COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 203, 22 May 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. , , ■ Yesterday's quotations for shares were.as follow:— ■ I Buyers. Sellers. £s. d. £s. d. National Bank 6 4 6 rBank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... - 14 0 0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ...' - 1811 6 Equitable Building 9 2 6 — Well.' Investment 010 5 — Well. Trust and Loan ... 516 6 — Wellington Beposlt — ■ 0 10 0 Dalgety and Co — 10 6 0 Wellington Gas (£10) ... 1118 0 Wellington Gas (pref.)..." 017 3 — N.Z. Insurance 1310 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating 2 16 0 2 17 6 Meat- Export (£4) — , 4 5 .0 Meat Export' (£2128.61) 211 6 Auckland Trams (ord.) ... — 12 9 Huddart-Parker .(ord.) ... -2 0 4 2 1 0 TJ.S.B. Co. (pref:) 113 - P. and O. Defer. Stock 403 0 0 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) 713 6 — Wellington Woollen (ord.) 712 6 — Wellington Woollen (pref.) 4 16 .6 .— Weßtport Coal 111 6 112 3 Walpa Colliery. — 0 15 6 C. 11. Banks 13 0 - Crown Brewery .'.... 111 0 . — Golden Bay Dement — . 0 19 3 Whitcombe and Tombs 6 3 0, — . Wairarapa Farmers — 611.0 Inscribed. Stock, 1938 ....... — ," 97 0 0 Inscribed Stock, 1941 96 10 0 97 0 0 5 per cent. P.O. Bonds ... — 98 5 0 ■ The Commercial Bank of Australia, which commenced business in New Zealand in October, 1912, has now added to its branches by opening an establishment at Invercargill. It has now seven branches m New Zealand. Recently it acquired freehold property in Christichurch, where it is about to. build banking premises, and extensive additions and alterations are also to be made at the premises in Wei lington, where the head office for New Zealand'ii situated, ■ Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3519 ,Bs. 6d. LONDON WOOL SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, (ltec. May 21, 2.50 p.m.) . London, Jlay.l3 (delayed). • There was a thinner attendance at the London wool gales, but prices were unchanged. There were some irregularities in the faulties. Tho following prices were realised for fleece portions of the New Zealand clips named:—lt. and S. over T., 30d. and 29id.; Awarua, 52d. arid 40d. The Bradford market is exceedingly firm, and general quotations are higher all round except for low crossbreds. Tho protection' of prices is stopping actual business.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. • (Rcc. May 21, 2.50 p.m.) London, iMay 13 (delayed). The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., has declared an interim dividend of 2J. per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. METAL STOCKS, (Bee. May 21, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, May 20. Government stocks:— Copper, 5130 tons; spelter, 33,969 tons; aluminum. 11,542 tonB; pig-lead, 109,012t0n5; nickel, 2567 tons; aiitimouy, '4461 tons.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.