COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 17 April 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT shab.es. The Quotations lor investment shares yesterday were as follow:— .Buyers. Snllers. £ s. d. £ g. d. National Bank 5 3 6 — Bank N.Z. (£3 6a. Bd.) ... 1112 6- — Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) 17 6--0 - Loan and Mercan. (ord.) 82 0 0 — Weil. Invest. T. aud A. — 011 6 Well. Trust, Loau, Lt<L 6 18. 0 Ohch. Gab (£6) 6 2 0 - Wellington Gas (£10) ... — 14 ft 0 N.Z. Insurance -* 7 9 0 tS. British Insurance ... — 5 J4 0 Union Steam (ord.) ...... 2 5 0 2 5 6 Efuddort-Parker (ord.) ... — 15 3 Weatport OoaJ 17 0 17 6 We&tport-Stockton (ord.) 011 0 0 11 3' Leylund-O'Brien 15 3 — Golden Bay Cement 10 0 1 [ 0 Sharland (ord.) 17 9 18 6 • tEx div. t Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £«60 -os. 4d. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S JIARKET REPORT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries, ana Commerc has received the following cablegram, dated London, April 14, 1917, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices ea spot). . •Meat—Even although Argentine mutton and Jamb axe in fair supply, prices are higher owing to oonfcinued email supplies of N»Z. muttou and lamb and Australian lamb. Lower prices are being accepted for. good supplies of home-killed mutton and beef and Argentine beef. New land mutton, per lb., B£d.: ewe mutton, BJd.; Argentine mutton, heavyweight, 12id.; light-weight, 123 d.; N.Z. lamb, 10d.; Argentine lamb, 14id.; Argentine chilled beef, hinds lid., fores 9jd. . Butter—Following maximum prices fixed during the next, t'wo wefcks. Danish 'bitter and finest N.Z. aalted butter (mutilated word here), 2205.; Dutch creamery, Australian, Irish creamery, and American creamery. 2145.; Argentine. 210s. "no market is easier, partly owing to good supplies of Australian ana owing to good supplies of Australian and Danish. Danish salted, 204b., 2083.; N./5. salted, 200b. to 2085.; unealted, 198s. to 2005.; Australian aalted, 190b. to 1945.; unsaJted, 190s. to 1945.; Argentine salted, tS6s. M 1945.; unsalted, 186s. to 1945. Cheese.—Maximum cheese prices remain unchanged. Inactive demand owing to short, supplies. Canadian, 1625.; States Flats, 160s. . Hemp.—Market remains firm as offerings are very small on account of freight difficulties. Quotations arc nominal. Good fair N.Z. per ton. £75 10s.; fair N.Z., £72; Government graded fair, Manila, £96; Government graded coarse Hamla. £79. April to Juno shipments, good fair N.Z., £73; fair, £71; Government graded fair Manila, £75; coareo, £78. ■Wheat -Market firm. Demand is greater thin the supply. Australian, 855..; uanu/dian, Kb.; Argentine, 82s. Oats.—Market is strong; all, stocks aro advancing. There is a general and active demand. ,N.Z.>. 555. Peaß.-llarket firm, with an upward tendency. . . Beans-Market firm, owing to reduced supplies.