AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 72, 26 March 1938, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

QUIET BUT STEADY

(By Telegraph.—Press Asm— Copyright.)

SYDNEY, March 25. The markets remained quiet and fairly steady on the Sydney Stock Exchange today. Several leading industrials showed an improvement. Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £32 2s 6d; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20 17s; E.S. and A. Bank, £5 2s 6d; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7; Union Bank, £8, 10s; Bank of Australasia, £10 3s. ] Adelaide Steam, 33s 3d; Howard Smith, 21s 6d; British Tobacco, 495. i Tooth's Brewery, 55s 6d; Tooheys, 31s 9d; Carlton Brewery, 65s 3d. G. J. Coles, 81s; Woolworths, Ltd., 22s 7Jd, New Zealand delivery; Drug Houses of Australia, 25s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 27s 9d. Dunlop-Perdriau, 22s 7|d; Mort's Dock, 10s 6d; J. McGrath, 40s; Peters Ice, 53s 3d, ex div.;' Mark Foy, 23s 6d; Morris Hedstroin, 25s 6d; Henry Jones Co-op., 48s 9d. Mount Lyell, 29s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 9d; Broken Hill South, 32s 3d; North Broken Hill, 50s 3d, ex div.; Kuala Kampar Tin, 16s 6d; Bawang Tin, 8s 9d; Larut Tin, 13s 6d; Emperor, 12s lOd. MELBOURNE, March 25. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne today there was practically no change in the quotations for leading industrials with the market still quiet. Gold shares were inclined to be a little easier. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia. 16s 2d; National Bank, £5 paid, £7 6s; G. J. Coles, 80s 6d; Drug Houses of Australia, 25s 74d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 22s 8d; Goldsbrough Mort, 30s 6d. Electrolytic Zinc, 445; ditto, pref., 47s 3d; Mount Lyell, 29s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 60s 6d; North Broken Hill, 50s 6d; Broken Hill South, 32s 3d; Tongkah Harbour Tin, 13s; Emperor, 12s lOd; Loloma, 23s l^d.