COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3008, 20 February 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's ' quotations for investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 0 0 — Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) - 17 6 0 N.Z. and Eiver Plato ... - 119 0 Wn. Invest* T. and A. 010 9 011 3 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltfl. 613 0- — tWell. Gas (£10) - 1410 0 Veil. Gas (pref.l 0 18 3 0 19 0 i. British Insurance 5 6 0 —

Well. Woollen (ord.) ... - 62 6 Wuipa Coal 0 18 0 - Leyland-O'Brien 13 6 - Golden Bay Cement' .... — 116 ttx div, ■WHOLESALE PRODUCE PIUCES. Messrs. Laery and Uo. Ltd allpd Street, report wholesale price? as follows:' -iowla wheat, prime, 6s. 9d. per bushel; Cape barley, <fs. 6d. jier bushel; maizo feed, ss. id. to ss. 6(1. per bushel; maize, crushed, 6s. per bushel; chaff, oat-Oieai, £6 10s. per ton; hay clover, £4 15i. lo £5 per ton; hay meadow, £5 per ton; flour, hi sacks, £16 10s. per ton; oatmeal, 7's £21, 25's £19; .pollard, £7 15s. pur ton! bran, £5 10s. per ton.; bacon (all best factory), sides Is. por lb., rolls Is. Id. .per lb., hams Is. per lb., shoulders 93d. per lb.; cheese (factory, medium lCd. per lb., loaf lid. per lb.; linseed meal, lUO's £11 10s., 60's £12, 20'3 £12 10s.; linEecd nuts, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linsc»d ground cake, 12-3. 6d. per cwt.; whole linte:d, 275. per cwt.; onions, 9s. per cwt.; potatoos, white skinned table, £9 to £11 per ton; pig-meal, £6 106. per ton. All poultry in very good demand: Hens, 3s. 6d., 7s. per pair; cockerels, 55., Bs. per pair; ducks (Pekin and Aylesbury), 65., 9s. per pair; ducks (Indian runners), 65., 6s. per pair; turkeys (gobblers), Is., Is. 2d. per lb.; turkeys (hens), 10d., lid. per lb.; butter (prime bulk), Is. 3d.; eggs, Is. 10(1. per dozen; new laid, Is. lid. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MAKKET KEPOKT. The Department of Agriculture, Industruss, and Commerce has received the following cablegram, dated Londoii, February 17, from tho llich Commissioner for New Zealand. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot):— Meat.—Tho demand ' has) considerably fallen off for all descriptors of meat on account of the decreased consumption in' consequence of I'ood Controllers' recommendations. New Zealand "frozen meat, quotations aro nominal. By order of the Government, none has been released during this -week. Government considering tnat heavy supplies of Home killed mutton and beef should suffice for present requirements. N.Z. mutton, per lb., BJcl.; cwo mutton, BJd.; Argentine mutton, heavy weight 10id., lightweight IOJd.; N.Z. and Australian lamb, IOd.; Argentine lamb, heavyweight lljd., lightweight 12d.; N.Z. bull beef, hinds 9d., fores Bd.; Argentine chilled beef, hinds llijd., fores ICJd. Butter.—Unsettled market owing to the great uncertainty of arrivals. No official quotations with the exception of French, pel- cwt. 2125. to 2175.; Australian, baited and unsalted, 2125. to 2165.; Irish factory, 1945. to 2025.; N.Z. salted and unsalted, 2Ms. to 2225. and 2205. to 2245.; Argentine, 2105.; unsalted, 210s. to 2125. Cheese—Market continues firm. Prices are higher owing to continued small supplies. Canadian,*white and coloured, per cwt-., 160s. to 164=.; English cheddar, 1625. to 1655.; States Flats believe supply will be large. Hemp—Market firm at the advance. It is reported that nothing offering here from Now Zealand, and business is confined to lqts at second-hand. • Quotations are nominal. Good fair, £66 par ton; fair, £85 (? £65). Havo not received ihe output of hemp at Manila, for tho week ending last Saturday. Wheats-Market auiet but firm. Quotations are nominal. Canadian, 80s. 6d.; Argentine, 795. 6d.; Australian, 83s. Oats—Firm market. Offerings are very small. K.Z., 51b. Customs duties collected <tt the port of

Wellington amounts! to iS6/7 2s. ,