COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. Yesterday's quotations for investment eliares wero as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ B. d. £ s. d. Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 11 H 0 _ Uiron Bnnl: — 54 0 0 tiquitnble lluildms — 917 6 N.Z. ond R. I'lato — Z 1 9 Well. Jnvoßt. T. and A. .. — 0 10 9 Welt. Trust Loan, Ltd. — 619 0 Well. Gas. (£10) - 15 0 0 Well. Gas (prcf.) -- 0 19 6 National Insurance 2 16 0 — N'.Z. Answranco ' 6 13 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 4 10 0 4 12 6 Well. .\lcAf, Export (£2 Ito. Cd.l 3 3 0 Well. Meat Export (£1 155.) _ 2 10 fTuddart-Parkor (ord) ... — 15 3 Woll. Woollen (ord.) ... — 6 0 0 .Leyland-O'Brien — 13 6 Golden Bay Cement — 10 6 Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3698 16s. Bd. WHOLESALE PBODUCE PIUCES. Messrs. Daery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows Fowls' wheat, prime, ss. 9d. per bushel; fowls' barley 3a. lOd. per bushel; Australian : Oapo barley, 4s. 6d. per bushel; New Ze*vland Cape barley, 3s. lOd. per bushel: barley, seconds, 3s. Bd. per bushel; partridpe peas, 6s. 6d, per bushel; maize, feed, ss. 3d. per bushel; chaff, ofttsheaf. £6 ss. per .ton; hay, olorer, £4 10s. to £5 per ton; flour, in sacks, £13 15s. per ton; oatmeal. 7s £20, 25's £19 per ton; bran, £4 15s. per ton; pollard, £7 10s. per ton. Bacon (all best factory), sides, IOJd. per lb.; rolls, Hid. per lb.; hams, Is. per lb.; shoulders, 9Ad. per lb. OliecEc (factory), medium, lOd. per 111.; linseed nuts, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed ground' cake. 12s. 6d. per owt.; rice pollard, £6 10s. per ton; oat pollard, £6 10s. per ton; onions, Victorian brown Spanish, £9 per ton; potatoes, whiteskiunod table, £11 15s. to £12 per ton. All poultry in very cood demand. Hens, .ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d.; cockerels, 6s. 6d. to Bs.; ducks (Pckin and Aylesbury), 9s. to 10s.; ducks (Indian Runners), se. 64. to 6s. 6d.; turkeys (gobblers), Is. Id. to lsi 2d. per lb.; turkeys (hens), lid. to Is. per lb. Butter (prime bulk); Is. 3d. per lb. Eggs. Is. <!d. per dozen. LONDON WOOL SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Kec. November 2, 2.10 p.m.) London, November 2. . At the wool sales the bulk of tho offerings were slipee. for which .the bidding was very keen, and prices hard. Greasy crossbreds were very firm, and l'eccnt prices for merinos were maintained. Tho following prices were realised for the fleecy portions of the Now i««la«u clips namedMeremere. top 19d, average 17 3 a. • Annedale, 20} d., 19gd.; Owhaoka, 3513. 28R

Messrs. Murray, Eoberts, and Co.. Ltd., received a cablegram from their London friends, Messr3. Sanderson, Murray and. Co., under date November 1. as follows:— "MaTlret strong. Merino, All descriptions, and crossbred greasy advanced par to 5 per cent."

I The New Zealand Loan <ind Mercantile | Agcncy Company, Limit-eel, have received the following cablegram from their London liouse, under date November 1:—Wool sales active as compared with .September 22. Crossbred greasy, medium to coarSe 7* per cent.; scoured and fine slipe, 5 per cent.; medium to coai'se, par to 5 per cent.; creaey merino and medium inferior scoured, 5 per cent.; superior 5 and lambs, par to 5 per cent, higher. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. By Telegraph-Press .Association-Copyright (Bee. November 2. 10.15 p.m.) Sydnoy, Novemb'er I. At the wool sales there was a keen demand for good merinos, prices which improved 7J per cent. Crossbred fetched 24jd., a record. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. (Rec. November 2, 10.15 p.m.) Melbourno, November At the wool sales there was a better class ,oi merino cro&sbreds, with a distinctly dearer demand. Inferior sorts improved. TALLOW SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, (Bee. November 2. 2.15 p.m.) * London. November a. At tho.. tallow sales, 2&07 casks were offered, and 1781 were sold. Beef and mutton, fine 505., medium 445. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE 7XARKETS. By Teleeraph-Preefl Association-Copyright (Rcc. November 2, 10.15 p.m.) ! Sydney, Novombcr 2. Oats, Algerian, feeding 25.. 4d. to 2s. 5d.; milling. 2s. 7d.; TasmaiJian, white 25...6 d, to .2s. Bd. Barley, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Maize. 3s. 9d. to 3s. 10d. Potatoes, Tas- 1 mamaus. £6 10s. to £9 10s. Onions, £4 I 10s to £5. ' | Adelaide, November 2. Oats, Js. Od. to Ib. lid.