AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

MARKETS WEAKER

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 2. The Sydney Stock Exchange today was weaker, with sellers predominating, but they showed no inclination to force business. Disappointment that the new issue of Australian Consolidated Industries is to be made at 5s premium was reflected in the.fall in the price of these |shares today. Sales included: —

£ s. d. Comm. Bank of Sydney.. 18 18 0 Nat. Bank of Aust (£5 paid) 6 5 0 Nat. Bank (£10 paid) 12 15 0 Bank of New Zealand 1 15 6 Bank of Australasia 8 5 0 Colonial Sugar 14 15 0 Millaquin Sugar 2 1 0 Fairymead Sugar 1.12 6 Associated Newspapers ... 018 3 Huddart-Parker 2 13 0 Burns, Philp 2 10 0 Australian Gas, A, old 7 5 0 Tooth's 2 11 6 Woolworths. Ltd. 1 2 0 Australian Cons. Industries 1 16 6 Dunlop-Perdriau 0 19 7 General Industries .... 0 19 0 Morts Dock 0 15 11 W. Atkins 1 3 10| W. Adams ." 0 15 ll Felt and Textiles 1 10 6 W. R. Carpenter 2 1 6 Peters Ice 2 9 9 Goldsbrough Mort 1 5 0 Electro. Zinc 2 9 0 Broken Hill Pty 3 2 9 Broken Hill Pty. (new) .. 015 1\ Broken Hill South 1 6 1 Kuala Kampar Tin •-. 0 12 9 Loloma 1 5 6 Kanieri 1 11 6 MELBOURNE, August 2. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today included: — £ s. d. Bank of Australasia ...... 8 8 0 Comm. Bank of Sydney .. 18 12 6 Nat. Bank of Aust. (£10 paid) 12 13 0 Metropolitan Gas 13 13 0 Huddart-Parker 2 12 3 Aust. Iron & Steel (pref.) 18 3 G. J. Coles 3 12 9 Hume Pifte 0 18 0 Aust. Con. Indust. .... 1 17 3 Felt and Textiles 1 10 6 Claude Neon 1 9 0 Broken Hill Pty 3 3 3 North Broken Hill 2 5 6 Emperor .'.. 0 10 5 Loloma 1 5 10