COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3036, 24 March 1917, Page 12

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INTESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares-were as follow:— (' ■■ ' Buyers. Boilers. £ s.d. £ i.a. National Bank '.„.-". 5 16 — Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ...11 6 6 - Union Bank .................. 62 7 6 — . Watlonal Mortgage — ■ 316 6 Loan and Meroan. (ord.) 82 0 0 — N.Z. and River Plate ... — 118 9 Well. Invest. T. and A.. — 0 11 6 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. 616 0 — N.Z. Insurance 7>7 6 7 8 0 N.Z. Shipping (pref.) .... - 1012 6 Union Steam (ord.) 2 4 0 — Westport„Coal ..: 1 7 .3 17 6 (ord.) — 0 7 S Leyland-O'Brien I' 4 6 — Golden Bay Cement — 116 •V.tEx div. Oußtoms duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2875 Bs. 6d. \. ' 'i ■ SOUTHERN MARKETS. • . , By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, March 23. There Is only, a small quantity of whoat offering, although both millers and merchants ,are.-ready to purchase : supplies. Oats.—The market is in a somewhat doubt-ful-position, and the tone is easier. The original cause of firmness was the operation of buyers to cover forward sales, and opinions vary as to whether ■ the market is-going to hold or not. Meanwhile Victorian and Tasmanian oats are being landed at' Auckland at a cost of 3s. Bd. and 3s. s£d. per bushel, and Wellington is being supplied at a, less cost than the oats can be obtained .from the South IBrand. ' Some. samples of Southland -■ oats have been submitted to Christchuroh merchants,' but-they generally show signs of damage by rain. There is not much de-

mond for oatsheaf chaff, and tho quality of that being offered at present is mostly inferior. Prime is worth £3 15s. to £4, and lower quality £3 ss. to £3 10s. at country stations. The potato market is steady, and merchants are finding: somo difficulty in securing sufficient shipping snace for Auckland. The recent demand for onions for shipment to Vancouver has Armed prices to £6 paid to growers. Partridge peas are firmer, and aio quoted at 6s. to 7s. at country stations. Messrs. Levin and Co.. report:—We held a sale yesterday of tallow, hair, goatskins, rejected hides, and such commodities as the Government havo not commandeered. Wo quotb:—Tallow: In casks, '295. 9d. to 335. 6d.; in tins, etc., 225. to 335. 3d. Goat skins, 2s. to 35.; cow hair, 9d.; horse hair, 15d.; rough and rejected hides, 4d. to Bd. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, March 22. The Produce Exchange has decided not to alter the present maximum prices before April 13. Butter.—The market is idle, an 4 merely a hand-to-mouth business is being done. Buyers are holding oft, expecting that prices Trill recede further, as it is estimated that half a million boxes of Australian and two hundred thousand of New Zealand butter axe afloat, and are expected to arrive -within ten weeks. Quotations, largely nominal, are:—Choicest Australian, salted, 200s. to 2045.; iiirealted, 1965. to 2005.; 'Wow Zealand, salted, 210s. to 2125.; unsalted, 2045. to 208s. . ■ Cheese.—Firm. and unchanged. Sugar.—Standard granulated, 41s. 7id. per cwt.