COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2778, 24 May 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

j--;;:' 4 INVESTMENT SHARES.' . .\Tbo.-jquotations for- investment alio-rea ■ yesterday were as under:— - • .. . . aikiUKo

I -:' .:' ■ Buyers. Bellers. E: r '...• ~. .. £s.d. £s.d. f.".-; Soat K.S.W. 3915 o ; — :. Bank N.Z. (£3 6«. Bd.) ...11 4 0 - ;• Bank N.Z. (£6 11a. 4d.) ... 17 5 0 - i-; Loan tuid Mercantile (ord.) 80 6 0 — i ' Well.. Invest. T. and A. ... 0.11 0 — f:.- Gear Meat. (J51j'V;......:...;... 4 7 0 — <■ ■tl?4: Shippins (ord:) SO 0 0 — r Huddart-Porhcr (ord.) ... — 1"5 0 ; . 'Union Steam (ord.). 112 6 1,13 0 f . Kai'apoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 15 (I — '.Well.' Woollen (ord.) 5 12 6 - ; Well. Woollen (pref.) ...... 311 0 — \ - Waipa Ooal 018 0 ■ - — j. ' tWestportrSfeokton 0 5 3 —, and Co. 4 12 0 — !•> N:Z. Oonsol.' Dental-........ 1 .1 6 — N:Z.. Drill,' 2 5 0 .: — ! Golden Bay ,Cement 116 — i ~*Oum dir. . i ~tEx div.

pi; Customs duty collected at tie port of •: Wellington yesterday amounted to. £7433 : la. I!d. j' A PEOUHAB PREDICAMENT, t>":•A. ratbor peculiar predicament has conJ fronted the Co-operative Assurance Co.. aa t'. or'result o£ Its efforts to. comply with the 1 war; precautions regulations requiring all companies to make Tetarns-of enemy share- ( holders or shareholders of enemy origin. t. Companies have power under the net to compel their shareholder© to make a de*. fclaration- o£, origin, / states the. Melbourne "Age" Many of.the shareholders of the. 2 company mentioned are domiciled in New Zealand,, and accordingly it dispatched a S ~ packdt of declaration forms to bo filled in j'v' by those i shareholders. But there is apS .parently '-ro-'obligation :, on a New. Zealand'. i. \ shareholder; to fill in the .form;, iahd it .is f' extremely improbable, therefore that , any <-of-!-fchem will jbe 'returned.! • Furthermore, c . the-Nrnv- 1 Zealand Government considered f . that.tW packet of forms was dutiable mat- :..:, ter,i.and ; .held it up. for duty at the rate » of 3d. per lb., in addition to primage of 1 I'. per'cent., in all 2s. 1 - A letter was sent to .v'Bydnoy asking for payment, and even i;'.-should .'shareholders desire to'comply: with tha-ieque'st of the company - the returns Bould .not • now bo received in time. ;■ .SOUTHER?? PRODUCE MARKETS. ■ .I'-liy' Telegraph-Press Association. |- ' " c .r'. . Christchurch, May 23. . The-wheat market is quiet, with » limit- • »d quantity offering. ; Pearl is in request, ; and any lines on the market readily find |: -.buyers at firmer rates.. Prime milling 1 •. .. wheat-is 6caico owing to such a large pro- . portion ibeing shrivelled'or damaged grain this'&aason. . -V ' . t • ;. > Oats.—The market is _firm in the south In oonscquence of\a large .sale, to the Govnniment and the fact that merchants are now_ purchasing' to fill forward contracts/ h There is practically nothing doing locally , owing to the short crop this season. I There"is a. scarcity of offerings of . potai:: toes:-at--handy 'stations, ■ and- only a few *- are-held' in store for forward; delivery;; £4 -V lCs..is 'offered, arid a'.'few/'sales have been "1' made at that figure.'.

■ Wise . dairymen will have their milking j machine, s overhauled at the end of this jP season, rather than at the beginning of next—idleness -begets rust and oompli- (' cations: Albert J. Parton will put'your ' • machine in spie and span order—expert [ work,-, reasonable charge!'. Albert J. ParStreet, Carterton.'—Advt.

I '■■/.- Nerorilias the demand for clear-headed' ieonstruefcive thinking in business been V Bo_ufgent jis it is right now. We are living' in a progressive age,. and must, take of all up-to-date methods.' It -; tion that money is' mado. to-day, "and by, t ' concentrating one's efforts on all detaijsj of our business we claim to be able to |; produco results-.for our many cream, I pliers.' ; We' want more ci;eam. -Can;you'; t; supply "us?-Further;particulars,. Wanga- | nui Fresh Food Co.—Advt. ' .iV j ; - i:' \ ' •>;• I.: Tho.soow.Bee,.which.wac stranded on tho V.,keSSh' ! "atPuhoi, has been'successfully re-' '. ifloatecWsays .the Auckland'.Star' 1 ). She was j , driven ashore during the south-east gales £ .which so seriously disorgaiiised shipping' [' on-the. coast a. short, time ago. '.