COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 192, 3 May 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. A sale of Taringamutu Totnra shares at 20s. was made on 'Change yesterday. Tire quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d Rational Bank — \ 5 7 6 Bank N.Z. (new) 17 10 0 17 11 0 Equitable Building 9 0 0 — Well. Investment — 0 11 0 Well. Trust and Loan ... 5 12 6 - Clich. Gas (£5) 5 15 0 6 0 0 Well. Gaa (pref.) 0 18 6 10 0 S.B. Insurance - 519 0 N.Z. Bef rigerating - 118.6 Huddart-Parker (pref.) ... 1 0 6 — Union Steam 'pref.) — 115 Oamaru Woolleu 110 0 — West-port Coal — 111 0 Wa-ipa Colliery — 017 9 Leyland-o'Brien 17 0 — Taringamutu I'otarn, .... 0 19 0 10 6 Oolden Bay Cement 0 17 8 - N.Z. Paper Mills 0 19 9 Sharland and Co. (ord.) .18 6 — • NEW COMPANIES. The ''.Mercantile Gazette" reports registration of the following new companies:— Radley and Co., Ltd., private cutupauy, Auckland; capital, £8000, iu 8000 "hares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington-G. 3. Eadlcy 6000, D. K. Kirlscr 2000. Objects; To deal in dairy produce, general merchants, auctioneers, Kcneral agents, ate. Ha-wke's Bay Wool Co., Ltd.. private company, West Olive, H. 8.; capital, £5000. in 5000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: C. C. Burke 4922, W. A. Puller 26, M. F. Burke 26, W. E. A. Gill 25. Objects: To acijulru from Jlrs. C. C. Burke as a going concern the business of wool-scourer and fellmonger carried on at Riverside. CEMKNT COMPANY MERGER. At a, meeting of (hareholders in the New Zealuml Portland Cement Company, held in Auckland. It was resolved to amalgamate the three large Auckland cement companies, with a view to reducing the cost, of production. The meeting agreed to the formation of a new company, to ho known as the Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland Cement Company, both the Wilsons Portland Cement Company and tho Dominion Portland Cement. Company having already agreed to co-oporato in the .scheme. The. plants and assets of the three companies will ho taken over, and it will then be decided by the directors of the now comuany which of tho works is to remain in operation. One or both of the other plants will be closed until Hiich time as the demand for ceinr.nl in Now Zealand justifies the. reopeniug of one or both o£ them.

Customs duties collectod at tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2162 18s. lid.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT!. Br Telojraph—Press Association-Copyright (Kco. May 2, 11.15 p.m.) ' Sydney, May 2. Oate, Algerian, feeding, 4s. 3d.; milting 1 , 4s. 6(1.; Tasmanians, ss. 6(1. Mair.s, 4n, M., ss. Potatoes Tasnianiaus, £5, £5 10s. Onions, £12 10s., £13. Adelaide, May 2. Oats, 3s. 9d.