COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 288, 1 September 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. ■ Three sales of Huddart-Parkor shares at 495. 3d. were mado on 'Ohange on Saturday, and sale 3 of Bank of Now Zealand (£3 6s. Brt.) at £14 17s. od., and Waihi at EOs. wero reported. Tho Quotations were as follow Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank • — 610 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 14 15 0 14 18 6 Bank NX <£6 13s. 4d.) ... - 19 2 6 Union Bonk — CO 0 0 Equitable Building 90 0, — Loan and Mercantile ... — 120 0 0 Well. Investment 0 10 7 — Ohristchurch Gas — .686 Well. Gas - 10 0 0 National Insurance ......... 4 3 0 — N.Z. Insurance 110 9 — . Standard Insur'ce (cum.) — 3 2 6 N.Z. Kefryorating 4 9 6 — lluddarW-urker 2 9 3 2 9 5 Union Steam (pref.) — .116 P. & O. Deferred i Stock — 635 0 0 Westport Coal 18 3 19 6 LeyUuid-O'Brien Tiui'ber 1 ? ! Manning and Co.'.; 3 10 0 — N.Z. l'aper Mills 1 8 J — Ward and 00. 5 5 0 — Wilson's Cement 0 16 2 0 !6 4 Inscribed Stock — 96 7 6 War Bonds (1930) .'. 96 2 6 — o per cent. P.O. Bonds ... 98 5 0 — CUSTOMS KBVENUE.Customs revenue collected at tho port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1969 18s. Bd. For tho month the revenue . totalled £99,925 17s. 2d. as against £90,073 6s. 7d. collected in -August, 1918. The beer duty .for last month amounted to £2320 175., as compared with £1961 10s. Bd. collected in the same month last year. LONDON MARKET PH.IOES, Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association (Eec. August 31, 11.5 p.m.) London, August 30. Cotton.—September shipment, 19.49 cents. September-October shipment, £74 per ton. Hemp.—Steady; high point, Aogust-Octo-ber shipments, £51; October to December shipments, £49. Icubbor.-Pura, 293 d.; plantation, 25Jd.; smokod, 24Jd. Copra.—August to October shipments, £57. ' Linseed oil, £110. Turpentine, 130 a. LONDON TALLOW MARKET. The New; Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house under date A'ugust 27:—"The tallow market is better." ' HIDES DECLINING IN PRICE. Melbourne, August 30. Heavy hides have declined Id. to ljd.; kips, l? s d. to 2d,—Press Assn.