COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

■ ; INVESTMENT SHARES. A salo of Kaiapoi Woollen at £6 9s. "was reported yesterday. The Quotations were •as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. . \ T ,. ' , ' £ s. d. £. s. d. National Bank 5' 2 0 — Bank tf.Z. (£J Ss. Sd.) ... 11 8 0 ' 11 12 0 Uank N.R. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... 17 3 6 - Union Bank . 52 12 6 53 0 0 National Mortgage — 317 0 Loan uJid Alercan. (ord.) 82 0 5 — N.Z. ftnd Eivor Plato ... 118 & Wa. Invest.-Wand A.... 011 o — Trust Loan, Ltd 6 16 6 — Click Gas (£5) 6 0 0 — Rational. Insurance — 215 0 Insurance 4...., — 7'9 0 Wfffn. Meat Export (£5) 6 0 0 •— Union Steam (ord.). 2 5 0 — . Uuin Sboam (pref.) , 1 0 11 — "Westport Coal — 17 9 Westport-Stoekton (ord.) 0 7 6 Loyland-O'Brion 1' 5 0 — , Kharland (ord.).: 17 0 — fiharland. (pref.) ■ 17 0 WHOLESALE PBODUOE PEIOBS. .Messrs. Laery- and Co., Ltd., Allen Streofc, report wholesale priccs as follow:—Fowls' wheat, prime.. 6s. 4d. per bushel; fowls' «j v ' B'*8 '* per bushel j Capo barley, 4s. 9d.. per; bushelr Prussian' Blue pe'a», .18.. sd.per vbushe); Partridge peas, , Bs. r 6d. per : bu3Uel; maize; feed, ss. 3d. to ss. w.;s«srushed maize, 65.; chaff, oatßheaf, £6, 10s. per ton;' hay,- clover, £5 ss. per ton; hay, meadow, £5 per/tonflour w sacks; £16/ss.' ppr .ton; oatmeal. £22 rer ton; pollard, £7/15s. por toil; bran, £5 10s. per ton; potatoes, white-skinned table, £6 10s., to £7 10s. per ton. Escou (*ll ,bcst factory)— Sides, is.,Jd. per lb; xollb, Is. lid. per lb.; liarns, is. IJd. per lb.; shoulders, 10Id. per lb'. Cheese "(factory), medium, lOd. per lb.; cheese, loaf, lid. Jjer lb. Linseed meal—loo's,-£ll 103.': £o's, £12; 20's, .'£l2 10s.; ■' linseed nuts', 12s. 6d. per cvrt.; linseed ground cake, 12b. W. per cvrt.; whole linseod, 265. per cwt. Barley pollard, £7 per ton. Onions, £8 10s. 1 per ton.* AH poultry in very sjood demand. —Bens; 3s. to 4s, fd. pel* jyiir* cockerels, a .4s.'-.t0.75. per ! pair; «jxis P«kin and Aylesbury), 7s. per pair; <Sckn (Indian Runners;, ss. per pair. Butter (prime bulk). Is. 4d. per lb. 1 Turkcv ß (gobblers), ls. 2d., per lb., live -weight; turkeys (hens), Is. per lb. livo weight. Eggs, fresh, 2s. per; dozen; eggs, preserved, ls. Bd. per dozen.. • duties collected at the port ot Wellington yesterday amounted to £2007 ■19s. sd. ■'■-■■■. . .. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MABKET . BEPOBT. ' The Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce haß received the following cablegram, dated London, March 31, from, tho High Commissioner for Now Zealand. (Note—Quotations, unless otherwise specified, aro average market priccs on spot);— . . .Meat—The demand is in ciceas of supply for all descriptions of fuozen meat. Government has released only a small quantity:—'.New Zealand muttjn, -per lb., Bgd.; ewe mutton, BJd.; Argentine mutton,-heavy-weight, 12d.; lighWeiffht, 12jd.; New Zealand lamb, 10d.; Argentine lamb, 13Jd.; New Zealand- beef, no supplies available. Argentine beef in good supply. Argentine chilled beef, hinds 11 3JBd.; fores, 10} d.; New Zealand bonelesp l)eef, lUd. Butter.— I The market isj firmer, partly owing : to . Mew Zealand butter -Being in small supply. Danish Gutter 'in fair I supply, 2lßs. to . 2245.; jDutch . creamery, ! 2045. to 2085.; New Zealand butter,. 2165. to 22fts.; unsalted, 208s. to! 2125.; Argentine. 1983. t0.2025.; Australian, salted, 2045. to 2065.; unsalted, 200s. to 2845. Cheese.—No quotations; owing to short supply, with the exception of States Hats, in keen demand, lEfls. , Spot market is strong. Good demand for. all descriptions. . Market activo owing to small arrivals.' Good fair New Zealand hemp, £J5 10s.; fair, £72Government graced fstir Manila, . £96; coarse, £79; April, to; June shipments, Kood fair New Zealand, £73;> fair, £72; Government graded f;kir. Manila, £95; coarse, £78. Output of'hemp from Manila for fortnight ending 'March 17 was 37,000 ■ bales. - i '• . Wheat.—Market firm. ) with hardening tendency. Here iB a general and active demand, but very little is offered.' Australian, 855.; Canadian, 835.; Argentine, _82s. ■' • I . Oat's.—Market looks very Btrong. There are «. number of buyers at -present price of Now Zealand. 545.. but almost nothing offered for sale. : LONDON WOOL SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. I London, April 1. At the wool sales,'there 1 was a better selection, and keen; competition by ,the Homo trade. Amoncan, and Continental uuyers. . Tnis was tne first sale at which .purchasers for export were allowed.'The War Office allows/the United States to take 10,000 bales rmt of the catalogues, but buyers only bought, about 1500. Prices aro firm. Better classes aro dearer. The Bradford market is strong and tending higher. Business la small. ■ t ; - LONDON JIABKHTB. V ' ./■ • - ' ' . London, April 1. Mutton.—South .'American, Hid.; lamb, 13 3-Bd. Othors unchanged. Rabbits. —Market - quiet. Prices unchanged. Eubber.—Fine hard Para, 3s. 3d. per lb.; plantation, 38. Id.; smoked, 3s. OJd. Copm.—Market inactive. February-April shipments, £41 per iton, nominal. - More and more Cheese Factory man- ' agers are awaking t«i the jrofit-prodticins qualities";of..Victor IVats.; The sloping Tjottom and" middle drainage make for a quick'and complete elimination of whey. Orders are heing executed 1 in rotation— you should certainly get details. Write at your earliest to A. J. Pnrton, Sheet Metal Worts, Carterton.—Advt.