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COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES.realcrday's quotations ' for investment shares wcro aa follow;— Buyers. Sellers. £ a. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 4,0 550 Bank N.Z. (5 65. Sd.) ...1115 0 - Bank N.Z. (.lit 13e. 4d.) ... 17 7 0 - Union Bank 53 5 0 — National iK.riisgo — 3 16 6 N.Z. and. K. Plato — 1 18 6 Well. Dcp. and Mort 0 7 0 - (Jhristehurch (Us (£5) ... 6 5 0 ' - Well. Gas (£10) — 14 2 6 National Insurance 214 0 — IJnion Steam (ord.) ...... 2 4 9 2 5 6 KuddarU'arkcr (ord.) ..." 1,5 3 — Welt. Woollen (ord.) 6 >2 6 - Wcßbport Coal 17 0 17 6 Lcyland-O'Brien 15 3 — Golden Bay Cement ... 1 0 6 — OPERA HOUSE CO. In th'p report of tho Wellington Opera Houso Company, published in Saturday's Dominion, it was stated that the ncl prolit for tho year amounted to £151 13s. Bd. Tlio amount should have rend £3151 IS*. Bd. H was also stated that the amount brought forward from last year was £86 145., whereas the amount was £485 14s.

tho year ended September 30, 1916, shows that tho business has been fully maintained on' satisfactory lines, but tho net profit shows -a fallins-off, beinj £29,729, against £40,356 for tho previous year. Adding £24,667 brought forward, tho total available is £54,596. An interim dividend of Is. 6d. per share, a further dividend' of Is. 6d., and a bonus of 2s. iiro declared, beinff in all at ttio usual rate or 124 per cent, for Uio year. The mini ot £5000, or tho aamo as for tho previous year, is allocated to rcscrvo fund, making it £455,000, and a balance oE £24,596 is carried forward.

SHIPPING KEFEIGERATION. W. Wcddcl and Co., Limited, in their annual review of the frozon meat trade, giro a record of 283 steamers, having an! aggregate of 60,739,027 cubio feet of refrigerated ispaoc, whUo thcro ajo 40 steamers building with 12,079,200 cubio foot of addittotoal refrigerated space. London refrigeratins stores have & capacity of 9,018,800 cubic fret, which appears email in comparison ivith tho shipping- spao, which is etjual to tho carriage of ever 500,000 tons. The ship .with Lho greatest oarrying capacity has 440,000 cubic feet; but nine aro building with even a larger capacity. . ,

Customs duties collected, at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £6043 13s. 4d. .. . . ' MINING NEWS WELLINGTON 'SHARE MARKET. The quotations yesterday for mining shares yesterday wcro as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Murray Creek 110 0 — Waihii 113 6 — iSTOOK BXOHAHGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, April 25. Auckland Gas Co.. 28s. 6d.. Salo reported: Union Steam Ship Co., 455.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 8

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431

COMMERCIAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 8

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