COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAMS. ■ "Prices' of investment stocks yesterday Trero as follow Buyers. Sellers. £ s.d. £ 8. d. Bank 5 10 — Bank N.Z. (£3 6s Ed.) . 11 5 ,0 - '.Bank N.Z. (£« 13s. 4d.) . 17 3 0 - Union Bank 52 15 0 — Loan and Mercan. (ord.) 82 0 0 — K.Z. and River, Plate ... — 118 9 Well. Trust, Loan, Jjid. . 6 15 (1 — N.Z. Insurance .'. ; 7 7 0 — South British Insurance — 6 15 0 TJnion Steam (ord.) — 2 4 3 JTuddart-Parker (ord.) ... 1 6 0 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) .. 6 7 6 — 'WestportrStockton (ord.) — 0 7 9 T'wlii-nd-O'Brien 14 3 — N.Z. Drue 2 8 ,6 — V WHOLESALE PRODUOK .PRIOES. ' Messrs. Laery and Co.. Ltd., Allen Street, Teport -wholesale prices as follow Fowl's wheat, prime. 6s. 9d. per bushel; fowl's barley, 46. Bd. per bushel; Cape barley. ,4s. 9d.' per bushel; partridge peas. Bs. 6d. per bushel; maize feed, 53. 6d. to ss. 9d. per bushel; crushed maize, 6s. per bushel; chaff, oatsheaf, £6 10s. per ton; hay, clover, £5 10s. per ton; hay. meadow, £5 per ton; flour, ip Backs, £16 10s., per ton; oatmeal, 25's, £22 per ton; pollard £7 15s. per ton; bran, £5 12s. 6d. per ton; .bacon ■ (all best factory), sides Is. per lb.; rollß Is. Id. per lh., hams Is. Id. per lb., shoulders 9J#l. per lb.; cheese • (factory), medium, ldd. por lb.; cheese, loaf, Ud. -per lb.; linseed meal, 100's £11 10s. per ton, 50's £12 per ton, 29's £12 10s. per ton;

hneeed mils, 12s. 6d. per cwl.; linseed ground cake, 12s. 6d. per cwt..; whole linseed, 255. per cnvt.; onions, £7 10s. to £8 ySF.J*" I ' , Potatoes, white-skinned, table, £7 IBs. por ton; pijc meaJ, £6 10s. per ton. All poultry m very (food domand. Hens, 3s. td. to 63. por pair; cockerels, 4s. to 7s. per pair; ducks. Pekln and Aylestrary 6s. (A. to 7e. 6d. per pair, Indiaii Eunnere 63. per pair; turkeys, cobblers Is. Id. to Iβ. 3d. per lb., 1:to weicht, hens lCd. to Is.; butter (prima hulk). Is. 4d. por lb.; eees fresh, 2s. per dozen.

Custom* duties collected at the port of Welluiicton yestorday amounted to £1604 HIGH COMJLIfiSIONEII'S MABKET UEPOUT. The Department of AuriouJture, Industries, and Commerce has received the following oablegram, dated I/mdon, March 17, from te.e High Commissioner for New Zealand. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are cveraco market prices on spot):— Moat.—Owing to decreasing supplies of HonKVkilled mutton and beef there is a better demand for ■ all descriptions of frozen meat, with the result that Argentine mutton and lamb prioos are higher. Now Zealand mutton, and lamb aro in small supply. Prices aro nachaneed. New EtwJand end Australian mutton, BJd. per lb.: ewe mutton, BW.; Argentine mutton. he.s?y-weitfht. U 3-Bd.: Uvh«-v«v>ht, ll}d.; ISw Zealand lamb, 10(1.; Argentine lamb, 13d.; New Zwil&rid. hnll betf. Mnda, 9d.; fores. B}d., small supplies; Argentirio beef, in fair supply. Arwntino chilled brol. hinds USd.; fores. 10)td.

Butter.—Prices have an tinier tendency. Demand ie mostly for salted Butter. TJnsallwi bolter in blot demand, no arrivals. Not? Zealand butter, ncr cwt., 218s. to 2We.; unsalted, 21fis. to 2205.; Australian. SOfe. t0'2145.: unsalted, '2Mb. to 2125.; Argentine, 2045. to EMs.; 'American creamery, 2Ws.

Qheose.—Market continues firm. Stocks are very liffht. Canadian white and coloured, 1265. 6d. (P); States Flats. 1605.; KntrliEh rliwidur, no Quotations; no supplies available.

Hemp.—jfarket ' firm, with en upward tendency. There is a srenerei and active domand owinj to Rtak btiinpr almost exhausted. Oood . fair New Zealand. £7J; fair, £70; Government-eraded fair Manila, .«7; coars*, £77: March to Way shipment, Good fair flew Zealand.. £71; fair, f.fS; Govorninor'-aw'ted fair Manila, J. 80: coarse, £75. These prioeq obtainable if BbiTirneT.t cms bo emarstnteed. THieat -Market firm, with improved demand. Very little offered in market. Australian, Els.; Canadian. Sis.; Argentine, 81b. Oats.—Market active und adTancinir. Supplies are deorecsins. New Zealand, 525.