COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

0 INVESTMENT BHABES. Saturday's quotations for investment 1 shares were as follow:— r Bayers. Sellers. «.-,_, £'■ *• £e.A.\ N_tionei Bank 6 10 — - Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) '~. U 5 0 • 11 7 S a loan, Mercantile (ord.) {0 0 0 — | N.Z. and River Plate ... — 118 5 Weil. Invest. T. and A. ... — 011 6 1 well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. 614 6 - , S. British Insurance 512 6 — , Well. Meat Export (£5) -- 6 5 8 Weil. Meat Export (£2 ' 12s. «d.) .'. _ 3;o Union Steam (ord.) 2 16 — 1 ! HuddarMParker (ord.) ... 1 5 6 16 8 I I Kaiapoi Woollen, (ord.) _, 6 6 i - I >Voll. Woollen (prcf.) 3 15 0 - ! Waipa Coal 0 18 0 — > ! Westport £oal — 17 9 i. ■ Jrijittnd-O'brien 14 0 — . i tN.JS Brus 2 8 6 ; Golden Bay Cement — 110 ! tOam div. • ' ______ ■ | TRADE BALANCES. !i Trade balances of the Dominion for! January, 1917, as compared with tho cor-1 responding month "of last year, aro given I m tho latest Abstract of Statistics. The | figures are as follow for January. | 1916. bolnc fiven in parentheses) :—Total ' trade (exports of fold excluded), £5.061,244 £6,447,655); imports, £2,210,879 (£2,125,023); exports, £2,850.365 (£4.322.632); imports (excluding specie) £2,201.296 (£1,904,523): exports (oxoludinp spcoio), £2,849,965 £(4,299,628); eicess of exports over imports (oxcludtnic specie). £648.669 (£2,395,105). The value of the principal' exports for tho month was as follow:—Butter, £541,992 £601,669); cheese, £144,„„ (£427,516) ;'\'beef, £159,531 (£94,124); mutton, £238.975 (£116.351): lamb. £100,198 (•£192,802); wool, £1,277,912 £2626.195); hides, £25,416 (£55,288); tallow, £31.249 (£38,761); phomium fibre. ■ £71,545 (£44,791). LONDON MARKETS. (Kcc. March 11,' 5.5 p.m.) London, March 9. Mutton—South American, lljd.; lamb, ' 12jd. Australian and New Zealand meats I are unchanged. j Itabbits ai'o unchanged: few offering-. Hemp is firm. There is no New Zealand I hemp offering. J : Taibber.—Fine hard Para, 3s. 2*d. por lb.; plantation, 3s. 2Jd.; smoked"sheets, ! - 3s. 2gd. j , Copra-January-March shipment, £411 15s. per ton.-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Aesn. ,' 1 THE PRICES FIXED. ' ' (Rec. March 11, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, March 9. ' Tho Produce Eiohance has fiixed tho following maximum wholesale prices for tho ensuing fortnight-Butter :-New Zea- , land and Danish, 2245.; Australian, Dutch, i Irish, nnd English, 2185.; Argentine, 2145. ! Cheese: English, ,1655.; Canadian,. 1625.; J United States, 16C0.; lard, 1405.: and Irish • bncon, 140s. ( The retail prices have not been fixed f but the Food Controller will toko drastic j action acainst anyono making excessive profits.--A.US.-N.Z. Cable Asfcn. . WHEAT. « (lice. March 11. 5.5 p.m.) J Chicago, March 9. ' Wheat. options-May, 19.11 c. to 187ic; ): July, 161 c. to IMJe.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. b