COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES 110.YDS IX DEMAND (Hire. Tel. ('opyrifjhl—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Sept. 27. On the Sydney Stock Exchange, dealings in industrial and mining shares were on a small scale to-day. Commonwealth bonds are commanding most attention, bank shares being neglected. Sales included: —Colonial Sugar, £44 17s Gd; Mercantile Mutual Insurance. £1 9s 3d; Howard Smith, £1 Os Gd; Burns, Philp, £2 10s 9d; Tooth and Company, £2 8s Gd; Tooheys. Limited, £1 Os 9d; G. J, Coles, £3 Gs 3d; Woolworths, Limited, £1 Os Gd; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 13s Gd, Australian Consolidated Industries, rights, 4s Gd; W. Atkins, £1 Os 9d; William Adams, 12s Gd; Cash Orders, 14s Gd; Fell and Textiles, £1 10s Gd ; Standard Cement, £1; Peters Ice, £2 13.-?;

Henry Jones, £2 12s 9d; Fairymead I Sugar, £1 14s; Mount Lyell, £1 7s 7a; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 7s; North Broken Hill, £2 7s Id; South Broken j Hill, £1 8s Id; Kuala Kampar, lGs 9d; J Loloma, £1 2s 9d.

Morning sales included; Commonwealth Bonds, 3 per cent, 1948, £93 11s 3d- 3g per cent, 1949, £9O ss; 3} I per cent, 1943, £9B 7.s Gd; 33 per cent,

1942, £100; 33 per cent, 1949, £99 ss; 3;] per cent, 1951, £9B ss; 38 per cent, 1947. £9B 8s 9d; 3J- per cent, 1954, £9B 1 ss; 38 per cent, 1955, £99 7s 6d; 4 per cent, 1941, £lOl ss; 4 per cent, 1944, | j-.lui lus; 4 per cent, 1950, £IOO 2s Gd; 4 per cent, 1953, £IOO ss; 4 p n r 1957, £IOO 12s Gd; 4 per cent, 1959, £lOl ss; Australian Gas “A,” £6 17s Gd; Tooth’s Brewery, 48s Gd; Anthony Hordern, 12s 8d; Australian Consoii- ! dated Industries, 33s 9d; Broken Hill i Proprietary, G7s Gd; Electrolytic Zinc, 545.’ i Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exi change to-day included:—Commercial 1 Bank of Australia, 14s 4d; Australian . Consolidated Industries, £1 13s sd; ! I Australian Consolidated Industries, | rights, 4s 2d; Goldsbrough Mort., £1 j 10s; Cox Bros., 8s 3d; Howard Smith, : £1 Os 8d; Imperial Chemicals, pref., £1 0s Gd; Henry Jones, £2 12s 6d; Drug Houses of Australia, £1 4s 6d; Union Bank, £6 12s; Electrolytic Zinc, £2 13s 9d. j I CLEARING SALE K A i TAB ATARI AUCTION There was a strong inquiry for cows ot any class at the clearing sale conducted by Messrs. Common, Shelton and Company, Limited, yesterday on account of Mr. G. Law- 1 rence, Kaitaratahi, the auction at-

tracting a large attendance. The herd of Jersey cows and heifers was backward in condition owing to the shortage of feed, but a good clearance was made. The pigs offered changed hands at satisfactory values.

The average price for the 26 cows and heifers sold was £7 11s. The values ranged from £5 for heifers up to £l9 for a good type of dairy cow, which had come into profit 10 days previously. Sows made from £2 to £2 10s and w.eaner pigs from 15s Gd to 18s. Farm implements were keenly competed for.