AUSTRALIAN SHARES QUIET

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN SHARES QUIET

ili.v Telegraph—Press Association — Copy. Iglu.l SYDNEY, July 2. The Sydney share market today was quiet without much change In price levels. Sales included: — „ £ a. d. Comm. Bank of Sydney 17 0 0 Nat. Bank of Aust., £10 paid 10 10 0 Howard Smith 0 18 10 Colonial Sugar 46 0 0 Aust. Consol. Indust 1 10 10% British Tobacco 2 0 3 Aust. Iron and Steel, pref. 1 3 IY2 Burns, Philp 2 10 0 Dunlop-Perdriau 0 15 3 Sargents, Ltd 1 4 0 W. H. Soul 2 13 0 Electrolytic Zinc 2 06 Mount Lyell 1 2 7 Broken Hill Proprietary 1 19 6 MELBOURNE. July 2. Sales on the Stock Exchange of Melbourne today included: — £ s. d. Comm. Bank of Australia 0 12 3 Goldsbrough Mort 1 1 9 Carlton Brewery 214 0 Herald and Times ... 2 3 0 Mount Morgan 0 6 9 Emperor Mines • 0 9 4 Loloma Mines 1 0 2 GOLD DREDGING RETURNS. Returns of gold dredging companies as received this week are as follows: — Hours. oz. dwt. Rimu 134 156 4 Grey River 124*& 114 0 Molyneux 75 103 0 White's Electric 130 28 0 Addison's Flat (36 shifts) 38 U Mossy Creek 130 60 9 White's Electric ....... 125 19 0 New River 118 30 0 Worksop 125 45 0 Gillespie's Beach . 127 37 6 Golden Sands.—Return is 370z for 72 shifts. . . ' j Waitahu Gold Mining Company, Ltd., reports a further partial washup of No. 22 paddock, resulting in a return of 530z 3dwt for 21 shifts of eight hours each. This makes a total of 1520z 4dwt so far recovered from this paddock. ,■'_,._ Ngahere.—Fortnightly return to July 1 was 2680z for a yardage of 164,000 m 271 hours' dredging time.