FIRM AND ACTIVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 5

FIRM AND ACTIVE.

AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS. SYDNEY, April 21. The Sydney Stock Exchange reopened to-day after the vacation on a distinctly firmer basis, with unusual activity in Government loans. Most of the leading industrial and pastoral issues advanced, but mining and tin stocks wore relatively quiet. Salos.-—Bank of New South Walos, £3l 15s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £2O 13s; National Bank, £5 paid, £6 18s; Colonial Sugar, £4B: Burns, Philp, 51s 9d; British Tobacco, 48s 3d, New Zealand delivery 48s 6d; Tooths, 55s 6d; Tooheys, 31s l|d.; G. J. Coles, 80s: Australian Glass, 91s 9d; Dunlop Pcrdriau, 22s 3d; Farmers, 31s 9d; Anthony Hordern, 18s 7id; Lustre, 21s; Claude Neon', 47s 3d; Bankers and Traders, 30s; Amalgamated Wriclcss, contrib.j 50s 6d; Wool worths, Ltd., ox div., 22s 3d; YarrYa. Falls, ex div., 375; Cash Orders, 16s 3d; Felt and Textiles, 32s 6d; Gordon and Gotch, 525; Goldshrough Mort, 30s 3d; Winchcombe Carson, 30s; Wilcox Mofflin, 9s; Morris Hcdstrom, 255; Millaqitin Sugar. 375; Electrolytic Zinc, 43s 3d; Mount Morgan, New Zealand delivery, 9s 6d; Mount Lyoll, 28s 7^d; Broken Hill Pty., 61s 3d: Broken Hill South, 21s 9d; Zinc Corporation, 90s; Larut Tin, 14s; Loloma, 23s 4jd. MELBOURNE, April 21. On the- Stock Exchange to-day tho markets opened firm with active trading. Bur-

riers were unchanged on the overseas position. Bonds wero well supported at late rates. Sales. —Commercial Bank of Australia, 16s sd; National Bank, £5 paid, £6 19s; British Tobacco, 48s 3d; Carlton Brewery, 65s 6d; G. J. Coles, 80s; Drug Houses, 25s 3d; Australian Glass, 91s; Dunlop Perdriau, 22s 3d; Australian Foundation Investment 'Trust, ss; Capcl Court Investment Trust, 3s 6d; National Reliance Invcsmont. Trust, 9s; Mt. Lyell, 27s 9d; Broken Ilill Proprietary, 61s; North Broken Hill, 50s 9d; Broken Ilill South, 31s 9d; Emperor, 12s 3d; Loloma, 23s 3d.