AUSTRALIAN SHARES
CAUTION THE KEYNOTE
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, June 8. Caution was the keynote on the 'Sydney Stock Exchange today and business contracted appreciably. Barriers displayed some tendency to drift, but there was some activity in gold shares. Sales included: —
Bank of New South Wales 28 18 0 Comm. Bank of Sydney .. 19 2 0 Bank of Australasia 8 15 0 Queensland Nat. Bank 4 14 6 Colonial Sugar 45 7 6 Millaquin Sugar 2 0 9 Fairymead Sugar 116 9 New Zealand Insurance ... 279 Howard Smith, N.Z. delivery 0 19 9 Burns, Philp 2 12 3 Australian Gas, A (old) ... 7 4 6 British Tobacco 2 8 3 British Tobacco (pref.) ... 18 9 Australasian Paper 1 9 6 Tooth and Co 2 12 6 Tooheys, Ltd 1 9 0 G. J. Coles 3 12 6 G. J. Coles (N.Z. delivery) 3 12 6 Woolworths, Ltd 1 2 3 Drug Houses 1 2 6 Hoyts, A (pref.), N.Z. delivery 0 18 74 General Industries 0 19 o Anthony Hordern 0 14 3 Kandos Cement ,. 19 » Kandos Cement (cont.) ... 0 15 u William Adams 0 15 6 Felt and Textiles 1 10 \ Mount Morgan 0 10 o Electrolytic Zinc 2 » 6 Electro. Zinc (pref.), N.Z. delivery 2 H Jj Broken Hill Pty 3 3 3 North Broken Hill 2 6 b Broken Hill South 1 6 o Placer Development oil u Emperor Gold 0 » 8 MELBOURNE, June 8. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included:— Nat. Bank of Aust. (£5) .. 6 2 0 Australian Con. Indus ... 1 16 0 G. J. Coles (ex rights) ... 3 2 b Electro. Zinc (pref.) ■, ? R Mount Lyell- 1 J * Emperor Gold 0 9 8 Broken Hill South 1 J 0 North Broken Hill 2 b b
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 134, 9 June 1939, Page 14
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294AUSTRALIAN SHARES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 134, 9 June 1939, Page 14
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