AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

PRICES MAINTAINED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, September 7. On the Sydney Stock Exchange today, the recent 'strength of all leading industrial and trading shares was fully maintained. Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £32 2s 6d; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £l7 16s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 4%d; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £6 0s; United Insurance, £11; Colonial Sugar, £66 12s 6d; British Tobacco. 37s 9d: Tooth's Brewery, 469; Tboheys, 28s 3d; Hume Pipe, 13s 8d; Amalgamated Textiles, 12s: 6d; Drug Houses of Australia, 20s 9d; W. R. Carpenter, 40s 6d; Australian Glass, 53s 3d; DunlopPcrdriau Rubber. 20a 6d; Anthony Hordern, 14s sd: Mt. Morgan, 32s VM; Broken Hill Proprietary, New Zealand delivery, 49s 10% d; Rawang Tin, 0s 2d; Placer Development, £26. MELBOURNE, September 7. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included: North Broken Hill, £5;. Mt. Lyell, 20s 3d.

ANDERSONS, LTD. At a special meeting of the shareholders of Andersons, Ltd., Christchurch, the articles of association were altered to provide for the appointment of an additional director, making four "ordinary directors." , Resolutions were passed reducing the £1 ordinary shares by 5s petshare, and providing for immediate cash payments to the first and second preference shareholders. .As from Apiil 1, 1934, the dividend on both preference issues is to be at the rate of 5 per cent, per .annum. ' .