LESS TRADING.
AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS. SYDNEY, March 23. The market on the Stock Exohange today suffered a setback as the result of obents in Europe, but a 1 vet for tone developed later in the day. Trading was generally restricted. Sales included: Bank of New South Wales, £2B 17s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l9 17s; Comm. Bank of Australia, 15s 3d; Bank of Australasia, £S 4s : United Insurance, £10; Associated News, 18a 7£d; ditto, pref., 10s lOld; Iluddart Parker, £2 11s; Australian Gas, A, £7 Is; Tooths, £2 13s; Carlton Brewery, £3 4s; Woolworthe Ltd., £1 Is 7>d; Drug Houses of Australia, £1 2s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, £1 Os 3d ; Mark Foy, 18s 6d ; David Jones, £1 13s; Anthony Hordern 14s 3d; General Industries, 13s; ditto, pref’ £1 4s 6d • Morts Dock, 14s; Australian "Consolidated Industries, £1 9s; Wilcox Mofflin. 5s 9d; Henry Jones £2 8s; Colonial Sugar, £46; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 4-- 9d • ditto, jtref., £2 7s 6d; Mt. Morgan, IDs 3d • Mt. Lyell, £1 5s 3d ; Zinc Corporation, £4 8s 6d; Broken Ml Proprietary £2 15s 6d ; ditto, contr., £2 4s 3d ; North Broken Hill, £2 3s; Broken Hill South, £1 5s 5d ; Larut, 5s 2d : Emperor, 7s 10d; Taranaki Oil, 9s: Kaniern £1 13s 6d MELBOURNE, March 23. Rales on the Stock Exchange included :- Mt. Lyell, £1 5s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 14s 6d; British lobacco, £2 7s; Loloma, 19s Id; Emperor, 7s lid ; Mt. Lyell, £1 5s 3d; Woolworths, £1 Is 9d; Hume Pipe, pref., £1 5s 6d ; Herald and Weekly Times, £3; G. J. Coles £3 13s 9d; Conun. Bank of Australia, 15s 3d; Iluddart Parker, pref.. £1 93-
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt by _ returned soldier settlers in certain sections of the Roporoa district with the failure or the Department of Agriculture to release the promised report dealing with sou conditions at Rcporoa and particularly with the claim that the exceptionally high stock mortality in certain areas in the district lias been due to the hitherto unsuspected presence of deposits of arsenic in the soil and, drinking water used by tho cattle. j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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349LESS TRADING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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