COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES, ■ Saturday's quotations for investment shares were as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £s. d. National Bank — 5 7 9 Bank X.'i. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 11 4 6 Well. Gas (£10) 15 0 0 . OhrisUhurch Gas (£15).... 615 0 - N.Z. Shipping (prcf.) ... 10 IU 0 - *Huddart-Parker (0rd.)... 16 3 - Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 6 0 0 — Wcstport Coal — 19 9 Westport-Stockton tpref.) 0 10 3 .— Leyland-O'Bricn 12 9 , — N.Z. Con. Dental 12 9 - *N.Z. Drug 2 6 0 - N.Z. Portland Cement ... - 012 0 'Golden Bay Cement ... . i— 12 0 *Ex div. • •.. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2287 ■15s. ,sd. HIDES AND SKINS. . Messrs. Dalgaty and Company, Limited,. Palmerston North, quote , from , their aiontWy sale:— , Wool.—Crutchings, medium to good. lOd. to llhd.; inferior 'and lines, BJd. to 9Jd.;-seedy and hca,vy. 73d. to Bid.; dead wool, 10Jd. ■to 13Jd.; rou?li crossbred, 13d. to 13id.; inferior lambs, 'Ad. to 10jd.; bollics and pieces, Bd. to IOJd.; locks and pieces, sid. to 7Jtl.; black wool, Bd. Sheepskins.—Crossbred, full wool, coarse, Hid., to 12Jd.;. medium and fine, 12Jd. to 12jd.;. hoggets, 10id. to 12id.; ditto, short and,shorn, 7d. to 92d.; dead skins, lOd. to 10* d.; dittos broken and damaged, 81d. to lOd.;' quarter to half-wool, BJd. fo Hid.; crossbred, seedy, . 7id. to ' 9}d.; ditto, damaged-and inferior, s}d. to 9d.; butchers' part dry and .salted crossbred, at fiach, best heavy lines, 12». 6d. to 145.; medium to good, 9s. 2d. to 10s. 9d.; light, ,6s. 6d. to Bs. 6d.; hoggets, 6s. to 6s". 6d. ' Hides-Ox, medium and heavy, Hid. to lljd.;'ditto, light, 103 d. to 10Jd.; cow hides (best lines), 10Jd.,to 10,3-Bd.; rough country -lines, 9d; to 9Jd.; yearling, 9d. to 9Jd.; ditto, cut and damaged, 6{d- to Bd.; cow and ox,, damaged,; 7jd. to B}d.; calfskins (best,sound lines), 13d. to 13 3-Bd.; medium to good, lljd. to 12 3-Bd.;' rough and meaty,-lOid.j cut and damaged, 7d; to 9d. Tallow and Sundries.—Tallow, in tins, ; 28s. 6d.; ditto, casks, 28s. to 295.: horsehair, . Is. 2d. LONDON MARKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. September 24, 5.5 pjn.) London, September 23. Wheat is loss depressed. N.Z. hemp is unchanged. Eubbcr, hard,'fine Para. 3s. 3Jd. per lb.; plantation,'2s. 5d.; smoked slieot6, 2s. 4Jd. Rabbits are firm. v The demand isulowly improving. Mutton—New Zealand, 83d. to 9Jd.; Austreliau, '8?d.; South American, fid. and BJd. Lamb.—New Zealand and Australian-, 10d.; South American, aid. to 9 3-Bd.