COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2853, 18 August 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. ' , Yoataday's quotations for investment snares were as follow;— Buyers. Sellers. , r . £s. d.- £b. d. National Bank 5 7 0 — Well. Gas (£10) 14 10 0 - National Insurance 2 13 0 — S. British Insurance ... 4 19 6 5 1 6 Hucldart-Parker (ord.) ... 1 5 9 16 3 Union Steam (ord.) — 2 2 0 Union Steam (prof.) 110 — Well. "Woollen (ord.) 6 2 6 — Well. Woollen (preU 3 17 6 — Westport ■ Cotil 19 6 — Loyland-O'Brion 12 0 — N.Z. Con. Dental 119 — N.Z. Drug 2 7 0 — Wilson's Cement (pref.) — 16 0 Sliarlaud (ord.) 16 0 — Sharland (pref.) 16 0 — D.1'.0. (pref.) — 10 6 NEW COMPANIES. The "Mercantile Gazette" reports registration of tho following, new companies:— Hamua Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. Office, Alain Street, Ekelaliuna. Capital, £3000, divided into 3000 'shares of £1 each: Subscribers: Hamua—A.- E. Brown 70. P. Davies 50, J. B. Carruthors 20, A. H. Owen 60, J. B. Ferguson 15, Dennehy 10, It. Fobs 10. Objects: Dairying and incidental. Hicks and Bull, Ltd. Private oompany. Office, 102 ltidgway Street, Wanganui. Capital, £200(1, divided into 2000 shares of £1' each. Subscribers: Wancanul—T. Hicks 600,, E. Bull 700. T. L. Williams 100; Waitotara—W. .1. Ilicks 6CO. Objects: To carry on the business of land and stock agents, finance agents, auctioneers, etc. Tasman North Apple Lands Co., Ltd. Private company. Ofiice, 209 Manchester Street, Chrlstchnrch. Capital, £6000, divided into 12 shares of £500 each. Subscribers: Christchurchr-Pcter Hurcna 1, ,T. R. Brunt i, Elizabeth Pine {. L. W. Hargreaves 1, A. Ifander 4, W. M.'Allandyco },W. Firman 5, H. A. Adley J, J. 8. Wilson I*. J. Martin 1; Wellington—J. P. Bonrko 6, W. H. George 1, W. Quinn 1. Objects: To purchase land and carry on tho business of orchardists, etc. •

T. 0. Seed and Co., Ltd. Private company. Office. 37 Ridgvay Street, Wanganui. Capital, £3000, divided into 300 shares of £10 each. Subscribers: Wamgnnui—T. C •■Seed 275, Isabel Seed 25. Objects : To carry on the business of general provision, hardware, timber, machinery merchants, etc.

Wanganui Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Private company. Oißcc, Duncan Street, Wanganul. Capital. £1600, divided into 1600 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: A. Anderson 4CO, P. \E. Gtnn 400, H. Townsend 400, I). "Wilson 4CO. Objects: To acquire tho undertakings of A. Anderson, and Ginn and Wilson, of Wanganul, and to earn" on the manufacture of furniture, joinery, etc.

TherUleson, Ltd. Private company. Office, 122 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. Capital, £6000, divided into 6000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: AVanganui—W. :F. Tlicrkleson 2000'; Hawera—ll. D. F. Jaines 1000. T. H. Gillman 1000, J, B. MacDiarmid 2COO. Objects:' To acquire as a going concern the business now'carried on at Wanganui of .TherUleson and' Co., and to carry on tho business of house furnishing and general warehousemen.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES.' Messrs. Laery and Co.. Ltd., Allen Street, report .wholesale prices .as follow:—Fowls' wheat; prime,. ss. 3d. per bushel, medium ss. 2d. per bushel, ground £9 per ton; fowls' barley 4s. 3d. ;inr bushel, Australian Oape barley. s4. 9d. per bushel. JT.Z. Cape barley 4s. 3d. per.bushel; partridgo peas, 6s. 6d.. per' hushel; maize, feed, 55.. per bushel; chaff; oatslieaf, £510s. to 1 £6 ss. per ton; hay, clover. £5 ss. to £6 per ton; flour, in woks. £13 ss. per ton; oatmeal, £18 10s.. in 25's: bran, £5-ss. to £5 10s. per ton; pollard. £7 15s. to £5 per ton; potato seed, Early Hose £10 IDs. per ton, Beauty of Hebron £10 10s. per too. Northern Star £6 15s. per ton, Up-to-Date £7 os.'per ton, Gamekeepers £6 iss. per,ton; bacon (all best factory), sides Hid. per lb., rolls Is. OJd. per lb., hams Is. per lb., shoulders lOd. per lb.; cheeEe (factory), medium, lOd. per lb.: linseed nuts. 13s. per cwt.; linseed ground cake. 13s. ■ per cwt.: onions, Victorian Brown Spanish, £6 10s. to £7 30s. per tou; potatoes, white-skinned, table, £8 10s. to £9 per ton. Customs duty collected at tlio port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £:6C9 4s. sd. TALLOW SALES. S ; ' Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Eec. Augusi 17, 6.15 p.m.) London, August 16. , At. th\s tallow sales 456 caslt6 were offered, but brought qo bids. Quotations, nominally, for both mutton and beef: Finfe, 50s„ medium 465. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. " By Telegram—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 17, 10.55 p.m.) 'Sydney, August 17. Oats, Algerian, feeding, 2s. 6d„ 2s. 7d.; milling, 2s. 8d„ 2s. 9d.; Tasmanian, v-hite, 2s. ICd., 3s. Barley, 3s. 6d., 4s. Maize, 3s„ 4s. 3d.. • Potatoes, Tasmanians, £8, £9 10s. Onions, £4, £5. Adelaide, August 17. , Oats, Is.. 10d„ 2s. Barley, 4s. HIDES. Melbourne, August 17. Hides.—Fair supplies; lights and kips, unchanged-; heavies and others, dragging.