HEAVY SELLING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 12

HEAVY SELLING

Australian Share Markets PRICES MARKED DOWN < By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copy right. (Received March 20, 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 20. Share prices were marked down throughout the market on the Sydney Stock Exchange today because of the international uneasiness. The morning and noon calls were quiet but there was heavy selling in the afternoon, all mostly at lower rates. Sales included :—

Morning sales ineluded: (Commonwealth bonds, 3 7-8 per cent., 1954. £101; 4 per cent.. 1941. £lO2/1/3; 1959. £lO3 17/6: Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney. £2O/3/-; Tooheys Brewery, 30/-: Tooths Brewery, 52/6; Australian Gas, A. £7/1/-; Associated Newspapers. 19/-; British Tobacco, 47/3: Broken Hill Proprietary, 54/3; Cash Orders. 15/6; Colonial Sugar. £,46/5/-. MELBOURNE, March 20. The Stock Exchange was closed today.

£ s. d. Bank of New South Wales . 29 0 0 Commercial Bank of Sydney 20 0 0 Commercial Bank of Australia 0 J u Associated News 0 18 9 Australian Gas, A I 0 0 Ditto B 7 0 0 British Tobacco 0 Tooths 1 1 3 G. J. Coles ' > 13 • > Wool wort Its Ltd I 1 David Jones 1 13 6 Anthony Hordern 0 14 Sled ma ns 0 12 0 Kondos 1 7 6 0 14 0 Hume Pipe 0 19 3 u W .Atkins 1 W. Adams 0 14 4 Kelt and Textiles 1 10 6 Sargents I 8 6 W. R. Carpenter 2 1 0 Standard Cement 1 0 9 Peters 11 6 Mauri Bros 3 ? 0 W. H. Soul 4 8 0 Wileox Moffilin ■ 0 6 Colonial Sugar 46 □ 0 Fairymead Sugar 1 10 0 Electrolytic Zine 2 0 Ditto, pref 2 6 3 Mount Morgan 0 9 10 Mount Lyell 1 4 6 Zine Corporation 4 8 0 Broken Hill Proprietary ... 13 9 Ditto, conlr — 6 North Broken Hill 2 6 Broken Hill South 1 0 Rawang Tin 0 9 Placer Development 0 • > 11 A rah ura 1 6 0 Taranaki Oil 0 8 9 Kanieri 1 11 0