COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 66, 11 December 1919, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment Hhares were a-i follow:— Buyers. Sellers £ a.d. £ s. d. Inscribed Stock. 1938 94 17 6 — War Bonds, 1938 ..../. 94 17 6 95 5 0 6 p.c. P.O. Bonds 93 0 0 - Commercial Bank (prcf.) 6 10 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 .6s. Ed.) ... - 1419 0 Union Bank — 13 5 0 Abraham and Williams 5 5 0 5 10 0 Loan and liercaittlle .... — 120 0 0 River Plate 2 4 0 — Standard Insuranco 3 0 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating 14 0 14 3 Gear Meat (£1) 8 0 0 - Meat Export (£2 12s. 5d.) (cum) — 4 2 0 Huddart-Parkvjr (ord.) ... 2 8 0 2 8 6 Iluddart-Parker (pref:) ... 1 0 6 — P. and 0. Def. Stock ... - 620 0 0 Well. Woollen (now prcf.) 5 10 6 — Westport Coal — 1 11 3 Waipa Colliery 0 12 6 0 10 0 lieyiand-O'lirien Timber 1 710 — Ta'ringamutu-Totara. (cum) 12 6 - Colonial Sugar lAutf.) ... — « 5 0 Colonial Sugar 'Fiji) ... 20 10 0 - Dunlop Rubber 116 6 — D.I.C. (pref.) 110 Golden Bay Cement 10 0 — Howard Smith 116 9 — Paper Mills 110 3 — Sharland and Co. „ 1 14 6 — Ward and Co 6 10 0 — Well. Cordage — 1 1 6 Wilson Cement — 015 8 FLUENZOL PROPRIETARY. 'LTD. Tho annual report of Fluenzol Proprietary, Ltd., just placed in the hands of shareholders, statca that sales have increased to £5595, Licing over £0 per cent, in excess of last year's results, which were 30 per cent, ahead of tho preceding year's sales. Increased cost of manufacture, however, coupled -with tho non-raie-ing of prices to the public, had greatly curtailed profits, which amount to £560, as agaiiißt a profit of £69 the preceding year. Past losses havo not l'ceu wholly mado good. A legal opinion has liccn obtained as to tho payment for non-pay-ment) of a dividend, and this opinion will bo submitted to tho meeting Bhortly to bo leld in Wellington. CUSTOMS REVENUE. Customs revenue collected at, tho /port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £7813 16s. 7d. LONDON WOOL SALES.' Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having received tho following wool cablegram from thoir London agents, dated December 8: "Coarse crossbred?, 15 per cent, down; market- quiet."