COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. ■ Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:—

WHOLESALE' PfiODUOE PRICES. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows:—Fowlb' wheat, prime, ss. 3d. bushel; /owls'.wheat, medium, ss. 2d. bushel; fowls' barley, 36.9 d. bushel; N.Z. Capo barley, 3a. 9d. bushel; Yiotorian Cape burioy, seed 4s. 9d. bushel; partridge peas, 6a. 6d. bushel; maize, foed, 4s. 9d. to ss. bushel; chaff, oat sheaf, £6 to £6 106. ton; hay, clover, £5 ss. to £6 ton; flour, in sack, £13 15s. ton; oatmeal, £18 ton; bran, £4 15s. to £5 ton; pollard, £7 10s. to £8 ton; pig meal, £6 106. ton; potato seed: Breezes' Prolific, £7 ton; Northern Star, £6 15s. ton; Up-to-Bate, £7 ss. ton; Gamekeepers, £6 15s. ton; bacon (all best faotory), sides, Hid. per lb., rolls Is. OJd. per lb., hams Is. per lb., shoulders lOd. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium, lOd. per lb.; linseed oil meal, £12 10s. ton; linseed nuts, £12 10s. ton; linseed ground cake, £12 10s. ton; onions, Victortan repioked, £7 10s. ton; potatoes, whiteskinned table, southern, £9 to ,£9 10s. ton. All poultry is in very good demand. Hens, 4s. to 6s. 6d. per pair; cockerelß, ss. to Bs.; duoks,,Pekin and Aylesbury, Bs. to 9s. per pair; Indian Runners, ss. to 65.; turkeys, gobblers. Is. Id. to Is. 2d. per lb.; hens, lid. to Is. per lb.; butter, prims bulk, ,Is. 3d. per lb.; freßh eggß, Is. 2d. per dozen.

Customs duty, amounting to £4641 10s. 7<1., was collected at the port of lVel* lington yesterday. . WHEAT. ' Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association. London, August 30. The visible wheat supplies total J5,456,000 bushels. Chicago September options quoted at 143 i cents; December, 147 cents. Heavy rainstorms are seriously retarding the British harvest. AUSTRALIAN" PRODUCE JIAKKETS. (Kcc. August 31, 11.45 p.m.) ... ' : Sydney, August 31. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s. 6d„ 2s. 7d.; milling, 2s. Bd., 2s. 9d.; Tasmanian white, 2a.. 10d., 3s. 'Barley. 3s. 6d., 4s. Maize,-3a, 4d., 3s. Potatoes, Tasmanians, £6 10s.. £3 10s. . Onions, £4 10s., £4 15s. Adelaide, August 31. Oatf, Is. 9d„ 2s.

HIDES.' Melbourne, August 31. Hides.—Fair supplies. Lights and kips are irregular; ieavies aoid. mediums easier.

Buyers. Sellers. £ 6. d. £ s. d. National Bank . — , S 9 0 Bttllk N.Z. (£3' 6a. td.) ... 11 2 0 - Bank U.Z: (£6 13s. <d.) ... 17 2 6 N.Z. and. Itiver Plate 20 0 — Wei.' Trust Loan. Ltd. ... 4 17 6 7 0 0 Ohrlstchurch Gas (£5) ... — 7 0 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 15 2 6 National Insurance 2 13 8 — ftctur Meat (£1) 4 S 0 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... 1 6 3 , — Union Steam (ord.) — 2 2 3 Well. Woollen (ord.) - .660 Weil. Woollen (prof.) 3 17 6 — Waipa Coal 0 18 6 — IVcBtport Coal 19 9 — N.Z. Oonsol. Dental '12 3 — Jf.Z. Drug 2 7 3 —