COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 287, 23 August 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Sales of P. and O. Deferred Stock at £358 and C. M. Hanks shares at 245. weie made on 'Change yesterday. The quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 18 6 6 10 Bank N.Z. (old) 12 15 0 - Bank N.Z. (new) — 18 2 6 Equitable ttuildiuc 815 0 Metroaolitau Building ... 11 0 0 — National Mortgage 4 3 6 — Well. InvestuiL-m 01(J 7 — Well. Trust and Loan ... - 515 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 12 0 0 National Insurance 3 0 0 5 16 S.li. insurance — 6 6 6 Standard Insurance 2 3 0 - Meat Export (£5) 4 15 01 - Meat Export (£4) 3 15 0 - Auckland Trams (ord.) ... 0 19 6 —' Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... 119 9 2 0 9 Huddart-Parker (pref.) ... 1 0 6 112 N.Z. Shipping 10 10 0 — Union Steam 10 0 — P. and O. Def. Stock ... 357 0 0 359 0 U Well. Woollen (ord.) - 7 14 0 Well Woollen (pref.) ... 410 0 - Waipa Colliery 0 16 0 0 16 6 Kauri Timber (335.) 18 0 — Loylam'.-O'Brien 17 0 17 9 Taringamutu Totara. — 10 6 O. M. Banks. Ltd - 14 0 D.I.C. preference — 10 0 N.Z. Paper Mills - 1 2 10 Wilson's Cement — 1 10 3 NEW COMPANIIiiI REGISTERED. The "Mercantile Gazette" reports registration of the following new companies:— Macky, Caldwell Properties, Ltd., Auckland. Capital: £49,000 into 49,000 shares of £1 oach. Subscribers: Cambridge—D. ■It.' Caldwell. Auckland-T. H. Macky, D. A. Brown, W. B. Goudie, D. Littlejohn, J. Ward. E. J. Sexton—all one share each. Objects: To buy and deal in land, etc. W. A. Edwards and Co., Ltd., as a private company, Napier Capital; £2000 into 2000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Napier- W. A. Edwards, 6:0; S. T'wigg, 350; A. 11. Wilson, 550. Wellington—C. Evcrard, 100. Wairoa- 1i.8.-V. E. Winter. 350. Objects: To carry on business of auctioneers, fruit and produco merchants, furniture dealers, general dealers, wine and spirit merchants, land and estate agents, insurance agents, etc. Makomuko Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd.. Pahiat-ua, Capital: £1500 into 750 shares of £2 each. Subscribers: A Eddie, 20; Sarah Rising, 6; Mary Tait, 5; E. Ebbett, 25; Mary Sargent, 7; H Maekay, 15; Margaret Ness, 21; 0. Smith, 5; K. Gregory, 10; R. JI. Oliver, 22; il. Sowry, 20; Q. 11. Francis, 25; and others. Objects: Dairying and incidental. Glyn-Jones and Brown, Ltd.. private company, Wellington. Capital: £2MO into 2KO shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—W. J. Brown, 1000; Murie and Ritchie, Ltd., ICCO. Objects: To .acquire as a going concern tho businesses now carried on by W. J. Brown under the stylo of "GlynJoncs and Brown," and "Miller and Brown," at Wellington, as merchants, importers, etc. Tho Charles Haines Advertising Agency. Ltd., as a, private company, Wellington. Capital: £8000 into BCCO shares of £1 each. Subscribers- Wellington—Charles Haines, 5333; Will Appleton, 2667. To acquire as a, gonig concern the business of newspaper and general advertising agents heretofore carried on in New Zealand and elsewhere by Charles Hainer. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £4890 173. Id. AUSTRALIAN PEODUCE'f By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. August 22, 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, August 22. Oats, Algerian feeding, 4s. 6d ; milling, 4s. 9d.; Tasmanian, ss. 6d. Maizt, ss. 9d. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £5 10s. to £7 10s. Onions, £25. Adelaide, August 22. Oats, 3s. lOd.