AUSTRALIAN SHARES
A BRISK TURNOVER (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) ' SYDNEY, August 12. : On the Sydney Stock Exchange today the investment market was brisk and values practically throughout tended ' upwards. Classified stocks, particularly banks, were firm. Noteworthy ' rises among general industries were those in Australian Iron and Steel, pref., and Howard Smith and Broken Hill Proprietary shares rallied decisive- ' ly. In anticipation of a favourable opening of the new season's wool sales ' there is a demand for pastoral issues at improved rales. Sales: Bank of ' New South Wales, £34 ss; National Bank of Australasia (£lO paid), £14 3s; United Insurance, £13; Associated News, 23s 9d; and pref., 24s ljd; Auto- j matic Totes, 19s 6d; Howard Smith, 18s 6d; Burns, Philp, 68s; Australian Gas, A, £8 4s; British Tobacco, 40s 9d; - Tooheys Brewery, 30s 9d; Drug Houses- : of Australia, 27s 10£ d; Australian Iron : and Steel, pref., 255; Dunlop-Perdriau, : 16s IJd; Goldsbrough, Mort, 33s ljd; : Winchcombe Carson, 29s 9d; Wilcox Mofflin, 12s 4d; Millaquin Sugar, 38s; Fairymead Sugar, 395; Electrolytic Zinc, 30s; Farmers, 27s lOJd; Anthony Hordern, 2s 4Jd; Lustre Hosiery, 28s . 9d; General Industries, 20s; ■ Mount Morgan, 41s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 68s 3d; Kuala Kampar Tin, 14s 6d; Rawang Tin, 8s Id; Larut Tin, 12s 9d; Placer Development, £32. j ' MELBOURNE,' August 12. .' Stock Exchange sales today in- ; eluded: —Commercial- Bank- of Australia, 17s lid; G. J. Coles, 645; Broken Hill Proprietary, 67s 9d; North Broken Hill, £7 ss; Howard Smith, 18s 3d.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 12
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242AUSTRALIAN SHARES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 12
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