PROFIT-TAKING
AUSTRALIAN MINE SHARES
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 24. There' was further1 profit-taking on the Stock Exchange today in Barrier mine shares and Mount Lyells, but a better tone at the close. Some industrials were easier. .- Sales. —Commercial Bank of Australia. 19s 8d; National Bank of-Aus-tralasia. £5 paid, £7 18s; National Bank of Australasia. £10 paid, £15 16s; Howard Smith, 24s sd; British Tobacco. 52s 6d;- G. J. Coles, £5 12s; Drug Houses. 29s 9d: Australian Glass, 93s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.). 28s: Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber, 19s 4d; and (pref.), . 355; Goldsbr'ough Mort, 38s 4|d; Electrolytic Zinc. 635; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 645; Mount Morgan, 18s sd: Mount Lyell, 53s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 89s 6d; North Broken Hill, '87s 3d; Broken Hill South, 54s 6d; Emperor, 19s 8d; Zinc Corporation. £8 ss.
. Kauri Timber. 245; General Motors. 24s 6d; ..Hume Pipe. 21s sd; Tongkah Compound, 325; Satupolo Tin, 395. SYDNEY, February 24.
* A reactionary tendency was a feature .of mining business on 'Change today, the activities of profit-takers being most pronounced. Business' in leading company shares continued brisk at round late levels. ,-■ ! ■■
Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £37 10s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 19s 6d; Union Bank, £11 4s; Colonial Sugar, £43 ss; Burns. Philp, 81s 6d; British Tobacco, 525; Tooth's Brewery, 57s 3d: Tooheys, 36s 6d; Coles. £5 12s 6d; Drug Houses, 29s 4£d; Goldsbrough Mori. 38s; Henry Jones Co-op, 46s 9d; Millaquin Sugar, 445; Electrolytic Zinc, 63s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 655; David Jones, *445; Anthony Hordern. 21s; Commonwealth "Wool, 20s lOJd; Hackshalls, 16s 3d; Mark Foy, 30s 9d; Sargents. 335; W. R. Carpenter, 465; Waldas Shoes, 29s 3d;. Producers and General, 23s 6d; Producers and General -(eights), New Zealand delivery. 4d and sd; Woolworths Ltd.. ordinary, buyer £8: Us 6d, seller £8 15s; Woolworths-(New Zealand), buyer £7 6s: Mount Morgan, 18s 4Jd; Mount Lyell, 53s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary. '89s 9dBroken Hill Proprietary (new issue). 78s 3d; Broken Hill South, 54s 3d; North Broken Hill. 87s; North Broken Hill (New Zealand delivery), 87s; Kuala Kampar Tin, 24s 9d; RawanK Tin, 13s 6d; Larut Tin, 21s 3d.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 12
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