COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2634, 3 December 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. In the investment market yesterday, thero were registered sales of Bank of New Zealand, new, at £16, lCs., end Union Steam, ordinary, at 255. 3d. The Quotations were as follow:— a Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ 3. d. National Bank 5 0 0 5 2 6 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd.... — 7 5 ( Napier Gas (£5) — 9 0 fl South British Insurance 4 14 0 — N.Z. Shipping (ord.) — 18 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 4 19 6 — Well. Woollen (pref; 3 6 6 — Taupiri Ccal — 015 6 West-port Coal — 18 3 Golden Bay Cement — 10 3 BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. Tho usual half-yearly meeting of eharcholders of the Bank of New Zealand will be, held-at the banking house at 11 o'clock this morniug. The meetiug is held in accordance with the bank's articles, hut no m-couuts will bo submitted. Tho chairman will no doubt, as usual, have something interesting to €ay on the financial poslton of New Zealand at the present time, and the economic and industrial prospects. Tho. amendment of the Deed of Settlement, which was passed at & special meeting, will be submitted for confirmation to-day. WHOLESALE PIIODUCE PRICES. ■ jreesrs. Laesy and Co., Ltd.. Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follow:—Fowls' wheat, ss. 6d. to ss. &d.; fowls' barley, 55.; Cape barley, ss. 6d.; feed peas, prime, se. 6a.; good, ss.' 3d.; maize, ss. to ss. 3d., seed maize, <65.; oatensfcaf chaff, old, £8 to £8 IDs., new £6 15s. to £7; hay, £5 to £7; flour, Jn sacks, £12 153.; oatmeal, £18 to £19; brau, £5 10s. to £5 155.; pollard, £8 155.; rice pollard, £7; onions, £7 10s. to £B 10s.; potatoes, new, .£9 to £11; bacon, sides lid., rolls Js., Jiamß Is., shoulders BJd.; cheese, medium, Bid>; linseed meal, £19 10s.; ground linseed, £13 10s. Customs duty collected At tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £1466 14s. METAL MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Itec. December 2, 7.40 p.m.) London, December 1. ' Copper.—Supplied* 32.499 tons; deliveries, 36,339 tons; stocks, 15,045 tons; afloat, 3500 tons; risible, 26,068 tons. Spelter.—On spot, £98 per ton; future delivery, £88. TALLOW SALES. At the tallow sales 880 casks were offered and 841 sold. Mutton, fine, 525. 9d.; medium, 505.; beef, fine, 525. 3d.; medium, 5Cq. Stocks, 7558 tons; imports, 1764; deliveries, 5309. . ; The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenqy Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London .house under, date December I:—We Quote present'spot values for tho following description©;— Fine mutton, £2 12s. 9d. per cwt.; good beef, £fc"ll8, 6d.| mixed, £2 7s. The market is firm. | RABBITSKINS. . | I At tho labbitskins sales 2000 bundles 'were offered. There was a good demand, | and most of the lots sold—Australian at a penny advance, furriers' sorts 2d.,' New I j Zealands Id. to 2d., furriers' sorts 4d. , ! WHEAT. (Rec. December 2, 8.5 p.m.) ! London, December 1. Wheat—Chicago December , options 106J cents to 104g cents; May options, 1083 cents to 107 3-8. cents. The market is rather nervous owing to uncertainty regarding. Btocks from North America. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKET. (Rec. December 8.5 p.m.) Sydney, December 2. Oats, American 3s. to 3s. 6d., Tasmanian, white 3e. 6d.; maize. South African, ss. 10d., t0.65.; barley, malting, 45.; potatoes, Tasmanian, old £14, new £20, American £14 to £15; onion's, Victorian old £4 to £5 10s., new £5. to £6. Adelaide, December 2. Flour, £12 to £12 lOs.j bran, ll£d. to Is.; pollard, Is. 5d.; oate, 2s. 3d. During the past throe days over 300 bales of wool have been forwarded to Wellington from the Featlierston. district. The tally recorded by Mr. M. B. Tait, as consignor on behalf of settlers in the Lower Valley, since the beginning of November,' shows that 13,300 bales liave been dispatched. Never has the demand for clear-headed constructive thinking in business been so 'urgent as it is right now. We nre living in a progressive age, and must talc* ndvantgae of all up-to-daite methods. It is in savings from waste of any description that money is mads to-day, and by concentrating one's efforts on all details of our business, we claim to be able to produce results for our many cream suppliers. We want more cream. Can yon supply us? Further particulars, Wanga nui Fresh Food Co.—Advt.