AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

MINING MARKET ACTIVE

United Press Association—By Electric Tele--1 firaph—Copyright. _ ■ ' SYDNEY, March 16. »-i? i , Sydney Stock Exchange today gilt-edged securities were in stron- request, but jn general industrials and classined shares trading was restricted, as buj-ers were not disposed to do business at the pnces sought for leading issues Mining concerns were active. _ Sales.—Bank of Xew South Wales, £34 los; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney £ IS; Howard Smith, los Od; British Tobacco, 38s 6d; Tooth's Brewery, 445; loohey's, 27s 4%d; Dunlop-Perdriau Rub-ber,-19s 4%d;- Goldsbrough-Mort, 33s 6d;-Electrolytic Zinc, pref., ex dividend, 345; -Lustre Hosiery, 24s 3d; 'Meggitts, 20s 6d; Australian Provincial Assurance, 11sMount Morgan, 21s 9d: Broken Hill Pro-:Prietary,:-465,-;Broken-.Hill Sbuth, ex'dividend, 71s 6d;BuloloGold, £6 19s; Kuala Kampar Tin, 14s 6d; Commonwealth bonds, 4 per cent., 1938, £104 55;'1941, £105 ss; '1944, £JO7 10s; 1947, £105 7s 6d; J950. £106 10s; 1953, ~£lO6 los; 1955. £IQ6- 16s 3d; 1957,, i £107 2s'6d; 1959, £107 55;1961, £106 ss.'" ' ■ .'-'■ MELBOURNE, March 16. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included: Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid,. £6 10si Od; British Tobacco,i3Bs 3d; "Herald",; and "Weekly Times," 525; Goldsbrough Mort, 33s 9d. , ■