COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2895, 6 October 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. ... lit tho Investment markot yesterday .'ales wore mode of Wellinston Gas (preference) at 19s: 6d., and Leyl&n<tO'Briett at 235. 3d. The quotations were as nnderi— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. 4. National. Bank - 5 6 0 Bank N.SS. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... - « J6 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... - .17 7 6 Union Bank ...: - o4 5 0 Rational Mortgago •. 4 0 0 — Well. Invest. T. and A-» - 210 5. Well. Trust, * Loan, Ltd. - 70 0 National' Insurance 2 14-0 — Gear Meat (£1) 410 0 - N.Z. Shipping (prcf.) 10 10 0 - Union Steam (old.) 2 3 3 - Union Steam (pref.) 113 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) .. — 16 6 Koiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 6 0 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) - ■ 6 0 0 Wcstport Coal - 19 9 WcstportrStockton (prof.) 0 10 6 — N.Z. Consol. Dental ...... 12 9 — N.Z. Drug 2 6 6 - N.Z. Portland Cement ... — 0 12. 0 Golden Bay Cement — 116 \ Customs duties collected at.'tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2300 2s. Ed. ■ WHOLESALE PKODTJOE VftlOßS. ' ' Messrs. Lacry and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, ropurt wholesalo prices o.s follows:—Fowls' wheat, prime, ss. sd.- per bushel; fowls' wheat, good, ss. 3d. to ss. 4d. per bushel; fowls' barley, 4s. per bushel; Australian. Capo barley, 46. 6d. per bushel; Now Zealand , Capo barley, 3s. lOd. nor bushel; seconds' barley, 3s. Bd. per bushel; partridgo peas, 6s. 6d. per bushel; maize, feed, 4s. lOd. to ss. per bushel; chaff, oatshoaf, £6 ss.>pcr ton; hay. clover, £5 to £5 10s. per ton; flour, in sacks, £13 15e. per ton; oatmeal, 7's £20, 25's £18 per ton; bran, £4 15s. per ton; pollard, £7 10s. to £7 15s. per ton. - Potato seed. Redskins, £10 per ion; Northern Star, £6 15s. per ton;'Up-lo-Datc', £8 per ton; Gamekeepers, £7 per ton; Breezes Prolific, £7 per ton. Bacon (all best factory), sides, ll»d. per lb.; rolls, Is. 03d. per lb.; hams, Is. per lb.; shoulders, lCd. per lb.; cheese (factory), modium, lOd. per lb.; linseed nuts. 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linsoed ground cako,' 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed oil meal, Us. 6d. nor cwt.; onions, Victorian brown Spanish, £9 per ton; potatoes, white-skinned table (southern), £9 to £9 10s. per ton; pigmcal, £6 10s. Ncr ton. ' All poultry in very good demand. Rons, ss. to 6s. 6d. per pair; cockerels, 6s. to Bs. per pair; ducks (Pekin and Aylesbury. 9s. to 10s. per pair; ducks (Indian Kunners), 6s. to.7s. per pair; turkey;, gobblers Is. Id. to Is. 2d. per lb., hens Ud. to Is. per lb.; butter, primo bulk. Is. 3d. to Is. 4d. por lb.; eggs, 16. 3d. to Is. 4d. per dozen. • ■

WAIRARAPA FARMERS.' CO-OP. AiSSOOIATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mastorton, October 5. The annual meeting of shareholders. in the Wairarapa, Farmers' Co-operative Association was held on Wednesday afternoon. The chairman ol directors (Mr. N. Oasolborg), in moving the (Adoption of the report and balance-sheet, pointed out to the fact that the past year had shown o, profit of £15,273 155., as against £14,11J 19s. last year. Ho. said it wa6 pi-oposed to pay a dividend of 8 per cent., free of income tan. The assets of the company were shown at £177,230 above the liabilities. During tho year tho auctioneering business of Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., in the Wairarapa, had • been acquired, also the business of the U.F.C.A. It was proposed to issuo £100,000.worth of preference shares, healing 6 per cent. The report was adopted. Messrs. A. Oasclbcrg, .1. Oiselberg, and V. K Donald were reelected directors, and Messrs. O. 0. Cooper and "Martin Elgar wcro Appointed to All vacancies on the directorate caused by the retirement of Messrs. D. J. Nathan nnd-Jj. Oaeelbcrg. Messrs. Badhom and Sellar were re-elected auditors.

TALLOW SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. • (Bee. October 5, 5.35 p.m.) London, October 4. AtthetaEow sales. 1566 casks were offered, and 835 were sold. Quotations: Mutton, fine 445., medium 40s. 6d.; beef, fine 455., medium 395.