OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28233, 22 March 1957, Page 15

OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

SYDNEY Leading industrials, textiles, oils and uraniums were steady on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Commonwealth loans were firm and metals easier. Sales.—Com. of Aust., 17s 9d; National, £1 paid, 335; Bank of New South Wales, £34 2s 6d; A.W.A., 9s; Brad. Cot., 39s 6d; Brit. Tobacco, 34s 9d; B.HJ’., 44s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £45 17s 6d; David Jones, 57s 9d; Drug Houses, 31s IJd; Dunlop, 33s 6d; Email, 7s lOd; Felt and Textiles, 23s 9d; G. J. Coles, 23s lOJd; Morts Dock, 10s; Waltons, 16s 9d; Woolworths, 21s I l ,fed; Woolworths Prop., pr. ord., 19s; Assoc. News, pref., 17s 6d; Mount Lyell, 26s 9d; Cons. Zinc, £5 Is; Mount Isa, 36s 4’fed; Ampol. Pet., 9s lid; A.0.E., pd., 3s lid; Oil Search. 9s 6d; New Guinea Gold, Is sd; Peko, 6s sd; Aust. Uran. Corp., 7*fed; Uran. Dev., 9d; Com. Mining, Ils lOd. MELBOURNE A firm tone was recorded in the investment section of the Melbourne Stock Exchange yesterday, although price fluctuations were mainly small. Trading continued at a moderately high level. The only notable move in a quiet mining section was a rise of Is in Ampol Exploration. Other stocks were steady. Sales.—Commercial, Bank, 17s lid; A.W.A., 9s Id; Goldsbrough, 31s 4d, and rights, 10s; G. J. Coles, 245; Myer, 17s, and pref., 28s 3d; Woolworths, 21s 3d; Ampol, 1955 issue, 9s Bd, rts., 3s 6d; Assoc. Pulp, 32s 9d; A.C.1., 61s 6d; A.P.M., 25s 3d, and pref., 19s 6d; 8.H.P., 44s sd. and rts. 23s 8d; E.Z. Industries, 24s sd; Henry Jones, 60s 6d; Herald, 22s 8d; 1.C.1.A.N.Z., 46s 9d, and rts. 19s; Kauri, 265, and Feb. paid, 25s sd; N.Z. Forest, pref., 22s 6d; Olympic Consol, 7s Id, and pref., 18s 6d; Mount Isa. 36s 6d; North Broken Hill, £7 ss; Commonwealth Mining. Ils lOd: Uranium Development (Uranium Mines), 72s 2d; Loloma, 30s 6d: Mount Morgan, 16s 9d; Ampol Exploration, 9s; Oil Search, 9s 3d; Santos, 7s. LONDON Sales of mining securities included: Consol. Zinc, ord., 81s; Mount Lyell, 21s 6d; Mount Isa, 29s 3d.