BUSINESS SLOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 12

BUSINESS SLOW

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, April 19. A hesitant tone prevails on the Sydney Stock' Exchange, but the market for the time being has lost its downward trend. Most attention is devoted to Commonwealth Bonds. Sales today included: — £ s. d. Comm. Bank of Australia .. 0 15 0 Tooth and Co 2 10 9 United Insurance 10 3 0 Associated Newspapers 0 19 0 Associated Newspapers, pref. 113 Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber .. 10 0 General Industries 0 17 0 Mort's Dock 0 14 3 Kandos Cement 1 6 6 William Adams 0 14 1 Mount Lyell 1 4 0 Mount Morgan 0 ? J North Broken Hill < 2 1 6 Broken Hill South 1 4 6 MELBOURNE, April 19. Sales on the Stock Exchange of Melbourne today included:— £ s. d. Nat. Bank of Aust., £10 pd. 12 7 0 Metropolitan Gas 13 11 0 Aust. Paper Mfrs., pref. .... 1 4 3 Drug Houses 1 1 -^ Mount Morgan u » « Mount Lyell i ,n S Loloma Mine 0 19 0 Emperor Mine • • ° ' D ■ PRICE AND RETURN Latest sales reported and made on the Stock Exchanges of the Dominion, with the highest prices and the approximate yields per cent, per annum to investors (all subject to appropriate taxes and exchanges where operative), based on last year's distributions, and considering redemption and brokerage in the case of redeemable securities where dated, were as follows: — , ... ., Highest Yield. Price. p.c. p.a. £ s. d. £ s. d. Wellington. Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c 15/2/43-46 a. 98 10 0 4 5 8 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/4/46-49 a. 97 0 0 4 6 4 Com. Bank of Aust. u. 0 16 2 4 7 7 E.S. and A. Bank o.s. 5 5 6 3 19 7 Bank of X.Z., D mort. 16 6 5 13 2 South British Insur. .,253 327 Tooth and Co 2 15 6 4 2 10 British Tobacco 2 10 3 .3 19 7 Broken Hill Pty. .... 300 434 Consolid. Brick .... 0 8 9 9 2 10 Taranaki Oil 0 8 6 — Woolworths, Ltd. ... 1 2 11 3 16 4 Woohvorths (N.Z.) . 0 17 6 4 11 5 Maori Gully ........ 0 0 7 — Auckland. Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, . 15/5/49-52 a. 98 15 0 4 5 0 Com. Bank of Aust. u. 0 16 1 4 8 1 IKS., and A. Bank o.s. 5 5 6 3 19 7 Bank of N.Z 1 18 0 5 5 3 IST.Z. Insurance 2 13 6 3 14 9 South British Insur. .. 2 5 3 3 2 7 Westport-Stockton (pref.) 07 2 87 5 Felt and Textiles ... 1 12 0 6 5 0 Tooth and Co 2 15 0 . 4 3 7 Aust. Cons. Industries 1 12 6 —- British Tobacco 2 10 0 4 0 0 Colonial Sugar 48 10 0 3 1 10 Broken Hill Pty 2 19 9 4 3 8 G. J. Coles 4 3 0 44 4 Wilson's Cement 0 16 o * 11 4 Woohvorths Ltd. ... 12 9 3 16 11 Mount Morgan 0 10 6 — Woohvorths Holdings (South Africa) .... 0 14 10 — ChHstchureh. Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, 15/6/52-55 a. 98 10 0 4 4 1 Timaru Boro., 4% p.c, . 31/3/44 a. 100 0 0 — Aust/Cons. Industries 112 6 — British Tobacco 2 10 2 3 19 8 Mount Lyell. 17 0 5 11 1 Dunlop-Perdnau .... 116 610 2 G. J. Coles 4 4 3 4 3 1 Ngahere Gold 127 Dunedin. ; Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, ■ 15/4/46-49 a. 97 10 0 4 5 1 Inscr. Stock, 4 p.c, . „ 15/2/43-46 a. 98 12 6 4 o 3 I a.—Market price includes accrued interest I ' but not brokerage, o.—Free of English income tax. s.—Paid in sterling, u.—In Australian currency.