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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 12

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SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE (United Presß Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, sth April. Tho Sydney Stock Exchange reopened to-day. Great activity was displayed in the investment and mining sections. Values, with few exceptions, were distinctly on the up-grade. Commonwealth bonds registered all-round gains. Tm| shares held up in the lace of a decline in the price of the metal. Banks remained steady. | Commonwealth bonds, 4 per cent., 1938 £lO4 13s 9d, £lO4 17s 6d; 1941, £lO5 7s 6d, £lO5 12s 6d ; 1944, £lO7 2s 6d £lO7 ss; 1947, £lO5 12s 6d; 1950, £lO6 10s; 1953, £lO6 17s 6d, £lO7 2s 6d; 1955, £lO7 7s 6d; 1957, £l08;-1959, £IOB ss; 1961, £lO7 7s 6d. _ | Sales. —Bank of New South Wales, £34 15s; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £18; Union Bank, £lO ss; Colonial Sugar, £65 10s; Australian Provincial Assurance, 10s 3d. Anthony Hordern, 16s, 15s 10^d; Associated News, 22s 9d; ditto, pref., 23s 6d; Burns, Pliilp, 575; Australian Gas, A, £7 18s 6d; British Tobacco, ex dividend, 37s 9d ; Tootii’s Brewery, 43s 6d, 43s 3d; Toohey’s, 27s 9d. t Colonial Sugar, £65 15s; Dunlop-Per-driau, pref., ex dividend, 345; Electrolytic Zinc, 26s 9d ; ditto, pref., 33s 10J,d ; Winchcombe Carson, 29s 6d; Wilcox Mofflin, 14s 2d; Lustre Hosiery, 24s 3d; Fairvmead Sugar, 345; David Jones, 41s;' Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 20s 9d; Hume Pipe, 13s lOd. Broken Hill Proprietary, 465; Mount Morgan, 20s Bulolo Deposits, 2s 3d ; Kuala Kampar Tin, 16s; Malim Navvar, 16s 6d ; Rawang 8s lid. SYDNEY, 6th April. Stock Exchange sales included: — Bonds, 4 per cent., 1938 £lO4 18s 9d, 1950 £lO6 15s, £lO6 17s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £34 15s; New Zealand Insurance, 59s 6d; Toohey’s, 27s 9d; Tooth’s, 43s 3d; Associated News, 22s 9d (pref.), 23s 6d ;Broken Hill, 465; Lustre, 24s 3d; Meggitt’s, 21s; Winchcombe 29s 6d. MELBOURNE, sth April. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange included : —Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £6 9s; Goldsbrough Moit, 34s 3d; Taranaki Oil, Is Bd. DAIRY MARKETS LONDON, sth April. The butter market is quiet. Danish, , 82s per cwt.; choicest salted New Zea- ' land, 72s to 735; Australian, 71s to 725; | unsalted butter quotations are the same, j The cheese market continues slow. New Zealand white and coloured, 43s 6d to 44s per cwt; Australia coloured, 42s to 42s 6d. TOPMAKERS’ ATTITUDE FIRM BRADFORD, sth April. There is insufficient business doing in the tops market to test prices, but the attitude of topmakers is firm. DOLLAR IMPROVES LONDON, sth April. Sterling exchange, London on New York, is dollars. PRICE OF GOLD FIRMER LONDON, sth April. The price of gold is 134 s B£d per fine ounce. FRANC AND STERLING LONDON, sth April, Sterling exchange in Paris, francs. BEET SUGAR LONDON, sth April. Beet sugar, May delivery, is quoted at 4s 7|d per cwt. PRICE OF SILVER British Official Wireless) RUGBY, sth April. Silver, spot, 20d per oz.; forward, 20 l-16d per oz. DOMINION RUBBER CROP (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, sth April. The secretary of the Dominion Rubber. Company has received a cablegram advising that the crop of rubber harvested for March was 42,0001 b.