AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

TRADING GENERALLY QUIET

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, April 4.

Trading was along quiet lines on the Sydney Stock Exchange today, with only minor changes in price- levels. The tone of the markets was firm.

Sales.—Bank of New South Wales, £32; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20 16s;;' National Bank of Australasia', £10 paid, £14 3sl6d; National Bank, £5 pa;id, £6 18s; Queensland National Bank, £5 2s; ) Colonial Sugar, £47 10s. ■■■•■•. ■

United Insurance, £10 2s 6d; Associated News, 21s 3d; Howard-Smith, 21s ,6d; British Tobacco, Vis; Tooths, 54s 3d; Tooheys, ais; Australian Glass, 91s 3d. ■ Anthony Hordern, 18s' 9d; Farmers', 31s l£d; Kandos-Cement, 23s 6d; Newbold Brick, 31s 3d; Gordon and Gotch, 51s 9d; United Provisions, 6s 2d; Milla■quin Sugar, 36s 9d; Standard Cement, 19s lOJd; Warburton Franki, 10s lOJd; Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 9d. Broken Hill Proprietary,: 61s 3d; ditto, contrib., 36s 4Jd; Broken/ Hill South, 31s 7sd; Zinc Corporation, 84s; Kuala Kampar. Tin, 15s 9d; Loloma, 235. MELBOURNE, April 4. After opening with a firmer tendency, the Melbourne investment mar--ket closed generally easier. Commonwealth loans remained firm. !

r Sales.—Commercial Bank/ of Australia, 16s 6d; National Banie, £5 paid, £6" 18s 6d; National Bank of Australasiat» £10 paid, £14 3s; Adelaide Steam, 33s 6d; I Carlton Brewery, 65s 6d; G. J> Coles, 81s; 'Australian Glass, 91s 6d; DunlopPerdriau, 21s; Goldsbrough Mort, 30s 6d; Woolworths, Ltd., ex.div.,: 21s : 9d; Electrolytic.-Zinc, pref.,' 465; ; |' Victoria Nyanza Sugar,• 14s 6d; Mount Lyell, 28s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 61s i3d; North Broken Hill, 48s 9d;.Broken Hill South, 31s, lid; Tongkah Harbour. Tin, 12s; Emperor, 12s'8d; Loloma, 235.