COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

S INVESTMENT SHAKES. J Yesterday's (juototiona for investment ahareß wefo as follow:— .. ' Buyers. Sellers. „ £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 6 6 6 * Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) .... — 11 7 6 ' Union Bank 53 10 0 54 6 0 . Well. Trjist, & Loan, Ltd. — 7 0 0 t Well. Gas (£10) - 15 2 0 s Wdl. Gas (pref.) — 019 6 . National Insurance 214 0 — , Gear Meat (£1) 410 0 — * N.Z. Shipping (prcf.) 10 10 0 — T Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) .. — 66 0 ° Westport Ooal — 19 9 l WestportriStookton (pref.) 010 6 . -rj Golden Bay Cement • — 116 i Customs duties collected at the port of t Wellington yesterday. amounted lo £2771 ; lis. lid. l SOUTHERN' JIAHKETS. J By: Telegraph—Press Association. j Chrlstchurch, October 3. 1 There is no change in the wheat mar--3 ket except that it is not quite so firm.' t As orders for the North Island have been ; filled there is very little offering. Oats 3 are firmor, miil it "was rumoured that 3 there was-a . Government contraot on the - market, but it 'is stated it will not bo » , filled in Canterbury owing to the short-1 - ago of oats here. The potato market is t remaining the same, £6 10sl to '£6 15s. be- ; ing the ruling prico at country stations. - Thero is a good demand for seed potatoes, - and prices are firmer, good seed being > scarce. ' ! TALLOW". ( Australiftii-New Zealand Cable Association. ; (Kec. Octobcr 3, 7.40 p.m.) London, October 2. Tallow.—Stocks. 7438 casks;' imports, 4330 ; casks; deliveries, 2015 casks. | ' ( COPPM. , . (Itec.' Octobcr 3, 7.40' p.m.) . Lohdon, October 2. ' Oopper.-Supplico, 40,2921b.; deliveries, ; 41,4351b.; stocks, 57961b.; afloat, 3M01b.; vis--1 ible supply, 10,3711b. THE METAL MARKETS. . (Ree. October 3, 11.15 p.m.) London, October 3. Copper.—Spot. £119 per ton; throo months, £115 10s. Tin.—Spot, £175 7b. 6d. per ton. Lead.—Spot, £35 305.; three months, £29 10s. Spelter.—Spot. £52; ,three 1 months, £46. Silver.—Bar silver is quoted at 32Jd. per oz. standard. Three of the shcepowners in Hawke's Bay are reported, says our Napier correspondent, to have agreed to the shearers' demand for 255. per hundred for shearing; Mr. E. G. Allen, of Masterton, has disposed of his champion. Rgmney Marsh ram Westminster 111, which has tvon eleven championships in the Dominiqn, to Mr. T. Smith, of Evendak, Tas'-. mania. The supplies of milk to the Waira-' rapa butter and cheese factories is much in excoss of "the supplies at the same period. lasfc i year.» , ' Cheese factory managers aro reminded that orders' oan, only, ihe executed in rotation*for:the. Victor Vat.'. This 'famous Vat; : with'its sloping bottom °and middle drainage, moans bisser profits and Kreatcr effioiency. Make certain of securing your requirements by placing your order straight'way '.with 'A. J. PARTON, Sheet Metal antl.Plumbinp Works, TonW broke Street, Carterton.—Advt. .•