COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 156, 21 March 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. ■ Yesterday's tjuolations for investment shares wero as follow— • ■ •. Buyers. Hellem. a s. <i. £ i. d. National Bank 5 9 0 511 0 Bank N.Z. (old) .-. 12 7 0 12 9 0 Bank H.Z. (new) 17 6 0 - Equitable Building 90 0' 95 i> Metropolitan Building ... 11 3 0 — N.Z. and Biver P;ate ... 116 9 N — National Insurance 3 0 o — S.B. insurance 6 2 6 — N.Z. Refrigerating ■:£« ..- — 2 0 6 Auckland Trains 1.0 3 10 9 Huddart-Parkor (pref.) ..109 116 Union Steam (pref.) 110 12 0 Kmapoi'Wonllcn lord) ..720 — West-port Coal .: :. 110 0' 111 0 Waipa Colliery - 0 19 3 Manning and Co. 3 0 l> N.Z. Paper Mills .-...--O 19 6 Sharliud (crd.) '. 18 3 ■ : — ■ .Ward and Co —' ;•'5 10 I) ■ LOOAIi SALES OF BUTTER. Already 27H2 boxes, 0r.'68 tons, of butter have- been withdrawn--for the local trade from .stocks for export held-in freezing stores. There-is in impression that anybody can purchaEe this , butter, which ia /sold at the 'rate of 157s."per c'wt. (or two boxes), and sold in euantitiesVcif uot lefe» than two boxes. The fact-is.the butter ifl not-sold eicept to people who sell butter wholesale or retail, ahe' regulation governing the business restricts sales to "retailors and others concerned iu-tho retail butter bueinens in. the—Wellington' difi--trict.". Home butt.'.r -has"been sold to institutions on this basis/tout the idea cl the scheme is. to supply' tho trade •mlyThe butter lias gono in the first-instance to uaokers to b'e made up in the familiar one-pound pats, and then vesold to retailers for their usual counter trade. But few, if any, retailers have bought butter in bulk under this scheme. ■-■

Customs duties collected; at the port of Wellington yesterday amouuted to £6807 12s. lii. .-■ '■'■:;.'■,