COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHAKES. , Transactions" in investment shares recorded on Saturday were Westport Coal, 285..6 d., and Wilson's Portland Cement. <ls. The buying and telling quotations were as under:- 1 - ' . --,-,■■ ■ ■-■■ ■-■ - Buyers. Sellers £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 6 2 0 Bank of New Zealand... It 0 0 — Union Bank 65 10 0- — Metropolitan v ..... 12 0 0 — National Mortgage 3 4 0 — Well. Investment 11l II 0 11 6 Well. Trust and Loan ... - 714 0 Foilding Ga3 116 .12 0 N.Z. Insurance — 4 5 0 Christchurch Meat 15 12 6 — Gear Meat (£ll 3 4 0 - Meat Export (£5) ...■ 6 5 0 — Meat Export (£4) ;. 5 3.6"' - Meat Export (52s 6d.) 3 0 0 — N.Z. Shipping 11 0 0 — Union' Steam 117 6 — Well. Woollen lord.) ...... - 4 0 0 Well. Woollen (pref,) ... 2 17 0 3 0 0 Taupiri . Coal 110. 12 0 Westport Coal '— 18 9 Leyland-O'Brien — 16 9 Manning and. Co. 4 10 0 4 12 0 N.Z. Con. Dental 12 6 13 6 N.Z. Paper Mills — 14 0 Sharland's ordinary 13 0 — Saarland's preference 13 0 — Taranaki Petroleum 0 14 6 0 16 6 Taringamu'tu Totara, 2 7 0 2 8 6 NEW ZEALAND, FROZEN MEAT. In the anuual review of the Frozen Meat Trade for 1910. issued by the Colonial Consignment and Distrimitiuc Gomnauy, Limitctt, there 'are some very interesting statistics. Tno tabic skowiug the approximate number of slicop aud lambs in New Zealand on April 31). 1910, and the percentage of sheep and lambs exported to the bnitcd Kingdom during the past year is as under:— ' - ■ . , No. of Exports Per Sheep, carcasses, cent. Auckland -1.2u6.a46 76,621) 6 22 Napier 3,819,318 645,613 14.28 Gisborne.. 2,093,983 398.556 19.03 Wellington - 6,700,015 1,159,264 19 9J Marlborough 1.362,059 150.275 1154 Canterbury 5,«6,464 2,2j'/.7t6 4114 Otago 4,563,435 821.476 18.C0

24,269,620 5.407,470 22.28 The perccntaeos have varied considerably when compared with 1909, ds tho following will' show:— 1910 1909. ' . ~ , Per cent. Per cent. •Auckland .- 0.22 8.51 Napier K2B 19.24 Gisborno 19.03 29.03 Wellington 19.99 22.05 Marlborough 11.54 10.98 Canterbury 41.14' 3156- . Otagb -.. 18.00 i;;.<J2 Total 22.28 21.44 All tho North Island, districts show decreases while, from the South, there are increases. The sain shown by Canterbury is exceptionally large. CanterUury Is tuc principal exporter of lamb, for, out of a total of 3,416,347 carcasses of New Zealand J : V2V b ,„, la,nded in tke United Kingdom, 1,643,622 carcasses,' or nearly 50 per cent of the total, were from the Canterburydistrict. In the exports of beef Wellington stands well 111 front of the other districts. Comparing the figures for the past two vcars we obtain the following:—' 1910." 1909. ... , quarters. Quarters. Auckland 34.473 11,602 £- l n ler 62,663 56.065 55,661 52.841 Wellington 183,709 173,119 Marlborough fa _ Canterbury 720: 770 ot!1 B° .'.: , 6,870; r , 2,934 344,162 ' 297.3J3 The imports of frozen beef into tho United Kingdom last year totalled 2,362.814 quarters, so that New Zealand's proportion to the total was only a small 011 c. CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue collected at the l°Ji ?! We'linKton on Saturday totalled £963 lis. Id., tho amount for tho week totalling £12.614 4s. 3d. Compared with the corresponding periods of last vear the re ccipts for the past eight weeks show as under:— • • £ £ 1911. mi) January 14 24.024 17 jgj January'2l 9,439 i'us January 28 25.246 20!336 February 4 12,958 11 «g February 11 7,372 21467 February 18 21,006 €,"335 February 25 27.001 13939 March 4 12,614 n^gg "5,660 iT8~585 The beer duty for the week totalled £275 6s. Bd., as conipa-rcd with £417 Is. for the corresponding week of last year.