GENERALLY FIRM

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 140, 10 March 1938, Page 14

GENERALLY FIRM

Australian Share Markets METALS ISSUES QUIET By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 9, 9 p.m.) Sydney, March 9. The markets ou the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day showed little alteration in tone. Price movements were again irregular, but the markets were substantially lirm. Base metal shares were quiet. Sales : Colonial Sugar, £46/12/6 ; Bank of New .South Wales, £32/10/-; Queensland National Bank, £5/4/-; Mercantile Mutual Insurance, 31/101. Associated News, 22/3; ditto, pref., 25/-; Howard Smith, 22/6; Australian Gas, A, £7/8/6. British Tobacco, 49/6; Tooths, 56/9; G. J. Coles, 83/6; Woolworths, Ltd., 26/9. Amalgamated Wireless, New Zealand delivery, 49/-; Drug Houses of Australia, 26/6; Anthony Hordern, 18/9; Lustre, 22/6; ditto, pref., 25/-. Australian Gypsum, 20/9; Warburton Franki, 21/6; Sargents, 28/3; Victoria Nyanza, New Zealand delivery, 15/10. Goldsbrough Mort, 31/-; Greater J. D. Williams, 4/9; Electrolytic Zinc, 46/3. Mt. Lyell, 29/10J ; Broken Hill Pty., 61/9 ; South Broken Hill, 32/9 ; Rawang Tin, New Zealand delivery, 9/4; Larut Tin, 13/9; Lancefield, 6/10. Morning sales included :—Commonwealth Bonds, 4 per cent., 1953, £lO5 5/-; 4 per cent., 1961, £lO6/5/-; Bank of New South Wales, £32/12/6; Tooth’s Brewery, 56/9; Anthony Hordern, 18/9; British Tobacco, 49/6; Broken Hill Proprietary, 61/9; Colonial Sugar, £46 12/6; G. J. Coles, 83/3; Claude Neon (New Zealand delivery),. 50/9; Howard Smith, 22/4|; Meggitt's, 32/-; Victoria Nyanza (New Zealand delivery), 15/10. Melbourne, March 9. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne to-day there was a steady demand for bank stocks, but other investment stocks were quiet. Loloma continued to attract attention. Sales: Commercial Bank of Australia, 16/9; National Bank, £5 paid, £7/4/-; ditto, £lO paid, £l4/14/-; E.S. and A. Bank, £5/7/-. Howard Smith, 22/5; G. J. Coles, 82/9; Dunlop-Perdriau, 23/3; Goldsbrough Mort, 31/3. Electrolytic Zinc, 46/-; ditto, pref.. 49/-; Mt. Lyell, 29/9; North Broken Hill, 49/6; South Broken Hill, 32/6; Zinc Corporation, 94/-; Emperor, 13/9; Loloma, 23/101.