COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2940, 28 November 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. „ , , ■ £a. d. £6. d. Bank Australasia 115 0 0 — National Bank 5 0 0 — Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.)... - 17 7 6 Union Bank — 54 0 0 N.Z. and River Plate — 2 10 Well. Invest. T. and A. ... — 010 9 Well. Gas. (pref.) — • 019 3 Gear Meat (£1) 4 10 0 - