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COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:—

TOBACCO TRADE AT HOME. Thera is good reason (says January's "Tobacco") for assuming that the period

of anxiety through which the trade has been passing-and which with tho effluxion of time has become increasingly acute— as regards tho diminution of stocks of tobacco in tho bonded warehouses, will bo mitigated, if not ended. For soqio mouths only ono thousand tons of tobacco per month have boon imported, and seven thousand tons havo been used. Tho outlook had become so serious that tho supply to our army was jeopardised, ami smokers at homo were withiu a brief period of a rationing system. The Tobiicco Board of Control iiavo been cognisant of the danger of tho position for sotnu nine and have watched it carefully. They have ascertained from their adviaory committee tj<at tho opinion of this body is that tobacco is an absoluto essential to the welfare of tho Army and at least to tho workers at home. Tho Control Board are therefore asking that tobacco shall, with food and ammunition, be given priority of importation. The matter still requires official sanction, but thore is good reason to believe that the Comptroller of Shipping will take such action as will give effect to the recommendation. His decision is expected at once. It will probably cover the Quantity which will be authorised for importation during tho year. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £5993 15s.

Buyers. Sellers. • £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 5 10 6 EqultaHe rujldin* « 0 0 — Metropolitan Buildingr ... 11 3 0 — ' National Mortgage 4 2 6 — Loaii & Mer. (ord. stock) 8110 0 — N.Z. and River Plate 1 16 6 Wellington Deposit 0 9 0 Hokitika Gas — 5 0 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 12 0 0 S.B. Insurance 5 19 0 — Canterbury Moat 9 6 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating (new) — 2 0 6 Gear Meat (£1) .4 16 fi — Auckland Trams (ord.) ... 1 I) 6 — IluridartParkcr (ord.) ... — 1 19 6 Union Steam (pref.) 110' Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) .. — 7 2 6 Well. Woollen (ord.) 6 16 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) ... 4 6 0 - Westport Goal — 111 0 Taringamntu Totara — 12 6 N.Z. Paper Mills 0 19 4 - Bharland's (ord.) 115 —

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

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COMMERCIAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

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