AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 16

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

INVESTORS MARK TIME

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, February 8,

A slight reaction on the Sydney Stock Exchange today was again, due to the unsettled overseas situation, causing investors to mark time. Sales included: — , £ s. d. Bank of New South Wales 29 18 0 Comm. Bank of Australia .. 0 15 5 Commercial Bank of Sydney 20 2 0 Colonial Sugar 46 12 6\ Mercantile Mutual Insurance 19 3 Associated News 1 0 1 Howard Smith 0 19 3 Huddart, Parker 2 10 6 Tooth and Co 2 13 3 Toohey's, Ltd 1 11 4 Drug Houses 1 2 3 Farmers 1 8 6 Lustre Hosiery 0 19 0 Australian Wood Pipe .... 0 3 0 Permanent Trustee 1 2 3 Perpetual Trustee 4 13 0 Sydney Ferries 0-6 6 Yarra Falls 1 16 3 Hume Pipe 0 19 3 Cash Orders 0 15 6 Felt and Textiles 1 12 6 Newbold Brick 1 9 6 Peters 2 13 0 Peters, N.Z. delivery 2 12 9 Woolworths, Ltd 1 2 10 Goldsbrough, Mort 1 6 4 Winchcombe, Carson 1 6 3 Fairymead Sugar ;.. 1 10 6 Mt. Morgan 0 10 9 Mt. Lyell 1 6 1 Broken Hill Proprietary .. 215 6 North Broken Hill 2 4 6 Broken Hill South 1 6 0 Placer Deyelopment 3 13 3 Loloma Mines 1 1 3 Oil Search 0 5 11 Morning sales included: — £ s. d. Commonwealth Bonds, 4 p.c, 1941 > 101 17 6 Commonwealth Bonds, 4 p.c, 1950 104 5 0 Tooth and Co. 2 13 0 Associated News (pref.) .. 13 9 Cash Orders, N.Z. delivery . 015 6 Broken Hill Pty., con. ...<. 2 3 3 Marcus Clark 0 4 0 MELBOURNE, February 8. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne today sales included: — £ s. d. Comm. Bank of Australia .. 0 15 4 Carlton Brewery 3 3 9 Imperial Chemicals, pref. .. 12 0 Electrolytic Zinc, pref 2 9 0 Mt. Lyell 16 6 Emperor Gold 0 9 6