AUSTRALIAN SHARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN SHARES

ADVANCES RECORDED

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 10. .

; .On the Sydney Stock-Exchange.to-day investments were generally strong. Numerous advances were recorded in high-class shares. Banking shares were steady. ' , Sales.-—Colonial Sugar, £43 ss; Bank of New South Wales, £33 ss; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20 8s; Associated News, pret, 23s 9d; Tooth's Brewery, 53s 6d; Tooheys, 33s 6d; Drug Houses, 30s 4Ad; Wilcox Mofflin, 12s lid; Greater "J. D/ Williams, 7s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 9d; Farmers,, 31s 9d; David Jones, 47s 3d; Anthony Hordern, 19s; Lustre Hosiery, 24s 9d; General Industries, 19s 3d; General Industries, pref., 23s 9d; North Broken Hill, £9; Zinc Corporation, 81s. 3d,\Larut Tin, 11s 6d; Placer Development, £5;. Tongkah Harbour Tin, 17s. MELBOURNE, August 10. On the Melbourne Stock Exchange today Commonwealth bonds and industrials were steady. There was a continued strong demand for Mount Lyells. Gold shares were easier. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 18s 4d; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7; ditto, £10 paid, £14; British Tobacco, 40s 3d; G. J. Coles, 81s; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 265; Australian Glass, 92s 9d; Dunlop-Perdriau, ord., 18s 8d; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., 445; Mount Morgan, 14s; Mount Lyell, 30s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 745; Broken South, £5 14s; General Motors, 25s 6d; .'.'Eferald and Weekly Times,?. 695; Kauri Timber, 25s 3d; Myer, 34s lOJd; iYarra-Falls, 40s;-. United Provisions, (13s 6d. ' ...... .;