AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS

BREWERY ISSUES FIRMER. SYDNEY, March 4. ' Business on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day was brisker than yesterday, with a very firm undertone. Quotations of most brewery shares were stronger. Shipping shares and Wundelich and Henry Jones were in good demand. Hume Ripe announced an increased dividend for the half-year of 3 per cent. Sales. : —Commercial Banking Co of Sydney, £2l Is; National Bank. £5 paid, £7 5s : Colonial Sugar, £46 12s 6d. Associated News, 22s 3d; Automatic Totes, 19s; Adelaide Steam, 34s 2d; Howard Smith, 22s lid. British Tobacco, 49s 6d; Tooths, 56s 9d; Australian Class 945; Farmers, 335; David Jones, old, New Zealand delivery, 43s 6d, Anthony ITodern, 18s 9d; General Industries, 20s; Mauri Bros., 72s 6d; Goldsbrough Mort, 30s 6d; Wilcox Mofi'lin, 10s lid; Henry Jones, 50s Gel; R. Fowler, 13s. Woolworths, Ltd., 27s 3d; Newcastle Gas, C, 12s 3d; Australian General Insurance. 16s bn: Electrolytic Zinc, 46s 3d. Broken Hill Consolidated, new, 15s Od; .South Broken Hill, 33s 3d; North Broken Hill, 50s 9d ; Ilawang Tin, 9s 5d ; Emperor, 13s 8d; Taranaki Oil, 6s 7d. MELBOURNE, March 4. On the Stock Exchange of Melbourne to-day industrials were a little irregular, without any marked changes. Other sections were inclined to be easier on the news from London. Sales. —Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s 9d; National Bank, £5 paid, £7 4s 6d; ditto, £lO paid, £l3 14s; Union Bank, £9 ss. Carlton Brewery, 665; G. J. Coles, 84s 6d ; Dunlop Berdriau. 23s 6d ; ditto, pref., 395; Goldsbrough Mort. 30s 9d ; Australian Foundation Investment Trust, 5s 6d. Mount Lye!l, 31s l^d; North Broken Hill, oOs; Broken Hill South, 335; Emperor, 13s 6d; Loloma, 225.