COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 31, 31 October 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHABES. A sale of P. and O. deferred stock at £410 was reported yesterday morning. The Quotations were as follow:— ; Buyers. Sellers, £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 612 6 Bank N.B. Wales - 37 0 0 Bank N.Z. (old) 13 10 8 Bank N.Z. (new) -- 1812 6 Union Bunk .'. 69 0 0 — Equitable Building 9 5 0 — National Mortgage 4 8 0 — N.Z. and River Plato .... 119 6 - Well. Investment - 010 9 Well. Ti'Ußt and Loan ... 5 15 0 — Abraham and Williams (ord.) 50 0' - Ohrietchurch Gas 5 16 0 — Well. Gas (old) 11 0 0 U 15 0 Well. Gaa (pref.) 017 3 018 0 National Insurance - 3 8 0 N.Z. Insurance 11 0 0 . — 8.8. Insurance — 615 0 N.Z. Refrijeratinff 2 6 0 — Gear Meat (£4) 2010 0 Gear Meat (£1) 6 2 6 — Meat Export (625. 6d.) ... 2 11 0 2 12 6 Auckland Trams 0 19 0 — Huddart-Park'er lord.) .. 2 0 J 2 10 Huddart-Parker (pref .) ..113 115 P. and O. def. stock ... — 410 0 0 Westport Coal 111 6 - Kauri Timber (335.) 19 0 - Leyland-O'Brien 17 9 — Sharlsnd and Co 110 0 — Wilson's Cement — . 015 9

Customs duties' collected at tie tort of Wellington yesterday amounted to £G?« 6b. , 3d. ; ■ . COLONIAL BUGAB COMPANY. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Eec. October 30. 10 p.m.) Sydney October 30. At the half-yearly nieetine of the Colonial Suear Oomiiany, a net profit o{ £115,884 was reported. The total available lor attribution, inchidinc the dividnnd snares in the Fiji end New Zealand Com. puny. wa« £137,816. A dividend of 61 per cent, was declared. The chairman reported that the dry, cold weather during the autumn and winter had reduced tho crop by one-third of that obtained in 1917. The Pedorel Government had takeo over the 1918-19 crops under an agreement which forbade further procoedinge under the .prioe-fliine scheme for nearly tvo years,—Proas Abbu