AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

MARKET HAS SOUND TONE

'By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 4.

On the Sydney Stock Exchange today industrials were weaker, sellers being disposed to take profits, but the tone of the market was sound.

Sales: Bank of New South Wales, .£33 10s; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20 6s; Union Bank, ex dividend, £9 10s; Bank of New Zealand, 40s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £43 7s 6d; Australian General Insurance, 17s; Howard Smith, 19s; Australian Gas, A, £7 14s Gd; British Tobacco, 41s; Tooth's Brewery, 53s 9d; G. J. Coles, 78s 9d; Drug Houses, 30s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 26s 4£d, 32s Ud; Wilcox Mofflin, 11s lOd; Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 16d; Farmers, 325; David Jones, 48s 9d; General Industries, 19s 3d; Goodlet and Smith, 255;- W. H. Soul, 82s; Clifford Love, 51s; Kandos Cement, 22s 6d; Standard Waygood, 8s 3d; W. It. Carpenter, 43s 9d; Nestles, pref., 345; Stedman, 19s lid; Spencers, 7s; Australian Guarantee "Corporation, 25s 6d; Ushers Hotel, 30s 3d; Hume Pipe, 20s 10id; John McGrath, 395; R. Fowler, 15s; Mark Foy, 29s 6d; Sulphide. Corporation, 14s 9d; Woolworths, Ltd., ordinary, buyer £5 10s, seller £5 10s 6d; sale, £5 10s 6d; Mount Morgan, 13s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 735; Kuala Kampar Tin, 14s; Tavua, Is lid; Emperor, 14s 6d.

MELBOURNE, August 4. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included: —Commercial Bank of Australia, 18s 7d; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7; Carlton Brewery, 58s; G. J. Coles, 795, 78s 6d, 795;. Australian Glass, 925; DunlopPerdriau, 18s 4d; Goldsbrough Mort, 325; Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 6d; ditto, pref., 42s 9d; Mount Morgan, 13s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 72s 9d; Broken Hill South, £5 13s 6d; Emperor, 14s 2d, 14s 3d; Loloma, 235; Myers Emporium, 345; United Provisions, 13s lOd; Gordon and Gotch, 51s.