COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2888, 28 September 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's Quotations for investment shares were as follow:Buyers. Soilcrs. „ , „ „ £s, d. £s, d. Bank >~Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 11 1 6 _ Well, invest. T. Una A. - 010 9 National Insuranco 214 0 - N.Z. Insurance 6 9 0 N.Z. Shipping (pref.) 10 10 0 - Wostport Coal — 19 9 Lcyland-O'Bricn 13 0 — Ward, and Co 516 0 — N.Z. Consol. Dental 12 9 — $; Z -„ Dru K 2 6 0 " - JJ.Z. Portland Cement ... - 012 0 Golden Bay Cement — 119 *Ei dii. _Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £4285 Vs. lid.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Dauncvlrke, report haying hold their oddments sale of wool, skins, hides, etc., to a full bench of buyers, when their catalogue was cleared under very kcon competition at most satisfactory prices/ • One particularly fine lot of prime crossbred sheepskins (dry) containing over two hundred skins realised 123 d. per lb., and as some of.the individual skins weighed as much (is' twenty-one pounds each 'vendors are receiving 225. 3d. each for skins. Quotations: Fleece wool, greasy. Irom 12id. to 12Jd.; crutohings, Bd. to 10Jd.; lambs, Hid.; locks and pieces, 5Sd. to frld.: sheepskins, good strong crossbred roalised up to 123 d. per lb.; dead skins, 9Jd. to Hid.; .damp and green skins, lie. 3d. to 12s. 6d. each. Hides: Prime stout ox, to lid. per lb.; cows, 9Jd. to 10>,d. Calfskins, sound, to 12M. per lb.; damaged and out, to 9id. Tallow: Casks, to 275. 6d. per cwt.; tins, to 2«s. 9d. .' . . STpmsr wool sales. By Telegrapji-Press Association-Copyright [ (Rco. September 27, 10.25 p.m.) Sydney, September 27. At the vool sales all greasy rocorda wore broken, 343 d: being paid for Merino ewes.'