CHRISTCHURCH STOCK EXCHANGE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 10

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK EXCHANGE.

SATURDAY'S TRANSACTIONS. LATEST QUOTATIONS.

OTHER EXCHANGES. (PHBSS ' ASSOCIATION TEIZOKAXS.) AUCKLAND, February 15. Sales—-Bank of New Zealand (rights) 31s 6d; Auckland Gu> 24s 9d; Kauri Timber, 32s 6d.

NEW ZEALAND FROZEN MEAT.

SHIPPED FItOM NEW ZEALAND

Beef. Mutton. Lamh. Q'm. Ccs. C'ca. 1924 . ■■ ■„ < November .; 13,510 110,381 27,194 U.K. December .. 11,576 142,056 204,746' U.K. December ;.'25,256 1925 TTT , January .. 7,480 108,173 380,326 U.K.

. 32,566 360,610 612,266 . Killings at all works during 1924-25 season; commencing November Ist, 1924, to January; 31et, 1925: North South Island. Island. Total. Beef (qrs/i ... 87,538 901, 86,'439' W*therVut(c'c«.) 502,816 20,591 523,407 Ewe mutton (c'cs.) 20?,-138- 8,709 213 847 SS • l.°«> 334 ' 266 1-491,675 fto&iSy. o'cs.) 87,338 . 6,089 9*437 ■ Stocks on hand in New Zealand 31-1-25. North • South ■'■■■• laland. Island. Total.. BMrf-fQM.V : •• 59.U89- 1,042, 60,131 WdLr mut-.(p'0..) : 244 301 u 049 265*0 Ewe mutton c'cs.) 124,032 0,716 125,748 T.amb (c'cs) .. 374,982 140,656 515,&58 Sundries &ic'cs.> **,*&*&■ Stocks of frozen-meat loaded into Reamers not departed from New Zealand u at Beef (quarters) .. •• "'^ Mutton (carcases) .. •• i° 6 '* ! l Lamb (carcases) .. ■• . 39M 1 '

MURCHISON STOCK SALE. (jRESS ASSOCIATION. TILEGBAM.) ' MDRCHISON, February.l 4. For the stock sale at Murchison yester, day there was a record entry' of sheer.and i Zk« and ton urices were realised. There "S. I' b£attendance of buyers, Canterbury, Reelton and "Westport dealers operating, making competition keen. Wethers brought ?5s 9d* ewes 31s 6d, lambs 26*.t0-305.: A line of Romnev rams fetched . five . guineas each. Cattle were easy, with prices favourable to buyers.

BUTTER SHIPMENTS.'

(FBESS ASSOCIATION TXLEOBAK.) "WEILLINGTON, . February 15.

Mr T. C. Brash, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board,; advises that application has been made to the Overseas Shipowners' Allotment Committee for space for butter and cheese shipments in March as follows:—298,000 boxes of butter,- 108,qDO .crates- of cheese. The. -Allotment Committee has now advised that it has' •Hotted space for these quantities in steam-! era leaving New Zealand from the middle of March to the middle of April.

WHEAT. NEW YORK, February 13. Chicago wheat quotations are:—May, 182 cents per bushel; July, 153.2 cents;' September, 141| cents'. .. , • . (Received February loth, 11.40 p.m.)'. NEW YORK, February 14. '

tfiicago -wheat quotations—May 186J cents' per bushel, July'ls7J cents, September 145J cents. . ' '

ENGLISH MARKETS, (IT CABLI—PBMS ASSOCUTlOa—coftiuckt) (AUST*ALIAH AND N.Z. CABLE ASBOCIATIOX.) (Received February -15 th, 11.40 p.m.; LONDON, February 14.

Argentine, light B£d, medium 7£d; heavy Sid; North lsiandj light Sid, meaium BJd, heavy Bd. Now Zealand ewes, 7Jd. Axgentinee, light BJd, medium 7Jd, heavy 7d; ewes, 61d. Lambs—Canterbury, light 13d, medium 13d, heavy 12td; seconds 12id. , Other aelecteds— Light 12Jd, medium 12$ d; North Island, firsts lzjd, seconds le. Australian firsts, Victorian ll£d, others 11H; seconds, Victorian 102 d, others lOfcd, thirds, lOd. Argentine seconds 9£d. Chilled Beef—Argentine, -fores 5Jd, hinds 7d. Uruguayan,. fores sd, hinds 6Jd. , Other meats are unchanged.

