COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 12

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. i\ s. d. £ s. d. Bank Australasia 123 0 0 — National Bank 6 19 0 7 5 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s Bd, pd.) 13 16 0 - Bank.N.Z. (£6 13s id pd.) 18 0 0 - Metropolitan ■ 11 5 0 — National Mortgage 4 10 0 — Loan and Her. (0rd.)... 101 0, 0 — Loan and Mer. (pref.) ... 65 0 0 — Well. Investment 010 3 — Well.'.Trust and Loan... 5 13 0 — Wellington Deposit — 0 8 6 National Insurance 3 9 0 0 — N.Z. Insurance -. 12 0 0 — S.B. Insurance 7 7 0 tN.Z. Refrigerating 2 16 0 2 16 6 Meat Export (£4) '4 0 0 — Meat Export (£2 12s. Gd.) 2 11 0 - Auek. Trams (ord.) 019 0 — Auclt. Trams (pref.) 0 16 9 0 17 6 Union Steam (pref.) 113 — P. »and O. Def. Stork — 400 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 7 8 0 — West-port Coal 111 6 — Leylnnd-O'Brien (Timber) 17 3 — C. M. Banks 12 6 - Golden Bay Cement .... 018 9 — N.Z. Paper Mills - 12 6 lowland (ord. a".d rviit'.i 110 I) — j Wilßon (N.Z.) Port. Com. 0 14 10 0 15 3 N.Z. Inscribed Stock — • 97 0 0 War Bonds (1930) - 98 0 0 CUSTOMS REVENUE. ' - Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £1124 lis. 9d. UNION.BANK OF AUSTRALIA. The Wellington office of tho Union Bank of Australia has . issued tho following memorandum Cablo advice lias been received from London t.liat the extraordinary' general meeting held thero on February 11 has adopted the proposal for an increase of capital. i The issue will consist of 120,000 new shares of £75 each, of which £25 per share is to bo called up. Tho new shares will be allotted to shareholders in the proportion of one new share to four of the old issue at a premium of £25 per . thire. The allotment will be made in London and . New Zealand simultaneously to-day. LONDON METAL MARKETS. Austrs.'iar.-S'fv Zealand Cable Association. • (Kec. February 15, 10.40 p.m.) i ■ London, February 13. Copper, on spot, £79 10s. per ton; throe months, £71 10s. ' Spelter, ou spot, £48 per ton; three months, £40. Tin, on snot, £224 15s. per ton; three months, £223. Lead, on spot. £29 . per ton; three months, £25. \ Other metals are unchanged. ' VICTORIAN PRODUCE MARKET.' By Telegraph—P.'-;* Association—Copyright Melbourne. February 14. Barloy, English,' ss. 6d. to ss. lOd. .per bushel; Cape, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 6d. per bushel. Oats, milling, 4s. lOd. to ss. Id.; feed, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. per bushel. Potatoes, £9 10a. to £10 per ton. Onions, £12 per ton.