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Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

May 28, 1968

Page

4

Oils and Mines Lead Sydney Stock Market Rally

Oils and mines dominated trading on the Sydney Stock Exchange with shares rising to 171 pence and Vanderfield and Reid pushing to 180 before settling at 170. BHP led Melbourne with 23.10, while Hamersley climbed to 12.40. A Japanese contract worth about 11 million dollars boosted industrials as takeover speculation circulated and a late denial emerged.

Sydney Stock Exchange Vanderfield and Reid Reckitt and Colman Scotts Fievidens Was Melbourne BHP Hamersley Herbert Adams

London Market Data Snapshot From 12 Noon Report

London noon figures show share lines for BHP Lake View MT and East 4.3000 23.47 47e with prices around 7.70 to 12.69 in several listings. Compiled data includes Ample Murphyores London and Cra St Boulder North, along with indices 644 and 746 be and miscellaneous codes.

BHP Lake View WMC Hamarsley

Share options and commodity codes listed with prices

A dense OCR styled list shows various share options, commodity codes, months, and prices across multiple tickers including Yam Timor Gt Boulder Pioneer Cans Rutile BHP Matals Ex Aust Daval Planet Oil Oil Search and Mid-East cig. The snippet materials indicate trading notes, quantities and rates like 36 BHP 200 and $1.00 to $5.04 across items, but no coherent narrative or single event.

Timor Cleveland Woodside

Fragmented Ledger Fragments From Late Sales Room Notes

Partial OCR list shows a dense ledger of vendor names and figures with numerous misspellings. Readable items include Adel AWA Amal Chem Aust Gypsum Beak of NSW Brambles Brick ant Brit Tobacco forward Tad Burns Phi l Carlion Brew Cascade Brew Chamberlain Cleckheaton Co n crete Inds Courtaulds Cox Brost Coles GI CSR Commercial Bank CIG Como Foods CHI Consol Ora Courier references and scattered numbers suggesting prices or quantities. The fragmentary text implies a trades or stock sale ledger with many brand and company entries and numeric values.

Ee Herbert Adel Awa Amal Chemumpol APCM Assor Pulp Aval Kk Cement AMI Beak of Nsw Bell Bros BMI Boral Bradmill Brambles Como! Foods Consol Ora Courtaulds Cox Brost Custom Credit Cycloneia CAGA Oggies Coop Dodds Consol Dural Fiigrite

Magellan and Pacific group to explore for potash in WA

Magellan Petroleum and Sun Pacific plan an exploration program in Western Australia to test evaporite deposits. Mambare at the Atlantic base in the Shark Bay region, about 400 miles offshore, will be involved. A new high tensile structural steel being developed by BHP at Port Kembla could rival aluminium in cost and use for railway rolling stock and other applications.

Magellan Petroleum Sniral Pacific Western Australia Mambare Australia BHP Port Kembla

Australian Beef Markets Outlook with US and Japan Demand

Mr Anderson outlined a wide range of markets for Australian beef and veal exports. He noted 16 percent to Britain and about 34 percent to Japan, with roughly 52 percent of total US beef shipments entering the US market and Japanese consumption at about 0.125 head per year due to high domestic prices. He warned long term potential rests on expanding Australian carcass types while Japan’s demand grows only with price and policy shifts.

Anderson Britain Japan Ande Metropolis Joe Tan Wholesale Meat Co Lttd Ana So Iside Australia Washington

Caution Urged on Silver Valley Speculative Value

London reports warn buyers that Silver Valley shares carry very high risk despite impressive ore finds. The Financial Times notes reserves remain uncertain and that market valuation above £17 million may be speculative, though Tulloch district could yield gains if revived.

London Financial Times Silver Valley Silver Game Canada Cobalt Tulloch

Dairies face uncertain future as size and policy collide

Federal plans to spend 25 million to reconstruct the dairy industry collide with doubts about the viability of large dairies. A Montgomery warns that many Australian properties are uneconomic, with about 250 000 properties earning under 2 000 yearly. only a minority strong enough to contribute to national output. Directors of Rigneys Holdings accept an offer from Tjur inga Securities affecting their family shares but with no clear shareholder guidance.

Montgomery Australia Association Recen Rigneys Holdings Ltd Tjuringa Securities Ltd

ANZ Bank Outlook Signals Growth Amid Rain and Wheat Run

An ANZ Bank index shows production sliding while drought aided wheat prep, yet business optimism rebounds. Real GNP may rise about 5 percent this year and 8 to 10 percent in 1968 69 with rising spending and investment, while inflation risk remains modest as output grows. Official unemployment is estimated at 1.3 percent of the workforce.

ANZ Bank

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