COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 8, 4 October 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. • A sale of P. and O: Deferred Stock at £402 was''made on 'Change yesterday. The quotations. were as follow. Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank 6 8 6 — Bank N.Z. (new) - IB 6 0 Union Bank 58 10 0 — National Mortgage 4 7 6 — Well. Trust and Loan ... 5 13 6 — Well. 6as (£10) - 1115 0 National Insurance 3 4 6 — South British Insurance — 619 0 N.Z. Refrigerating — 2 6 6 Auckland Trams '— -s 019 6 Huddart-Parker. (ord.) ... 2 2 U 2 4 0 Union Steam (pref.) 110 — P. and O. Def. Stock ... 4CO 0 0 405 0 0 Westport Goal 111 0 111 6 Westport-Stockton — 0 9 0 Waipa Colliery 0 15 11 — Kauri Timber (335.) — 111 0 Leyland-O'Brien 17 0 — D.I.C. preference 10 0 — Golden Bay- Cement ...... — 019 0 N.Z. Paper Mills 12 3 13 3 NEW COMPANIES. The "Mercantile Gazette" reports the re. gistration of the following new companies: John Swinson Co., Ltd.—Private company, Wellington. Capital: £1000, into ICCO shares of £1 each. SubEcribers: J. &win6on, 990; Ada Swinson, 10. Objects: To acquire as a going concern the business of advertising contractors heretofore carried on by John Swinson the style of "John Swinson Co." Wairoa Flaimillers, Ltd.—Private company, Foxton. Capital: £16,750. into 16,750 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington, Carroll and Co., Ltd., 1000; W. E. A. Gill, 2500; Catherine C. Bourke, 224; J. H. G. Rowley, SCO; fl'airoa, A. W. Hall, 4000; Foxton, Ohrißtina Pearson, 150: Annie Ross, 150; Foxton Cordage, and Flaxmilling Co., Ltd., 6396; J. W. Simes, G~, N.Z.8.F., 700; Sydney, E. G. Yaughan, llffi; and ten others with one share each. Objects: To acquire as a going concern the fla'xmillins business heretofore carried on by Carroll .and Co., Ltd., and the 01;uia FlaxmilH, "Ltd., both of Wairoa.

Customs duties collected at the port of 3Vellinffton yesterday amounted to £2683 16s. 6d. price op aluminium:. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, October 2. The Ministry of Munitions will reduce the control price of a.lvninium to £200 from January 1. ' • AUSTRALIAN' PRODUCE. By Telegraph-Press Asjociation-Oopyrislu (Rec. October 3, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, October 3. Oats, Algerian feeding, 4s.' 3d.; milling, 4s. 7d.; Tasmanian. ss. fid. Maize, ss. to bs. Potatoes, Tasmanian. £6 to £8 10s. ■ Onions, £36. , Adelaide.. October 3. Oats, 3s. 6d. MINING NEWS . WELLINGTON SHARE'MARKET. The quotations yesterday . for mining shares were as under:- . , Buyers.. Sellers, £ s. d. £ s. d. New Big River — ,'J• ?' ! Talisman '0 9 4 .0 J 9 Waihi .' 5 " ■ Grand Junction 0 1310 — Westland Gold 112 6 — .STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph. —l'ri'B3 Association. ' Auckland, October 3. Sales-Bank of New Zealand, £18 55.; Waipa, Coal, 165.; Auckland Gas. £1 7a,; Cement, 15s. Bd.; Risintc Sun. 2s. 9d. and 2s. lOd. Chrlstchurch, October 3. Sales reported—Wailii Grand Junction,. 14g.j Commercial Bank, 4)l' Oa. oa.; National Bank, £6 10b. GOLD DREDGING

LARGE P.ONTOOH' LAUNCHED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hokltika, October 3. • This afternoon, at Humphrey's Gully, the largest pontoon built in this district lyas 6uoce6sfully launched, in connection with the Chambers enterprise, an tmportant dredging proposition of the Westland Gold Prospecting Syndicate in the Arahura Gully. Mr. David Ziman, managing director, de'ivered- a short address, and complimentary speeches were made by the county chairman .of Westland and the Mayors of Hokitika and Kumara.