AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

DEMAND FOR METALS

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright.) SYDNEY. March 10.

The Sydney Stock Exchange was active and the markets firm, with keen buying for Barriers and silver and lead stocks. Sales:—Bank of New South Wales, £37 17s 6d; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £22 lGs; ditto. New Zealand delivery, £22 16s; Commercial Bank of Australia. 19a lOAd: Union Bank, £11 ss; Colonial Sugar, £43 7s Gd; Mercantile Mutual Insurance, 31s 4kl; ditto, New Zealand delivery, 31s 4-Jd; Automatic Totes. 19s 9d; Huddart. Parker, 40s; Australian Gas, A, £7 2s; British Tobacco. 53s 9d; Tooth's Brewery, afas 9d; Tooheys, 36s 9d; Coles. £5 6s 6d; Drug Houses, 29s 6d; Goldsbrough Mort. 38s 7Jd; Fairymead Sugar, 39s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc, 67s 9d; David Jones, 44s 0d; Amalgamated Zinc. 10s od; Edwards. Dunlop. 49s 3d; Hackshalls, 14s 9d; Pelaco, 5s 2d; Producers and General 225; Cement Mortars, 13s sd; Newbold Brick, 36s 3d; Woolworths, Ltd., ordinary, sales £8 2s 6d; Wooiworths, Ltd.. first pref., 39s 3d; second pref. 27s 6d; Woolworths (N.Z.), buyer £7 4s, seller £7 10s; Selfndges (Australasia), sales, 40s; SeUridges (NZ.) buyer 3s 9d, seller 4s 3d; Mount Morgan, 18s 7Jd; Mount Lyells, 545; Kuala Kampar Tin 24s lid; R^PS Tin 13s 9d; Larut Tin, 21s; Malim Nawar Tin, 12s lOd. ."

1 MELBOURNE, March 10. At the Melbourne Stock Exchange today there was a strong market in Barriers Tin issues wore active at about recent levels. There was a steady absorption of industrial stock. Sales:— Commercial Bank of Australia, 19s 10d. E.S. and A. Bank, £G 10s: Nation*! Bank of Australasia, £o paid. £8 ditto, £10 paid.-£l6 2s; Howard Smith, 24b 9d British Tobacco 53s Cd; Carlton Brewery, 63s 3d; G. J. Coles .£5 6», Drug Houses, 29s V 2 d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., -20s 3d; DunlopPerdriau 20s 9d; $tto, pref., 3ds 6d Goldsbrough Mort 38s 7-|d: General Motors. 24s 6d; Melbourne Electric, 17s 7d- Sulphide Corporation, 17s .d, Mount Morgan, 18s 7d; Mount Lye.l, 53s 6d- Broken Hill Proprietary, 90s 6d- North Broken Hill, 91s 3d; Broken Hill South, 59s 6d; Zinc Corporation, £8 12s 6d; Loloma, 275.

