AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES.

CAUTION THE KEYNOTE. SYDNEY, June 8. Caution was the keynote on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day and business contracted appreciably. Barriers displayed some tendency to drift, but there was some activity in gold shares. Sales included:— '.tank of New South Wales, .£2B 18s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l9 2s; Hank of Australasia. £8 15s; Queensland National Bank, £4 14s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £45 7s 6d: Alillaqiiin Sugar, £2 Os 9d; Fairymead Sugar, £1 16s 9<l; New Zealand Insurance, £2 7s 9<li Howard Smith. N.Z. delivery, 19s 9d; Burns. Pliilp, £2 12s 3d: Australian Gas. A, old, £7 4s 6d ; British Tobacco, £2 8s 3d. prof. £1 8s Gd; Australasian Paper, £1 9s 6d: Tooth and Co., £2 12? 6d; Toohevs, Bid., £1 9s; G. J. Coles, £3 12s 6(1, N.Z. delivery £3 12s 6d: Woolworl hs. Ltd., I £1 2s 3(1; Drug Houses, £1 2s 6d; Hoyts. A prof., N.Z. delivery, 18s 7hl; General Industries, • 19s 6d ; Anthony Ilordern, 14s I 3d; Kami os Cement, £1 Gs 9d, oonl.r. 15s; William Adams, 15s 6cl; Fell and Textiles, £1 10s 7d; Mount, Morgan, 10- 6d: Electrolytic. Zinc. £2 8s 3d. prof., N.Z. delivery, i £2 11s 6d: Broken Hill Proprietary. £3 3s! 3d; North Broken Hill. £2 6s 6d; Broken Hill South. £1 6s 6d: Placer Development, £3 11s; Emperor Gold. 9s Bd. 'MELBOURNE. June 8. Sales on the Melbourne Slock Exchange' to-dav included:—National Bank. £5 paid, £6 2s; Australian Con. Industries, £1 16s; 1 G. J. Coles, ex rights. £3 12s 6d: Electrolytic Zinc, prrf., £2 11s 6d; Mount Lyoll, £1 6s 6H: Emperor Gold, 9s 8d; Broken Hill South, £1 7s; North Broken llill, £2 6s 6d. It was decided, at the annual meeting of the Now Zealand Milking Shorthorn Association, at, tho Waikato Show, (o hold IBe next annual meeting in Palmerston North.