COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2882, 21 September 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES'. , A fale of Napier Gas shares (£5 paid) at £8 was reported yesterday. The quotations were as under:— \ Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. i>. Natioiial Bank 5 7 0 5 8 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. 8d.)" ... 11 4 6 - National Insurance 2 13 6 — HuddartrParkcr (ord.) ... 1 6 0 - • N.Z. Shipping (ord.) 10 10 0 - Union Steam (ord.) 2 19 2 2 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) - 6 00 Westport Cool 19 9 WestportrStockton (pref.) 0.10 3 — Ward and Co. 5 16 0 - ■ N.Z. Con. Dental 12 6 — N.Z. I)ruß 2 7 6 - N.Z. Portland Cement .. - 0 1?, 0 *Goldcn Bay Cement ... -, 12 0 "Ex div.

LONDON WOOL SALES. Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association. (Ilcc. September 20, 5.15 p.m.) London, September 19. At the wool sales thoro was active com. petition in all Rood classes Orossbrcds wore from 5 to 75 per cent., and merinos, o per cent, above, the opening rates. All faultics were difficult to sell, being from 6 to 10 per cont. below July rates. -Tho following prices, were realised, for flceco portions of the Now Zealand clips mentioned :—Awarutt, top. 254<t.; average, 21 3-Bd.; Masai, 17i<1., 17Jd.; Gladstone, 30jd., 19} d. . ■ OVERSEAS CIIEESE OUTPUT. London, September 19. ■The Government's intention regarding oheeso has .not been announced, but thereis a growing impression that it is likely to ta'ke over all arrivals of Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian, and possibly also the Homo output. FItOZBN MEAT. London, Scptombor 19. South American mutton. 8 3-Bd.; Australian and Now 'Zealand, unohonged. Tho market is tending easier owing to larger supplies of Home-grown and more abundant arrivals of New Zealand mutton and lamb. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £ / \Mi 16s. lid.