COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2773, 17 May 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

- INVESTMENT SHARES. ■TeFterday's Quotations for investment shares were as under:— .' Buyers. -Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank : 6 7 6 — • ■Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... — ' 11 5 0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.).... 17 4 0 — Union Bank .-. '. 65 0 0 — Equitable-Building 9 15 0 ■ — ■ Well. Dep. and llort. .....— 0' 8 6 Gisborne Gas 1 13 6 —' Napier Gas. (£10) 15 10 0 — Napier Gas (£5) 8 5 0 — Well. Gas (£10) 14 10 0 — Well. Gas (pref.) : 019 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 4 5' 0 — Well. Meat Export (£4)... 55 0 ; - Well. Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.)- 3 0 0 - N.fc. snipping (ord.) 20 0 0 ' -' Union Steam (ord.) — 114 3 Union Steam (pref.)' 110 — HuddarWarker (ord.) ... — 16 0 .Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 10 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) ... 510 0 — Well. Woollen (pref.) ...... 3 10 6 - W-aipa Goal '■••— 0 18 6 Westport Coal -.. 110 4 — N.Z. Conaol. Dental 116 — N.Z. Drug 2 5 0' — Golden Bay Cement 113 — Bharland (ord.) 16 0 — Sharland (pref.) 16 0 — Customs duty collected at tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2984, - WHOLESALE PBODUCE PRICES. Messrs. Lacry and Co., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows:—Fowls' wheat, prime ss. 4d. ; fowls' barley, 4s. 3d.; Cape barley, 45.'9 d.; partridge peas, 6s. Bd.; maize, feed, ss. 3d.; oatensheaf chaff, £6; clover hay, £6 10b.; flour, in sacks, £13 13s. per ton; oatmeal, 25's, £19 per ton; bran, £5 7s. 6d.; pollard, £8 55.; baoon. sides Is., rolls Is. Id., bams Is. Id., shoulders 10d.; cheese; medium, BJd.; linseed nuta, 135.'6 d.; nco pollatd, £7: ouions„£s; potatoes, £7.

■•■■ SOUTHERN MARKETS. By Telegraph-Press Association. .... Chrlstchurch, May 16. A fair amount of wheat is offering, and several large linos have been placed on tho market during the post few days from the Methven district. -A lino of 10,000 busnels of Tuscan, Hunter's, and pearl, but mostly Tuscan hands'at 4s. Id. on trucks. Another line of about HCo* sacks, in almost equal'proportions of the same varieties, at 4s. 3d. There is fair inquiry for wheat from'the North Island, and several sales have been made. . . ..Thoro is practically' no business doing in oats,. Southland being drawn upon tor supplies. ' ■ The seed potato. market, is quiet; there arc few offering, with no change in price. Later dug. potatoes are turning out better •in condition than those'.placed' on the market earlier, and are in better order for ißhipping: . .■..'.