COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2913, 27 October 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SILVUES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as lollop-: Buyers tellers. £ s. d, £ s. d. National Bank — 5 5 6 NiZ. and B. Plato — 2 19 Well. Invest. T. and A. .. — 0 10 9 Woll. Trust Loan, Ltd. — ~ 6.19 0 WolL. Gas (£10) - ' 15 2 0 Well. Gas (pref.) - 0 19 6 National Insurance 215 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating Co. (£10) ; - 19 17 6 Well. Meat Export (£1 155.) — 2 10 Union Steam (ord.) 2 2 3 — Union Steam (pref.) 113 — Kaiapoi Woollen (prof.)... — 517 6 Well. Woollen (ord.) — 6 0 0 We'stport Stockton (ord) 0 6 3 0 6 6 N.Z. Oonsol. Dental 13 0 — N.Z. Portland Cement ... — 011 6 Customs duties collected at tholporfc of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3961 In. Id. . WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRIOBS. Messrs. Laery and G0.,, Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices «s follow: Fowls' -wheat, prime, ss. 6d. per bushel; do., medium, ss. ss. 5d.; do., barley, 3s. 10d.; Australian Cape barley, 4s. 6d.; N.Z. Oapo barley, 3s. IDd.; barley seconds, 3a. Bd.; Partridge peas, 6s. 6d. per bushel; maize feed, ss. per bushel; chaff, oat flhoai, £6 ss. to £6 10s. ton; hay, clover, £5 ite.; do., meadow £4 10s.; flour in sacks, £13 155.; oatmeal, £17 10s. ton; bran, £4 15s. to £5 ton; pollard, £7 10s. ton. Potato seed; Gamekeepers, £7 ton. Bacon (all best factory): Sides, IOJd. lh.; rolls, Hid.; hams, la.; shoulders, 9id. Cheese (factory), medium lOd. lb. Linßeed nuts, £11 10s. ton; linsood ground cake, do.; linseed oil. meal, £11 10s. Rice pollard, £6 ss. ton. Onions: Victorian, £8 ton. Potatoes, -white-skinned table, £11 ton. Pig-meal, £6 ss. ton. All poultry In very good demand:—Hens, ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. pair; cockerels, 6s. to 83. Ducks, Pekin and Aylesbury. Bs. to 9s. pair: Indian Runners, 6b. to 6b. 6d. pair. Turkeys, gobblers, Is. 2d. lb., live -weight; hens, Is. lb., live weight. Butter, prime bulk, Is. 4d. lb. Eggs, fresh, Is. 4d.

PJSOTEST AGAINST WOOL FREIGHTS. The Wellington Wool Brokers' Association as representing tho Tvoolgrowers of the district, recently tuado a strong protest to the oversees shipping companies in respect of the incrcaso of freight on wool, together -with readjustments*, of other charges adversely affecting llif\ interests of growers. Tho replies received from the shipping companies, concerned arc not considered entirely satisfactory answers to the various points raised, and farther action will prolmhly result.

ANNTTAJi MEETING OF THK D.1.0. By 1 Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedln, Octobcr 26. The annual mooting of tho D.I.C. dc» eided to pay a dividend of 6 per cent, on prcferenco shares, 7 per. cent, oil ordinary rthares, a bonus of 2& per ccnt. to ordinary ah<Lreholdcrß on purchases, to add £6000 to the reserve fund, and to carry £19,737 less tho amount of the bonus forward. FROZEN MEAT MARKET. Moarfi. Gilbert Anderson and Company (Messrs. Mellsop, Eliott, and Co., Palmerffton North, local agents) report on tho frozen meat market, under date London, September 8, as follows:— Homo-Grown.--Siipplies have boon fully

siiflicicutj for demand, which is nun of a limited character. Further arrivals <;f Dutch mutton are to nand, tcliicg at Blightly lower prices than last -weak.

Prozen.—Patagonian lambs are Id. per lh. lower, the sale being forced in order to clear t.hcni before tlio larger (juacUties of New Zealands, which have! juat arrived, arfe available for market. Heavy mutton is not a ready sale, but lightweights are scarce, and in domund. Chilled beef dull. Market prices for week ending;— Sept. 8. Sept. 10. Sept. 1. 1916 1915. 1916. d. d. d. d. d. d. Homo-grown: Beef, sides 81-11 81-101 83-111 Mutton. ... 10 -12J 9 -10J 10 -12* Mutton, owes ... 84- 94 74- 8i 84- 9} Mutton, Dutch ... 8,-9* — 81-10 Tegs 111-12 9J-101 111-12 Lamb : 10 -131 74-10J 10 -134 Veal (best) 11 -121 104-114 11 -13 Pork (best) 12.-124 81-11 111-12 FrozenMutton : N.Z. wethers ... 8j 7J-7-J 85 N.Z. ewes..... 81 53 81 Aus. -wethers and ewes 81 6&, 5a 81 : S. Amer. wethers 9J-BJ' tib-61- 91-9 Lamb; , N.Z. and Aus. ...... 9J 81-71 91 South American 101-10 7}-7& ttl-104 Pork, TJ.S.A BJ-104 8- 83 84-9* Chilled; Argentine ox, fores and hinds 7J-91 .65-8J 7S-9J LONDON WOOL Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Itcc. October 2£, 10.55 p.m.) London, October 25. At the wool sales thero was s, better selection, end spirited competition. Pino crossbreds wero from 5, to 71 per cent, above tho Scptomber saJes; faulties wore selling freely, and slipes were at from par to 5 pe recnt. advanoc; Merinos showed- a hardening tendency. "Oh-aka" (Now Zealand), top price, 40d., average 383 d.

Messrs. Dalgcly and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London houso;—"Wool sales opened, good attendance, fair selection, mostly crossbreds, good competition as compared with last closo. Merinos, groasy and scoured par to 5 per cent. Greasy crosßbreds, fine 6 per cent, to 74 per cent. Medium and coa,r6e, 5 per cent, advance. Scoured and sliped, slightly dearer."

Tho United Farmers' Co-operative Association (incorporated with the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operativo Association, Ltd) have received tho following cablegram from their London agents"Seventh series of wool sales opened October 24 There was a large attendance of buyers And an activo 'demand. Pine, medium, anci coarse crossbred, par to 5 per cent, higher compared with closing prices of previous ealo!." The N.Z. Farmers' Co-opertahV Distributing Co., Ltd., have received the-follow-ing cablegram from their London agents: "Wool soles opened. Fine crossbred 7j per cent.; medium land coarse 5 per cent, dearer; little merino offered, hut appears 5 per cent, dealer." SYDNEY WOOL SAIES. , Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. October 25, 9 p.m.) Sydnßy, Octobcr 26. .At the wool sales there was a .firm market for orossbrcds, which continued to improve. Short, burry wools are irregular.