AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1936, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

BARRIER MINES WEAKER

ißy Teiepraph—PreFß Assn — ("opvilght.l SYDNEY, "December 2. On the Sydney Stock Exchange today the investment market was fairly steady, with a h,ealthy tone. Banks were more active. Barriers were weaker, and tin shares iwere quiet. Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £34 ss; Commercial Banking, Company of Sydney, £20 10s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 19s 5Jd; National Bank, '£5 paid, £7 10s;'British Tobacco, 46s 9d; Tooth's Brewery, 545; Tooheys, 345; G. J. Coles, 83s; Australian Glass, 89s; Henry Jones Co-op., ex div., 44s 6d; Goldsbrbugh Mort, 36s 6d; Mauri Bros., 71s; Sargents, 29s 3d; Waldas Shoes, 345; Gordon and Gotch, 53s 3d; Woolworths 'Ltd. (ord.), sales £7 15s 6d; Mi Morgan, 16s 3d; Mt. Morgan, N.Z. delivery, 16s 3d; Zinc Corporation, £6: Is; Kuala Kampar Tin, 17s 9d; Emperor Mine, Fiji. 19s IJd; Austral Malay Tin, 72s 6d;-Jelapang Tin, 32s 6d; Puchong JTih, 30s. ■ ■. ' ■ .: • . ■ MELBOURNE, December 2. >-'~O h- the Melbourne Stock Exchange, today the better demand for bonds continued." '. ■ • Industrials were slightly easier, with -British Tobaccos subject to profit-taking following announcement of a 7J per cent, dividend. Mining shares were generally easier. '

Sales. —Commercial Bank ,of Aus-; tfalia, 19s 6d; National Bank, £5 paid, £7 10s; ditto, £10 paid, £15 10s; Howard Smith, 21s 6d; British Tobacco, 475,-; G. J. Coles, 82s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), 25s 9d; Australian Glass, 89s; Electrolytic Zinc, 47s 9d; Mt. Morgan, 16s : 3d; Mt. Lyejl, 375; Broken Hill Proprietary, 79s 9d; North Broken Hill, 60s 6d; Broken HiM. South, 38s; Zinc Corporation,; £6; Emperor, 19s 3d; Loloma, 23s '9d;«Hume Pipe, 21s; Sulphide Corporation, 18s Id.