AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKET

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKET

A STRONG TONE. SYDNEY, Aug. 9. Although the turnover on the Stock Exchange was restricted to-day owing to the death of a member, the market was strong for general investments and Barrier shares. Sales. —Bank of New South Wales, £34 15s;- Colonial Sugar, £4B 2s 6d; Mcrcan- ! tile Mutual Insurance, 32s 6d; G. J. Coles, ! £5 Is; Australian Glass, 965; Amalgamated! Zinc, 12s 2d; Commonwealth Wool, 20s 6d; Sargents, 33s 6d; Edwards Dunlop, 475; Waldas Shoos, 17s 3d; United Provisions, 10s 7d; Wunderlich, 22s 6d; Felt and Textiles, 41s 6d; Tankmans, 70s; Electrolytic Zinc, 61s 9d; ditlo, prof. 62s 9d; Mount Morgan, New Zealand delivery, 12s 4d, 12s sd; Mount Lyell, New Zealand delivery, 45s 9d; South Broken Hill, 52s 6d; North Broken Hill, 81s 6d; Zinc Corporation, £8 Is 6d; Larut Tin, 18s 10jd. MELBOURNE. Aug. 9. On ihe Melbourne Stock Exchange a featuro of the market to-day wa>3 good buying of Cox Bros, and Dunlops at higher level?. Other sections of the market wero quiet. There was a good inquiry for Barriers, especially South. Zinc Corporation were in demand on a rumour of share-splitting. Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 18s 4d; National Bank, £5 paid, £7 6s; British Tobacco, 535; G. J. Coles, £5 Is; Drug Houses, 265; Australian Iron and Steel, prof., 27s 6d; Australian Glass, 96s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 24s 7d; General Motors, 25s 3d; Hume Pipe, 20s lid; Cox Bros.. 23s 6d; Kauri Timber, 22s 9d; Felt and Textiles, 425; Sulphide Corporation, 17s Id; Electrolytic Zinc, 61s 6d; ditto, prof., 62s 9d; Mt. Lyell. 465; Broken Hill Proprietary, 85s 3d; North Broken Hill, 81s 6d; Broken Hill South, 52s 9d; Zinc Corporation, £8 Is 6d: Tonkah Harbour, 23s 6d; Loloma, 22s 6d.