FIRM TONE RETAINED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 4

FIRM TONE RETAINED.

AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS. SYDNEY, Mar. 1. Tlie Sydney share market retained a firm tone, although there was a smaller volume of trading to-day. Tooths were traded at a higher level, as were John McGraths. Sales.—Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £2l ; Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s; Colonial Sugar, £46 12s 6d; Associated News, 22s lid; Adelaide Steam, 345; Howard Smith, 21s 9d; Burns, PhiJp, 535; British Tobacco, 49s 9d; Tooths, 56s 3d; ditto, New Zealand delivery, 56s 3d; G. J. Coles, 83s; Australian Glass, 93s 9d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 23s 9d; Farmers’, 335; Anthony Hordern, 18s 6d ; J. McGrath, 425; J. Fielding, ex div., 81s; Standard Cement, 18s Gd; Woolworths, Ltd., 27s 4RI; ditto, prompt, 27s 6d; United Provisions, 6s 4d; Goldsbrough Mort, 30s 10jd; Henry Jones, 49s 6d; Mt. Lyell, 31s lid; Broken Hill Pty., 62s 6d ; ditto, contr., New Zealand delivery, 33s 6d; North Broken Hill, 51s; Rawang Tin, 9s 6d; Larut Tin, 14s 2d: Emperor, 13s 3d. MELBOURNE, Mar. 1. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne to-day, the market was very quiet, and inclined to be easier on the weaker tone of Wall Street; Fijian gold shares, however, were active. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s lid; Huddart, Parker, 46s 3d; G. J. Coles, 82s 9d; Drug Houses, 26s 6d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 28s 6d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 23s 7d; ditto, pref., 395; Broken Hill Pty., new issue, 33s 3d; Broken Hill Pty., paid, 62s 6d ; North Broken Hill, 51s; Electrolytic Zinc, 47s 3d; Emperor, 13s 6d; Loloma, 22s 41d.

Many annual weeds can be got rid of and much good can be ‘done by keeping land clean by cultivation of the stubble immediately after harvest. In many cases stubble land is left more or less idle for some time after harvest and becomes a suitable place for the seeding of many annual weeds. In some places the stubble is ploughed soon after harvest and in other cases it is harrowed. Under this treatment weed plants are disturbed and prevented from seeding. Weed seeds in the soil germinate readily after cultivation and can be killed by subsequent working.—Journal of Agriculture.