STOCKS AND SHARES.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 14

STOCKS AND SHARES.

TTLTAN F. McCABE, Member of Wei-, f ■ lington Stock Exchange, Stock and Sharebroker, Bank of Australasia-Cham-ber« 101 Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Tel. 43-220. Telegrams: ULTMA. Wgtn. S~ GEORGE NATHAN. • Sharebroker, 'Member Wellington Stock Exchange, "i- 111 Customhouse Quay. Telegrams: "geta," Wellington. ■■-;-" .

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

PRICE MOVEMENTS NARROW

(By' Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

' . . • SYDNEY, May 18. On the Sydney Stock Exchange today banking shares; assisted by. the National Bank of Australasia's, disclosure of' increased profits, were somewhat firmer. Moving picture' interests were better. Anthony Horderns advanced a shade. Tooths Brewery were traded actively, being marked down on an ex-dividend basis. Sales.—Colonial Sugar, £46; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney. £22 2s 6d; Union Bank. £11 7s; Australian Gas, A. £7 ss; Australian Gas, B, £7 6s. ■■ ,': . ■ , ' ■-.-■■ British Tobacco. 49s 9d; Toothrßrewery, 55s 9d; Tooheys, 33s 3d; G. J. Coles, £5 9s 6d; Australian^Glass, 92s 6d;. Greater J. D. Williams. 7s sd; Spencers; 5s 3d; Anthony Hordern, 20s 4Jd; and (pref.). 23s 3d. Mount Lyell. 45s 9d: Bulolo Deposits, Is 4d; Kuala Kampar Tin, 22s 3d; Yarra Falls, 41s 6d. ,:.• ' MELBOURNE, May 18.' On the Melbourne Stock Exchange today the markets were quiet, awaiting a definite lead from overseas. Price movements were narrow. Bonds continued the strongest section. Sales.—National Bank of . Australasia, £5 paid, £7; Commercial Bank of Australia, 19s 4d; Howard Smith, 225; Carlton Brewery, 50s; Drug Houses, 26s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.); 26s 9d; Dunlop-Perdriau (ord.), 21s 2d; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), 575: Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 58s; Victoria Nyanza Sugar, 18s;. Australian Paper (rights),' Is lid; Melbourne Electric Stock. 17s, 3d. , • • ■ ■Mount Morgan, 13s 7d; North Broken Hill, 72s 3d; Broken Hill South, 495; Emperor, 16s 8d; Loloma. -19s 9d.