COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES, l'esterday's Quotations ■ for investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank N.Z. (old) 12 5 0 - N.SS. Loan and jler. (ord) 80 C C 64 0 0 National Insurance 3 0 0 — S.B: Insurance 6 0 0 — Gear Meat Co. (£1) 4 15 0 - Auck. Tram's. (ord.) 10 6 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... — 116 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 6 15 0 — Well. Woollen (pref.) 4 5 0 — Waipa Colliery 0 17 6 0 18 0 Taringamutu-Totara — 16 1) N.Z. Paper Mills 0 19 0 — Whitcombe & Tombs ... 6 15 0 — W.F.O.A. (£5) 6 5 0 ' Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £1560 9s. 7d. EQUITABLE BUILDING AND INVESTMENT . COMPANY. The' annual meeting of the Equitable Building and Investment Society of Wellington was to have been held at noon yesterday in the Chamber of, Commerce, but the number of shareholders present did not constitute a quorum. The meeting lapsed, and the shareholders asked to meet at the same place at noon today. Tho. balance-sheet of the society shows that, including the amount carricd forward from last year, the profit for 1917 amounted to £9566 lis. 4d. Of this an interim dividend, absorbing £3000 was paid in July last, and £1000 placed to reserve fund. This leaves £5566 lis. 4d. for appropriation, which the directors recommend should be allocated as follows: —To payment of further dividend of ss. per share, £3000; and to carry forward the balance, viz., £2566 lis. 4d. In September last itJie board subscribed tho further sum of £5000 to' tho New Zealand War Loan.