AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

PRICES FAIRLY STEADY

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.— Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 23. A further decline in base metal § rices in London was followed on the tock Exchange today by an easier trend in the dependent stocks. The investment market opened quietly, but livened up in the afternoon. Price.s on the whole were fairly steady. Sales.—Colonial Sugar, £46 12s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £32 10s; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £21; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s; National Bank, £5 paid, £7; Mercantile Mutual Insurance, 81s 6d; Adelaide Steam, 335; Howard Smith, 22s 4|d; Burns, Philp, 51s 6d; Australian Gas,-A, £7 6s 6d; British Tobacco, New Zealand delivery, -495; Tooths Brewery, 55s 6d; G. J. Coles, 81s 9d; Woolworths, Ltd., 22s 6d, ex bonus; 'Drug Houses of Australia, 255; ■ Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), 27s'9d; Australian Glass, 91s 6d; Dunlop-Perdriau . (pref.), 38s i'7Jd; Farmers,, 31s '6d; Anthony Hordern, 19s ljd; Stedmans Sweets, 15s 3d> Mort's Dock, JOs 3d; Hume Pipe, 20s'"6d;T Felt and Textiles, .35s lid; Newbold Brick, 32s 3d; J. VMcGrath, 40s; W. A. Carpenter. 465; Gordon and Gotch, 535; Peters, 545; Mauri Bros., 71s; Dalgetys, £8 11s; Goldsbrough Mort, 30s-6d; .Wilcox-Mofflin, 10s Id; Electrolytic Zinc,; 455; -ditto (pref.), 48s; Mount Morgan, 10s; Mount Lyell, 29s lOJd; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 9d; Broken Hill South, 32s 4Jd; North Broken Hill, 51s; Kuala Kampar Tin, 16s 6d; Placer Development, 745.

MELBOURNE, March 23. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne today Barriers-and gold shares were easier,- but iri spite-of-the sharp fall in New York investments generally remained steady, awaiting a definite trend in overseas affairs.

. Sales. —Commercial ' Bank .of Australia,1 16s 'Id; E.S. and A. Bank, £5 3s;_'Natronal: Bank, £5 paid, £7; Adelaide Steam, 335; Howard Smith, 22s sd; British Tobacco, 48s 6d; Carlton Brewery, 64s 9d; G. J. Coles,' 81s 6d; Drug Houses of Australia, 25s 3d; Australian Glass, 925; Dunlop-Perdriau, 22s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 48s; Mount Morgan, 9s 9d; Mount Lyell, 29s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 9d; North Broken Hill, 51s 3d; Broken Hill South, 32s 3d; Zinc Corporation,; 925; Emperor, 13s; Loloma, 22s 10£ d.