COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20141, 10 January 1940, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES MODERATE BUSINESS (Eluc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Jan. 8. Business on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day was of moderate proportions. Prices were steady, investors showing a disposition to mark time. Sales included: —Bank of New South Wales, £27; National Bank, £5 paid, £5 17s; Colonial Sugar, £SO; Associated News, 15s 6d; Australian Gas “A,” £6 19s; British Tobacco, £2 10s 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 19s Id; Australian Consolidated Industries, contributing, 18s Id; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., £3 Is 6d; Mount Morgan, 8s 8d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 Is 6d; Larut Tin, 8s 8d; Emperor Gold, 14s 7d; Oil Search, ss. Morning sales included: Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, £lB 12s; Bank of New South Wales, £27; Broken Hill Proprietary, 81S 3d; Colonial Sugar, £SO; Drug Houses, 27s 6d. Sales on the Stock Exchange of Melbourne to-day included: —Commercial Bank of Australia, 14s 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 I9s; Dun-lop-Perdriau, 19s 3d; Bradford Cotton, £2 9s 7d; Felt and Fextiles, £1 16s 9d; Drug Houses, £1 7s 7d; Colonial Sugar, £SO; Mount Lyell, £1 9s 4d; Loloma Mines, £1 12s; North Broken Hill, £2 7s 7d.

PUKEKOHE VEGETABLES

The warm weather is making Pukekohe produce available freely and prices have receded considerably since the new year business commenced. Potatoes are down to 9s a cwt., which compared with 10s 6d last week. Onions are at 17s 6d, which represents a drop of 4s 6d in the same period. Onions are now coming to hand in a semi-dry condition and are selling readily. Green peas have fallen in price from 8s a sugar-bag to 6s 3d, with some lines at 5s Gd, and carrots from 7s a sugar-bag to 6s 3d. Some drumhead cabbages are still coming forward; they continue to bring 5s a chapman bag and 7s 2d a sack. New lines which are quoted are beetroot, french beans and swede turnips. Beetroot are bringing 5s a sugarbag, french beans Bs, and swedes 5s 6d