Buyers. Sellers £ 8 . d. £ s. d N.Z. Govt. Loan*— 3% p.c. Inscr, Stock, 15/3/1939-43 — 101 15 0 ZVz p.c. Inscr. Stock, 13/U/193S-52 101 10 0 102 5 0 3% p.c. Inscr. Stock, 15/5/1939-52 101 10 0 — 4 p.c. Inscr. Stock 15/2/1943-40 — 101 12 C 4 p.c. Infer. Stock, 15/4/1946-49 -. ...:... — 103 5 0 s" i p.c. Inscr. Stock, 3 15/0/1952-55 — 103 10 0 5 p.c Rural •Bonds, 15/0/1947 102 2 6 — '• | Local Bodies Debentures— f Makerua W'£e, 4H I p.c, 1/S/4O — 101 0 0 . iiakerua D'ge, iV* p.c, 1/3/53 — 101 0 0 I Tolnsra Hay Harb. Bd., 4H~ p.c, 10,0/46 .. — 102 0 0 j ! Other Debentures— I AmalK. Brick (Wstn.) — 103 5 0j 1 Amalg. Brick (Auck.) — 101 0 0 j : 1 ] Banks— " Comra. of Aust. (orcl.) 0 19 4 — j Comm. of Aust. (pref.) 9 4 0 — 1 Enp., Scot., & Aust. .. 6 S 6 — ; Xation.-il of X.Z - 3 3 0 ' Xew South Wales .. 3G 10 0 — ', Xew Zealand 2 3 6 2[ 4 6 1 Union of Aust 10 19 0 11 3 G J Financial— I Abraham & Williams . (pref.) — 50 0 ; Equitable Bldg. Co. . 0 10 9 — I Goldsbrough,. Mort and Co — ■ 1 IS 3 X.Z. Guarantee Corp-*' 0 6 1 0 6 7 X.Z. Invest. Mort. and ■ Dep 09 0 — KZ i River Plate ,. 0 IS 3. - '. Wgtn. Trust Loan .. — 5 15 0 . Traders' Finance (con) 0 4 6 — : Gas- I ■ Auckland - 12 6 ; Christchurch 189 — ■ Wellington (ord.) .... 1 17 0 1 18 0 Feilding — ° "* ° N'ew l'jj-raouth ....:. — 4 lo 0 I insurance— ; National of X.Z 0 17 9 0 18 1 South British — 4 18 0 Standard — 2 17 6 iyleat PreservingGear Meat 0 16 11 0 17 3 X.Z. Refrig: (£19) .. — 0 19 0 X.Z. Refrig. (10s) .... 0 S 7 — Wetn. Meat Exp. (ord.) -0 5 0 — Transport— Huddart - Parker (pref.) ..-. * 1 7 3 - ; Union Steam (pref.) . — 17 3 Kelburne Tramway (pref.) 116 — Woollen— ■ Bond's Hosiery Mills * -- 10 6 Oamaru — 0 19 9 Wellington (pref.) .. 5 12 6 — Timaru — 1 ° ° Yarra Falls 2 3 0 — Timber— Kauri 13 0 13 6 Rotoiti — 0 5 G Taringnmutu 0 14 6 — Taupo Totara (ord.) . — 0 9 6 Taupo Totara (10s pref.) - 0 15 9 I drewerles— X.Z. Breweries — 3 0 3 : Staples and Co 1 14 6 1 16 0 ; Tooheys (riehts) ...» - 1 17 0 Tui 2 17 0 — Ward and Cr 0 0 10 — Miscellaneous— Aust. Glass .— 4 13 3 Brit. Tobacco (Aust.)* 2 12 6 — Broken Hill Pty. ... 4 9 6 4 9 9 Colonial Suzar 42 17 6 43 5 0 Consol. Brick & Pipe 0 10 2 0 10 3 Dunlop-Perdriau . .* — 10 4 Electro. Zinc (ord.) .* 3 7 3 — Electro. Zinc (8 p.c. part pref.) .-......* 3 8 3 3 9 0 General Industries .. 10 9 — G J. Coles ..' * 5 4 0 5 6 0 Howard Smith (ord,.)* 14 3 15 0 MacDuffs (pref.) ..... 12 6 - Procera Bread (ord.) 14 0 1 7 0 ( Shillings, Ltd — 0 19 3 Taranaki Oil — . 0 4 S Wilson'? (N.Z.) Cement ■ — 1 15 6 Woohvorths (X.Z.), (ord.) — 7 7 0, Woohvorths, Ltd. , (2nd pref.) — 176^ Griffen and Son .. 0 8 6 — ( Moturoa Oil (ord.) .. — 0 5 0 c Victoria Laundry — — 1 1 3 r 1 c t s a C c r t s a C c '^Ilnlno— p Y r Maori Gully — 0 0 0% Worksop Extd. 0 17 — r Australian— f Mount Lyell, 2 13 5 2 14 0 s Mount Morgan — 0 IS S » Rawaug Tin 0 13 7 — t Wstn. Alluvials (Is 6d i paid) 0 6 3 - c . J a I r a I r c b t: t i: c .F £ S T3 a n 8 1 n c ti "V i UNOFFICIAL LIST. s Buyers. Sellers £ s. d. £ s. d. I Woohvorths, Ltd. .. 8 10 8 3 6 g Woohvorths (W.A.), q Ltd - 7 8 0 jj Selfridges A'asia (old & ? SSf SA'aS'a.^ US 0 119 3 J Charming Creek Col- t ljcries — ° - " f Wellington Publishing — 4 15 0 £ V a n 8 1 n c ti V c tj f: ri c tj f: ri