Business Gossip

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 176, 15 October 1927, Page 12

Business Gossip

Guarantee Corporation. —The annual meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Guarantee Corporation was held in Wellington yesterday. Sir Joseph Ward, who presided, stated that despite unfavourable trading conditions the company had had a most satisfactory year. The reserves now totalled £20,000, and the losses incurred since the business commenced amounted to £620. This represented only one twenty-third of 1 per cent, of the money advanced. Messrs. T. M. Wilford and G. W. Magnus were re-elected to the directorate. New Companies. —Yesterday three new companies were registered in Auckland. Details are:—T. L. Hathaway, Limited, advertising writers, printers and stationers. Capital, £3OO in £1 shares. Subscribers: T. L. Hathaway, 150 shares; E J. Wright and T. A. Gouldmg, 75 shares each. E. Pask, Limited, sawmillers and timber merchants, Waipa. Capital, £6,000 in £1 shares. Subscribers: E. Pask, 5,900 shares; Rosa Pask, 95 shares; E. Bell, 5 shares. Rangiriri Motors, Limited, motor dealers. Capital, £4OO in £1 shares. Subscribers: r. j, Crawford and R. Crawford, 200 shares each. Wellington Hide, Skfn and Tallow Values. —At the usual fortnightly sale of hides, skins, tallow and sundries held at Wellington yesterday, states a Press Association message, prices ranged as f °Sheepskins. —Halfbred, 112 d to 14*d a lb.; fine crossbred, 12d to 14Jd; medium coarse crossbred, ll*d to 13*d; short half-wools, 9d to 13gd; lambs, B*d to 3.33 d; dead and damaged crossbred, 8d to ll*d; inferior and badly damaged, 4d to 83d; pcJts. s*d to 9d; damp, salted and green, 5s 9d to 13s 6d; salted pelts, 2s lOd to 3s sd; salted lambs, 2s Id to 5s 7d. Hides. —Ox, heavy, 701 b. and over, 9*d to 10 3-8 d; heavy ox, 9*d to 9 7-8 d; medium ox, 9 3-8 d to 9*d; light ox, B*d to 9Jd; cut, slippy and inferior, 6id to B*d; heavy cow, 8 5-8 d to 9*d; medium, 9d to 10 7-8 d; light, 9Jd to lid; cut, slippy and inferior, 6 3-8 d to 9 7-8 d; superior calf, 15 3-8 d to 16 5-8 d; medium and good, 14Jd to 15 l-8d; damaged. 133 d. Tallow. —ln casks, 24s to 24s 3d; in tans, 14s to 22s 9d. Horsehair. —2s*d to 26d; cow tails, 16d to 15Jd. COMING AUCTIONS Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons advertise elsewhere in this issue the places and dates of their country sales for the next few weeks, also particulars of their usual weekly sales. An auction sale of oak, rimu and kauri good used furniture, as well as a quantity of bedroom fittings and kitchen utensils, is being held by Mr. E. E. Carpenter, 183 Karangahape Road, on Monday next at 1.30 p.m. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons notify the sale at the Pukekohe yards on Tuesday, October 25, of 300 dairy cows and heifers, 200 head beef, 1,000 head store cattle, a pedigree Jersey bull, and 500 pigs. Mr. George Walker has been instructed by the official assignee to sell by public auction at his rooms, 38 Queen Street, on Monday next, at 11 a.m., a large; assortment of general groceries in a bankrupt estate. Messrs. J. R. Robertson, Ltd., have been instructed by the mortgagee to sell at their rooms, Queen Street, on Friday next, at 1 p.m., two cottages witli usual conveniences, situated at 5 and 7 Newton Road. Messrs. Milne and Meek, Jellicoe Chambers, are the solicitors. Messrs. J. R. Robertson, Ltd., have been instructed by the second mortgagee to sell at their rooms, Queen Street, on Friday next, at 1 p.m., a new bungalow of five rooms at No. 16 Rendall Place, Eden Terrace. Messrs. Milne and Meek, Jellicoe Chambers, are the solicitors. Messrs. Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd., have been instructed by the owner to sell, at their rooms, 83 Queen Street, c»n Friday, October 28, at 2 p.m., a handsome modern bungalow residence, situated at 20 Woodford Road, Mount Eden. The firm has also received instructions to sell, at the same time and place, a commodious family residence of nine rooms and offices, and several sections.