AUSTRALIAN SHARES
DEMAND FOR CONSOLIDATED
INDUSTRIES
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
. SYDNEY, May 19. The main feature of today's share market was a rapid upward movement in Australian Consolidated Industries shares, stimulated by the company's plans for further industrial expansion. More than 1000 of these shares were exchanged at record prices. . Business otherwise was restricted mostly to the higher-priced industrials. Banks and Broken Hill issues were quiet. Sales included: — ',„ South British Insurance .... 119 6 Associated Newspapers 019 6 Associated Newspapers (pref.) 1 1 6 British Tobacco 2 8 b British Tobacco, N.Z. delivery, Melbourne register .. 2 8 3 Tooth and Co. ........•-.... 213 0 Aust. Cons. Industries 1 16 0 General Industries 0 19 3 Standard Cement 12 4 Anthony Hordern 0 15 0 Commonwealth Wool 1.10 3 Imperial Chemicals , (pref.) 12 9 William Adams 0 15 74 W. H. Soul .......... .... 411 0 Cash Orders Amalg 14 0 J. McGrath .../.......,...... 114 6 Felt and Textiles 19 Jh Henry Jones Co-op. V. 2 10 0 Wilcox Mofflin 0 4,7 Millaquin Sugar 2 0 9 Goldsbrough Mort 1 7 0 United Provisions 0 7 U Broken Hill Proprietary 3 2 0 Broken Hill Proprietary \ (cont.) •• 2 16 0 ( Electrolytic Zinc ........... 2-8 0 Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) ... 2 10 3 Zinc Corporation 411 0 Mt. Morgan. .- 010 3 Kanieri Gold •• 112 9 Taranaki Oil 0 5 3 MELBOURNE, May 19. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included:— National Bank of Aust. (£10) 12 11' 0 National Bank of Aust. (£5) 6 5 6 Dunlop-Perdriau 1 0 0 Carlton Brewery 3 5 0 Aust. Cons. Industries 1 16 7& Electrolytic Zinc 2 7 6 Emperor Gold 0 10 0 Loloma Mines 1 3 6 Broken Hill Proprietary ... 3 2 3
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 12
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284AUSTRALIAN SHARES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 12
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