COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

| INVESTMENT SHAKES. I' Sales were reported yesterday of 5 pel | cent, inscribed Stock ft I £96 5b.. and S Zealand Insurance sliaicb at £1 !«• «« f l'he Quotations were as follow^ £b. (1. £a. d «oi Inscribed Stock, 1939,1938 — , ®' 1 5 p.c. l'.O. Inscribed btock, _ { 1929 • — tio | National Bank - ° ' Bank New Zealand - f' " Union Hank _ , Abraham and Williams ° u ' G-oldsbroiisH Mort " ~ Well. Investment " Well. Dep. and MoctsaßO 0 9 0 - Ohristchurch Gas (£3) ... — H . Wi'll. Gas (£10) 10 0 0 \0 8 I K.7<. Insurance — * South British Insurance - »i» Standard Insurance - 41 U.Z. Refrigerating (£1) ... ! S ' ~ N. 7,. Hefrigeratintr (10s.) 14 0 \ 4 Well. Meat Exp. (£J 12s. H.) 4 7 6 - rimldart-PprkT (ord.) ... — }}J Westport Coal — ''J Wcstnort-fitoclcton (ord.) U S T.rvLand-O'Brien Timber 114 0 — D.1.0. (ord.) 0 16 9 I Sharland and Co 110 0 — Farmers '£5) 614 o —

CUSTOMS RETURNS. Customs returns for August show that £436,255 7s. Id. was collected in the port of Wellington during tho month, ns compared with £99,925 7s. 2d. for the same period last year. Deer duty, August, 1920. £3007 Is. 7d.; August, 1919, £2320 175.; gold ex- ■ ported, 1920, 4630z., value of £229; 1919, nil; silver, 17oz. (value £3); 1919, nil. Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington yesterday totalled £10,422 Is. 6d. By Telegraph-Press Association Auckland, August 31. The record sum of £200.081 was collcctcd in Customs duty at. Auckland during August, compared jyith £98,233 jor the samo month last year. The Custdms revenue collected during the last eight months totalled £1.190,616, as compared with £746,804 fnr tho corresponding eight months in 1919 DOLLAR EXOHANGE. According to private cable advico the dollar exchange London on New York on August 27 was 3.5® dollars to the £. LONDON METAL MARKET. . Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. , (Rec. August 31, 10.40 p.m.) London, August 30. Copper.—On spot. £94 16b. 3d. per ton; three months, £96 20. 6d.; electrolytic ingots, £111; wire bars, £117, Lead—On snot, £36 10s. per ton; threo months, £36 15n Spelter.—On spot. £40 per ton; three months, £41 10s. Tin—On spot, £273 ss. per ton; three months, £231 15s. Bar silver, 593 d. per ounce standard. EXCHANGE RATES. tßec. August 31, 9.5 p.m.) London, August 30. Foreign rates of exchange on London aro quoted :-Pnris, 51.47 francs to £1; Stockholm, 17 63 kroner; Christiania, 24.00 kroner; Montreal, 3.9S dollars; New York, 3.55$ dollars; Calcutta, 223 d. to rupee; ' Yokohama, 33f;d. to yen.