AUSTRALIAN SHARES
TREND OF. MARKETS
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 25. Business on the Sydney Stock Exchange ceased at the noon call today to enable members to take part in the annual cricket match. The volume ol trading at the early calls was heavy. Toohey's Brewery shares responded to the announcement of a new issue and a higher dividend. Base metals shares maintained a firm tone. Sales: Bank of New South Wales, ex div., £37 12s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £43 7s 6d; Associated Newspapers, 24s 4£d; ditto, pref., 23s 7id; Huddart Parker, 39s 6d. Burns, Philp, 81s; British Tobacco, 52s 3d; Tooth's Brewery, 57s 6d; Toohey's, 37s . 4£d; Caiiton Brewery, 665; Drug Houses, 29s 9d. I Australian Glass, 93s 6d; Goldsbrough Mort, 38s 3d; Winchcombe, Carson, 37s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc, 63s 9d; W. H. Soul, 85s; Newbold' Brick, 36s 3d; Cement Mortars, 12s 6d; Producers and General, rights, sd; Goodyear, pref., 31s 6d; Kandos Cement/ 24s 9d; Gordon and Gotch, 51s 9d: Lustre Hosiery, 20s 6d. Broken Hill Proprietary, 89s; new issue, 76s 9d; North Broken Hill, 87s 6d; Broken Hill South, 54s 9d; Mount Lyell, 535; Kuala Kampar Tin, ex div., 245; Rawang Tin, 13s 3d; Loloma, 23s 4£d; Tanah Biji Tin, 24s 9d; Tavua, 7d. MELBOURNE, February 25. On the Melbourne Stock Exchange today the market was generally steady. After heavy selling yesterday today's turnover was considerably reduced. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 19s 6d; E.S. and A: Bank, £6 10s; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7 17s; ditto, £10 paid, £15 17s; Adelaid Steam, 32s 6d. ' ' Howard Smith, 24s 6d; Carlton Brewery, 65s 9d; Coles, £5 11s; Drug Houses, 29s 6d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 19s; ditto, pref., 355. Electrolytic Zinc, 62s 9d; ditto, pref., 635; Mount Morgan,' 18s 6d; Mount Lyell, 535; Broken Hill Proprietary, 88s 6d; Broken Hill South, 54s 6d; North Broken Hill, 88s 6d; Emperor, 19s sd; Loloma, 23s 6d. General Motors, 24s 6d; Hume Pipe. 21s 6d; Yarra Falls, 425.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 12
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325AUSTRALIAN SHARES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 12
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