hill South, with a rise of Is 6d, headed a firmer silver-lead group. Uraniums tended to ease while gold and oil moved variably. Sales.—Commercial Bank, 17s 7d; Carlton Brewery, 16s 9d; A.W.A., 17s; G. J. Coles, 17s 3d; Myer, 12s lOd; Woolworths, “rights,” 10s 9d; Ampol, 10s 6d and Options 2s 3d; Associated Pulp, 28s 6d; A.P.M., 20s Bd, and pref. 18s; Bradford Cotton, 36s 3d; Broken Hill Pty., 40s 3d. and 13s 4d capital paid 295; Courtaulds, 18s 7d; Drug Houses, 31s, and new 29s 6d; Felt and Textiles, pref., 17s 6d; Gordon and Gotch, 17s 6d; Henry Jones, 46s 9d; Herald, 18s 3d; Humes, 465, and pret. 21s 3d; 1.C.1., A.N.Z., 45s 3d; Kauri, 275; Olympic, 7s 4d, and rights 7d; Patons and Baldwins, 23s 6d; Broken Hill South, 69s 6d; Mount Lyell. 27s 3d; North Broken Hill, £5 4s 6d; N.A.U.C.’s, 2s lid; Uranium Development, 2s 4d; Uranium Mines, 7s; Loloma, 27s 6d; Mt. Morgan, 26s 2d; Ampol Exploration, 14s 9d; Oil Search, 14s sd; Santos, 10s Id; Woodside, 7s 4d, and cont. 3s 9d.

LONDON Government stocks traded on Thursday included: —Consolidated, 2J per cent., £53 2s 6d; Funding Loan, 4 per cent., £B9 2s 6d; War Loan, 3J per cent., £72; Conversion Loan, 3£ per .cent.. £7l 17s 6d; Victory Bonds, 4 per cent., £93 ss; Commonwealth, 3| per cent., £B4 10s; Commonwealth, 3i per cent., 56/61, £9O; Commonwealth, 32 per cent., 65-69, £79 10s; Commonwealth, 3 per cent., £94; South Australia, 3 per cent., £59 10s. Mining.—Consolidated Zinc, 49s 6d, and pref., 14s; New Broken Hill, 395; New Guinea Goldfields, Is Bd.