COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2598, 21 October 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Tlioro were no transactions in investment shares yesterday. The quotations wcro as follow:— ■ Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank N.Z.'(£3 6s. Bd.) ... 10 1 6 - . Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.)... - 16 6 0 Union Bank 62 0 0 Loan & Mercantile (ord.) 79 0 0' i~Well. Invest. T. and A. 0 10.10 -■ Well. Trust,' Loan, Ltd. - 7 8 6 Well. Dep. and Mort — 0 8 0 Napier Gas (£5) - — 9 0 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 16 2 0 Well. Gas (pref.) - '00 National Insurance 2 4 6 -- Christchurch Meat — 16 5 0 Weil. Meat Export (£5) - 6 0 0 Weii. Ex. (£2l2s. 6d.) — 2 17 0 Union Steam (ord.) — 13 9 Union Steam (pref.) 10 3 — Well.. Woollen (pref.) ... 3 6 0 . — Westport Coal — 18 9 Leyland-O'Brien 12 3 Manning and Co 417 6 4 18 6 N.Z. Drug - 2 5 0 Ward ord Co 5 5 0 — Whitcombe and Tombs ... ,5 15 0 — W.F.C.A. (£1) 110 Auckland Trams 10 9 — Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday- amounted to £3379 14s.'8d. \ . LONDON WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—l'rosa As«m-iation—Copyright London, October, 19.The Port of London Authority has made 1 special arrangements to expedite the handling of wool, and it is believed this will xelevc the congestion. Woolbrokrs have deeded not to hold sales on Mondays. BRISBANE WOOL SALES. Brisbane, October 20. At the wool sales 19,500 bales were catalogued. Good greasy merino were 25 to 5 per centum, and. medium and heavy 7J per centum lower, and crossbreds were 10 to 20 per centum higher than at the September sales.