EASIER TENDENCY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 5

EASIER TENDENCY.

AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS. SIDNEY, Aug. 23. A slightly easier tendency characterised to-day’s dealings on the Sydney Stock Exchange, although there was a good demand for Tooths and Tooheys and Standard Cement. Sales includeod :—Com. Bank of Sydney, £2O 13s; National Bank, £lO paid, £l3 14s; Colonial Sugar, £47 15s; Associated News, £1 2s; 6d; Australian Gas, A, £7 4s; British Tobacco, £2 9s 3cl; Tooth and Co., £2 15s 3d; Tooheys, Ltd., £1 12s 6d; Australian Glass, £4 13s 9d; Dunlop Perdriau, £1 Is 9d; Lustre, £1 Os 6d, pref., £1 4s 6d; General Industries, 19s; Mort’s Dock, 12s sd; Permanent Trustee, 18s; Hume Pipe, 19s Gd; McGrath, £2 Os 6d; Australian Drug Houses, 14s 6d; Sydney Ferries, 5s lid; Producers and General, 5s 9d; Standard Cement, £1 2s 6d; Mark Foy, £1; United Provisions, 8s sd; Dalgety and Co., £8 4s; Mount Lyell, £1 7s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 19s; Rawang Tin, 8s 4d. MELBOURNE, Aug. 23. With no very definite change in the overseas market, business onjthe Stock Exchange to-day was quiet, with a slightly easier tone at the close. Bank shares were being steadily absorbed. Sales included: —E.S. and A. Bank, £5 2s 6d; National Bank, £s' paid, £6 12s, £lO paid, £l3 13s; Adelaide Steam, £1 14s; Carlton Brewery, £3 6s; G. J. Coles, £3 19s 9d ; Australian Paper Manufacturers, pref., £1 5s 7d; Cox Bros., 17s 7d; National Reliance Investment Trust, 10s Id; Imperial Chemicals, pref., £1 Is 8d; Jason Investment Trust, 7s 6d; Australian Foundation Investment Trust, 5s 3d ; Mount Morgan, 11s; Mount Lyell, £1 8s; South Broken Hill, £1 11s 3d; Emperor GoliJ, 13s.