AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

DEMAND FOE METALS

BUSINESS IN TINS

(By Telegraph— l'veaa Assn.—Copyright.)

! MELBOURNE, March 11. On the Melbourne Stock Exchange today the main interest was in metal stocks, with active trading. Prices closed a little easier. Tin shares were busy. Bonds were firm, and there was a good tone in industrials. Sales.—Commercial* Bank of Australia, 19s lOd; National Bank, % £ 5 paid, £8; ditto, £10 paid, £16 2s; British Tobacco, 535; Carlton Brewery, 63s 3d; Coles, £5 6s; Drug Houses, 29s 7£d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 20s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc, ti6s6 6d; ditto, pref., 695; Yarra Falls, 43s 3d; Silverton Trams, 36s 7d. Mount Morgan, 18s 7d; Mount Lyell, 53s 7id; Broken Hill Proprietary, 91s; North Broken Hill, 925; Broken Hill South, 60s; Loloma, 25s 3d. SYDNEY, March 11. ' There was keen buying of Barriers arid Mount Lyells on the Stock Exchange today, while tin shares were much firmer as a result of the outstanding rise in ..tin. ■ The investment market, too, was very bright. Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £38; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £22 19s; ditto, N.Z. delivery. £22 18s; Union Bank, £11 ss; Colonial Sugar, £43 7s 6d; Mercantile Mutual, 31s 3d; Associated News, 245; Huddart Parker (ord.), ,40s; Burns, Philp, 80s 6d; British Tobacco, 53s 6d; Tooth's Brewery, 56s 6d; G. J. Coles, £5 6s 6d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 295; Goldsbrough Mort,' 38s 7Ad; Morris Hedstrom, Fiji delivery, , 31s; Henry Jones Co-op., 45s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc, 675; Farmers, 365; David Jones, 44s 6d; W. R. Carpenter, 465; Sargents, 33s 6d; Mauri Bros., 755; Permanent Trustee, 20s; Taubmans, 735; Victoria Nyanza Sugar, 16s; Yarra Falls, 48s 9d; United Provisions, 11s 8d; Woolworths Ltd., sale at £8 2s; Woolworths (N.Z.), buyer at £7 ss, seller at £7 10s; Selfridges, early sale at 37s 9d; Selfridges (N.Z.),-buyer at 3s 9d, seller at 4s 6d.

Sulphide Corporation. 17s 9d; New Guinea Goldfields, 3s 3d; Mandated Alluvial, 3s; Lady Shenton, lOd; New Occidental, 10s; Mount Morgan, 18s 9d; Mount Lyell, 545; North Broken Hill, 92s 9d; Broken' Hill South, 60s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 91s; Zinc Corporation, £8 15s 6d; Kuala Kampar Tin, 24s 6d; Rawang, 13s lid; Larut, 21s 3d; Loloma, Fiji, 25s 6d; Takuapa Tin, 30s; Kampong, 33s 6d; Rungah, 35s 6d; Puchong, 395; Southern -Kinta, 30s; Tongkah Harbour, 255.