AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20057, 2 October 1939, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES

LITTLE. INTEREST SHOWN (JSlec. To). Copyright — United Press Assn ) SYDNEY, Sept. 29. There was an almost complete lack of interest in either buying or selling on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day. What business was done was round late rates. The exchange will be closed on Monday for the celebration of the Eight-Hour Day holiday. Sales included: —Colonial Sugar, £44 17s Gd ; Australian Gas “A,” £6 17s Cd; British Tobacco, £2 4s Cd; Tooth and Company, £2 !ls Gd; G. J. Coles, £3 Gs 9d; Woolworths, Limited, £1 Os 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 13s 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, rights, 4s Gd; W. Atkins, £1 Os 9d; Sargents, £1 Gs Gd; W. R. Carpenter, £2 Is; Goldsbrough Mort, £1 9s; Millacjuin Sugar, £2 2s; Fairymead Sugar, £1 13s lOd; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., £2 Tss 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 7s 3d; North Broken Hill, £2 7s Gd; Broken Hill South, £1 8s Id; Larut Tin, 7s 3d; Emperor Mines, 9s 7d. Morning sales included: —Commonwealth Bonds, 3 p.c., 1948, £93 11s 3d; 4 p.c., 1941, £lOl ss; 4 p.c., 1957, £IOO 15s; Tooth and Company, 48s Gd; Anthony Hordern, 12s 9d; Australian Consolidated Industries, 33s lOJd;

British Tobacco, 44s Cd; Broken Hill Proprietary, G7s 3d. Sales on the Melbourne Stock Exchange to-day included:—Commercial Bank of Australia, 14s 3d; Australian Cement, £1 14s; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 13s Gd; (Australian Consolidated Industries, rights, 4s 4d; British Tobacco, £2 4s Gd; Cox Bros., 8s 3d; G. J. Coles, £3 6s : Howard Smith, £1 Os Gd; Imperial Chemicals, pref., £1 Os Cd; Dunlop-Perdriau, pref., £1 10s Gd: Emperor Mines, 9s Gd; Mount Lye 1.1, £1 9s 3d: Mount Morgan, 9s; ELclrolytic Zinc, pref., £2 15s 3d; North Broken Hill, £2 7s; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 7s.