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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 22, 1968
Page
8
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous company and commodity names with prices and symbols. It includes mining and metals references such as Planet Metals, Mt Isa, Ravensthorpe, Kamilaroi, and Tiess, alongside retailer names like Woolworths and Walton. The text features numerous figures, percentages, and product labels, resembling a market or stock listing page.
A dense OCR readout lists numerous company names, stock codes, prices, and percentages. Entries span banks, machinery, minerals, builders, and consumer firms with scattered figures like 16d, 46, 280, and 70, reflecting a trading room snapshot rather than a cohesive narrative.
Melbourne sharebrokers welcomed moves for lighter control over stock exchanges and broking after a Canberra decision by state and federal Attorneys General. They warned against rash director appointments while supporting clearer trust and audit safeguards. Acting chairman J Campbell Johnston urged measured changes and noted Victoria’s already tight controls from 1937.
OPTION BROKERS in omit call.
Perth area data at 5.35pm AEST shows Hamboo Creek 11S and OMA 337 with GMK 230 and Hamerstev 1480. Haorma Lik and Hill St Gold 142 appear alongside North Kalgurl 960 Ravensthorpe 27 ACP 49 Planet Ot 78 and Timor 148.
A garbled OCR listing many company and entity names with scattered figures appears to catalog late sales. The text includes varied items such as Adel Motor, Assoc Portland, Avel United, BHP, CSR, EZ Inustries, CGFA, Planet Geld, Santos, ARC Indiay, Dunlop II, and Interstate 30 with unclear values and dates.
The mineral exploration group VAM Ltd has completed the takeover of Surveys and Market Research and Holdings Ltd, a small listed Sydney company. VAM plans to focus future activities on exploration and prospecting minerals.
May instalment balances for non retail finance businesses on retail sales stood at 1,220 million, up 11.3 percent from May 1967. Seasonally adjusted May 1968 total reached 1,227 million, with April 1,212.4 million and March 1,201.3 million. The May 1968 preliminary figure was issued by the Statistics Bureau yesterday.
Western Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Mataafa Faumtina Muliwu, in Tokyo on a goodwill visit, discusses the world record trade gap with Japan. He notes imports around 7,000,000 and exports about 1,500,000 while stressing the adverse balance of payments, and meets Prime Minister Sato and ministers Miki Nishimura.
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