COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2981, 19 January 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Jf.Z. and Rivor Plato ... — 119 0 Well. Invest. T. and A. .. — 0 lu 0 •Well. Trust Loan Ltd. — 617 6 Well. Gas (prof.) 0 18 3 0 19 0 S. British Ineurance ... 5 2 0 — Well. Meat Export (£5)... 6 5 0 — Union Steam (ord.) 2 10 — Well. Woollen (pref.) 3 15 0 - Wertport Coal 17 6 18 6 Leyland-O'Brien 12 9 — Manning and Co — 4 8 0 Aiick. Trams (ord.) 1 3 — N.SS. Drug 2 7 6 - Golden Bay Cement 0 19 0 — "Ex. div. WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. ' Messrs. Lacry and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report on the wholesale prices aa follow:— Fowls' wheat, prime, 6s. Bd. per bushel; fowls' barley, 45.: Capo barley, 4s. 6d.; maizo feed, ss. 6d. to ss. 9d.; chaff, oatsheaf, £6 ss. per ton. socks in; hay, clover, £5 10a.; flour, ill sacks, £16 10a.; oatmeal. £19; bran, £4 15s. to £5; pollard, £7 10s.; bacon (all best factory), rides lid.; rolls. Is.; hams, la.; shoulders, SJd.; cheese factory), medium 10d., loaf Il3.; linseed oil meal, lCO's, 11s. 6d.; luißced nuts. 12s. 6d. cwt.; wholo linseed. 27a. 6d. cwt.; onions, N.Z., £7 10s. to £8 10s. ton.; potatoes, while-skinned table. £8 10s. to £9 10s. ton. All poultry in very good demand. Hens, 4s. to ss. 6d. pair; cockerels, fe. to 75.; ducks (Peltin and Aylesbury), Bs. to 9s. pair; ducks (Indian runners), ss. to 6e. pair; turkeys (RobblerE), Is. 2d. lb., live weight; turkeys '■ (henp). U. lb. livo weight; butter (prime bulk), Iβ. 3d. II>. : J ecge, fresh, Is. 6d. dozen. 9

Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington, yesterday amounted to £2862 16s. 4d. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co.. Ltd., havo received tho following ca-blcKram ironi their llessJs. Sanderson, Murray and Co., London, dated January 16, ivs follows: —"Sales have- closed with no change on the November closing rates, except for'greasy merino combine, which has advanced 5 per cent. Taulty wools irrcsula-r. Next sales open February 13." * N.Z. Loan , and Mercantile • Agency Co., Ltd.. have received the following cablegram from their London house:—"Wool sales closed. Market generally easier about par November; closing rates, cssspt values crossbred slipe. equal December. Next sales commence- February 13."

TALLOW SALES. ! (Kcc. January 18 7.30 p.m.) London, January 17. At the tnllow £«les 812 casks wero offered and 588 cold, at full ratoß—Aus.-N.Z. Oablo Aesn. ATOTEALIAN PEODTJCB MARKETS. By Telegraph-Press Association-OopyrisM {Vxc. January 18. 9.60 p.m.) Sydney, January 18. Oate, Tttsmanlan. Zs. 10d. to is.; Algerian, feedius. 2s. 6d'. to 2s. Bd.; milliner. 2a. 9d.; barley, feeding, ■ 35.; mattinir. 3e. 3d.; maizo. 3s. Bd. to 3s. 9d.: pototocs, Ta.smaniau, £7 103. to £8: onions, new, £10. Adelaide, January 18. Oats ore quoted tit Iβ. lid. per bushel.