COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. A sale of Union Steam shares at 21s. 3d. was mndo on 'Chango on Saturday. The Quotations were as follow:— . Buyers.' Sellers. 1 £'b. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 6 8 0 National Bank (rights)... 0 8 0 0 9 0 Bank N.S. Wales - 39 5 0 Union Bank 56 0 0 •57 0 0 Equitable Building 9 0 0, — Metropolitan Building ... 11 7 6 — Loan and .Mercantile ...104 0 0 - .Well. Investment 0 10 4 — 'J'rust and Loau 5 16 0 Ohrist'elrurch lias 612 0 - Well. Gas (£10) 1110 0 Well. Gas (pref.) 017 3 K.Z. Insurance — 1216 0 Auckland Trams (pref.) 017 6 ■ ' — Auckland Trams (ord.) 116 — Huddart-Parkcr (ord.) ... 1 19 6 2 0 .0 Union Steam (prof.) 113 13 5 P. and O. Defer. Stock... 390 0 0 — Wcstnort Coal 111 3 - Waipa Collieries — 0 17 0 Leyland-O'Brien Timber 18 0 - C. 11. Banks 12 9 - Sharland. ord. and pref. 110 0 — Wairarapa Farmers — 6lt 0 War Bonds, 1938 - 97 0 0 War Bonds. 1930 - 97 5 C P.O. War Bonds, 5 p.c. ... 98 0 0 - N.Z.' INVESTMENT CO. Tho report of tho directors, to be submitted nt the annual meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Investment. Mortgage, and Deposit Company, Ltd., at tho Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday, May 1, states that the net profits on the year's business is £1893 13s. lid., to which must bo added £93 4s. 2d. brought forward from last year, making a total of £19E6 13b. Id. An interim dividend of 3 per tout., amounting to £626 13s. 4d.. was declared and paid for the half-year ended September 30, 1918. leaving £1158 4s. 9d. to bo dealt with. The directors recommend tho payment of a further dividend of 3 per cent, (making 6 per cent, for the year), which -will absorb £833 10s. 3d.; that £200 bo carried to the reserve fund, and thafr tho balance of £124 14s. Cd. he carried forward. Messrs. W. M. Muir and John 8. Swan aro tho directors who retire from the board in accordance with the articles of association, and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The audi- • tors (Messrs. Henry Kembcr and Son) offer themselves tor la-election.

CABLEGRAMS. . . , Tho Risterii/Exteusion Telegraphic Comnniiy advises:—"AH the rcmiest of Ilia Pacific Hoard wo Have, agreed to carry all outward Governments and I'resß trarac to ' -< ustralasia by our route up to April 12 in order to reduce delay at BamncM and -uvlato overluppinit of full-rato trafflu when transmission ill this class is resumed m Kastern. The Eastern lines have •Tlit (lays' delay on Far ».ft tratnc, but an improvement is expected shortly. All Porthourno cables are- now restored, but thero is pressure at Gibraltar, ...lug to Gibraltar and Malta, one, and ■ -xiuidria and Haltu, one and two, working simplex." Customs duties collected at tho port of Wellingifln on Saturday amounted to £«o7 108. 7(1. LONDON MARKETS. Australian-New Kcalauu usliie Association. London, April 5. Cntton.-May shipment. 15.59(1. per lb. Uemp.-Inactivo. High point, fair; April-June shipment, £52 per ton. Rubber.-Para, 291(1. per lb.; plantation, 235 d.; smoked sheets, 23Jd. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHAKE MARKET. The Qnlv ouotalion recorded in the mining market on Saturday was as under:- ' Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. rt Talisman — 0 8 3