' Cotton— Liverpool ' quotation: American middling upland, March delivery, 13.43 d a pound. • Rubber—Fine hard Para 17d a pound, jlintation first latex crepe - 17Jd, 9moked ribbed sheet 17gL itfi— lndian native first marks,, Febraary'March shipment £3B 7e 6d a ton. New Zealand' Hemp—March-May shipment £4O. ' -

aCopra— Bagged.South Sea, February-March shipment £2B Sa a ton. • Linseed Oil—£sl 5a a ton, equal to 4s lid a gallon. Turpentine—66a a cwt, equal to 4s lid a gallon.; Antimony—English £74 lOe a ton, foreign £6B to £69.

Buyer*. Seller) i. £ ■. d. £ s. a N.Z. GOVT. DEBENTURES— 4J p«r cent. Inscribed, 1938 and J939 — 97 0 0 ii per cent. Bonds, 1930 i 97 5 . 0 S per cent. Inscribed and Bonds, 1927 97 15 0 98 5 0 6£ per cent. Inscribed and Bonds, 1933 .. 100 12 6 — OTHER DEBENTURESChristchurch Drainage, 5$ per cent., 1938- - r 73 •■ '■ 97 15 0 — N.Z. Breweries Stock _- 1 2 <o N.Z. Breweries Bonds 1 1 ; 6 1 2 0 Glaxo 6i per cent., 1345 .. ... 83 0 0 — BANKS— Aust. Bank of Coram. — • 1 7 6 | Australasia — 14 5 0 1 Comni. of Aust. (cum " rights) .1 10 0 — Comra. of Aust. (rights) 0 7 6 ' 0 7" 9 National of Australasia '" (£'10 paid) — 15 15 0 Comm. of Sydney '..' 22 .7 6 23 5 0 National of' N.Z 6 15 0 6 16 6 New South Wales (cum div.) — 12 3 n New Zealand (ex rights) . 2 12 6 3 13 6 New Zealand (rights) .. 1 11 4 1 11 6 Royal (£1 paid) 1 14 6 1 15 6 Royal (.-£4 paid) 6 15 0 6 17 6 Uniou of Aust. — 14 3 6 Union of Aust. (new) — 14 5 0 INSITRAXCEStandard 2 1 9 2 3 0 LOAN AND AGENCYGoldsbrougb Mort. 2 8 9 2 . 9 ; '3 N.Z. Loan and Merc. (oTd. stock) 92 0 0 .— SHIPPING— Howard. Smith . — 1 15 6 Union (t>ref.) — 1 0 3 FROZEN MEAT— N.Z. Refrig. (10s paid) 0 10 3 0 10 9 WOOLLENS— llaiapoi (ord.) — ■ 0 14 0 Kaiapoi (con.) — 0 6 9 COAL— Wettport "I 12 3 1 13 6 Stockton (pref.) ft 4 10 0 6 0 GAS— Chmtchureb 7 8 0 7 15 0 Timaru .. . • 7 10 0 — CEMENTS— Wilson's i. 1 10 3 — TIMBER— . Kauri 1 12 0 1 13 0 MTSO^.LLAN'EOTJSBeath and Co. __. 1 13 0 Beath, P*>"'ess '".. 0 7 0 — Burns. Philp — 1 17 6 EJleciro. Zinc, (deferred) 1 6 6 ■ — Mason. Struthers • (£1 paid) . ... 1 2 0 1 * 0 • Mason Strrithers, (Hb .'. paid)' .: ■ 0 15 0 0 16 0 • . Mason. Struthers (10s paid) o n 0 — N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. (£5 paid)' " —- 2 15 0 N.Z. "Partners' Co-op. (£3 5s paid) 0 7 6 0- 8 6 N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. (6J per cent' cum . pref. re div. only) — 3 10 0 N.Z. Farmer*' Cn-on. (6J per cent. Stock, • 1930) 87 5 0 90 0 0 MTNINGMt. Lyell 1 2 0 — "Waibi — 1 6 3