COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 239, 3 July 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

I _ , INVESTMENT SHARES. I Sales of Loan and Mercantile Stock at at £115 was reported, and a sale of Hud-dart-Parker ordinary shares at 435. (id. was made on 'Change yesterday. The quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Seilein. £ a. d. £ a. n. National Bank 6 10 0 — Bank N.S.W 38 12 6 39 6 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 13 18 6 14 2 6 Bank N.Z. (£6 135. 4d.)... IB 5 0 - Union Bank 59 0 0 - — Loan and Mercantile ...' — 116 0 0 Well. Deposit 0 8 3 - Well. Gas (£10) 11 14 0 12 0 0 Well. Gas (pref.) ............ oil 7-,6 - National Insurance ....319 3 — N.Z. Insurance 14 10 0 1415 0 S. British Insurance 8 0 0 i 3 0 N.Z. Refrigerating - 310 0 MeafExport f£s) 5 19 0 - • Meat Export (£4) 4 17 0 - 1 . Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) 3 3 0 - Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... 2 3 6 2 4 0 P. and O. Def. Stock ... 453 0 0 500 0 0 ■ Kaia.poi Woollen 8 4 0 8 8 0 WrII. Woollen (ord.) ... 8 0 0 -

Well. Woollen (pref.) 5 3 6 - Wcstport Coal 19 6 110 0 Leyland-O'Urien Timber .17 6 — Colonial Sugar 24 0 0 - Colonial Sugar 20 5 0 Golden Bay Cement — i 019 3 Manning and Co 3 5 0 — Consolidated Dental 16 0 — N.Z. Drug 2 15 0 - Paper Mills 17 0 18 0 Bharland and Oo 1 10 9 — Wilson'B Cement 016 6 — Wairarapa x-'arinerß ...... • — , 611 0 Inscribed Stock ' - 9610 0 5 p.c. Bonds 98 0 0 — 5 p.c. Inscribed Stock ... 98 0 0 - CUSTOMS REVENUE. Customs' revenue collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £6195 12a. 7d. MEAT COMPANY FUSION. Messrs. Nelson Brothers' meat works at Tomoana, (Hawke's Bay), and Taruheva (Gisborne). • which were recently reported sold, were, it is. stated, purchased by Mcasrß. Vestey Brothers, of tho Union Cold Storage, trading in New Zealand as W. and R. Fletcher, Ltd., with head office :n Auckland. The price payable is £600,000, represented as to £500,000 by 6 per cent, mortgages, allocated among the different properties, and as to £100,000 by 6 per cent, preference shares in the Union Cold Storage Company. Ltd. Messrs. Nelson Brothers are also interested in tho Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company to tho extent of £224,495 of . tho £225,000 ordinary Bhareß of. the company. The arrangements involved tho £10 preference shares to bo fully paid, £1- preference share for every fully paid £1 preference shares for every five £1 ordinary shares. LONDON WOOL SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, (Reo. July 2, 8.50' p.m.) London, July 1. At the wool sales there was a good attendance and keen competition for greasy merinos. French buyers were . operating freely. The niaa-ket is firm for all sorts at recent rates.—Press Assn. ' LONDON PRODUOE MARKETS. London, June 28 (delayed). Copra.—South Sea, £66 per ton. Jute—June to July, £56 per ton. Hemp, Ju'ne-A'ugust, £52. Rubber—Para, 29Jd. nor pound; plantation, 2Ud.: smoked, 20Jd. Cotton.-July delivery, 20.70 d. per pound.