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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18087, 7 August 1936, Page 8

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INDUSTRIALS QUIET .AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKETS SYDNEY, August 5. On the Sydney Stock, r.xchango today 's investment market continued to slacken, although the turnover wit.-, fairly heavy. Commonwealth bonds were steady.

Sales; Bank of New South Wales, £33 7s fid; Bunk of New Zealand, 4o» 3d; Colonial Sugar, £4.', os; Burns Philp, 73s fid; Australian Cits, B, £7 15s.

British Tobacco, 40s fid; Tooths, 53s fid; Tookeys, 32s fid; G. J. Coles, 80s; Goldsbrough Mort, 325; Wilcox Mofflin, 12s, Henry Jones, 42s fid; Fairymcau Sugar, 33s 3d; Electrolytic Zinc, 41s fid; Lustre, 24s fid; Cash Orders, 2fis fid; Claude Neon, 50s fid; Australian Drug, 14s; Sargents, 275; 'Edwards Dunlop, 4fis; Hackshalls, Jos fid; Permanent Trustee, £5 Is; Wunderlich, 21s 3d.

Wool worths, Ltd., ordinary, buyei £5 10s fid, sellers £5 11s fid; Wooiworths (New Zealand), buyer £5, seller £5 10s.

Mt. Morgan, 14s 3d; ML Lyell, 27s fid; Broken llill Proprietary, 72s fid; Kuala Hamper Tin, 14s 3d; Lady Sheaton, 2s Id.

Morning sales included: Commonwealth bonds, 3 3-S p.c. (1940), £95 2s fid; 4 p.c. (1941), £lOl 12s fid; 4 p.c. (1944), £lO2 2s fid; 4 p.c. (1950), £lO2 Is 3d; 4 p.c. (1957), £IOO os; Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, £2O fis; Goldsbrough Mort, 325; Meggitts, 295. MELBOURNE, August 5.

On the Melbourne Stock Exchange to-day Commonwealth bonds were steady. Industrials were quiet, bill showed a better tone. Mining issues were irregular. Sales: Commercial Bank of Australia, 18s Sd; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7; Howard Smith, 18s lOd; British Tobacco, 40s fid: Carlton Brewery, 58s; G. -L Coles, 79s fid; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 2fis fid; Australian Glass, 92<: Dunlop-Perdriau, 18s 4d; ditto, prof., 34s fid; Goldsbrough Mort 32s 3d. Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 3d; Mt. Diorgan, 14s;' Mt. Lyell, 27s fid; Broken Hill Proprietary, 72s fid; North Broken Hill, £8 19s; Zinc, Corporation, 82s; Emperor, 14s fid. General Motors, 24s fid; Diver, 34s 44d; United Provisions, 13s fid; Herald and Times, 68s 3d; Melbourne Electric Stock, 20s. HASTINGS STOCK SALE LITLE CHANGE IN VALUES Little change occurred in values at the Hastings stock sale on Wednesday. Woolly hoggets predominated in the store sheep section. Extra good p we hoggets made to 51s 6d; wether hoggets, to 22s 6d; breeding ewes, heavy, in lamb, to 26s 6d. Fat sheep values showed little change except for interior ewes, which vote easier, butchers holding supplies eased competition. Pukeknva heavy prime ev.es

topped the market at. 295. other lighter prime sorts, 23s 8d to 25s ICd ; light. IPs to 225: best wethers made to -iks 6d : prime two-tootlis sold readily. The store cattle yarding comprised mainly slut ion cows m calf, which met with a satisfactory sale, cows running with I’.A. bulls midiing £6 6d. COWS AT £lO A HEAD GISBORNE CONSIGNMENT Fat cows from Gisborne realised £lO a head in the Westfield stock sale on Wednesday. This line was from Mr. A. P. Pilincr. and Hie price was one ol the best in the sale, the highest figure being £lO 17s 6(1 for one beast.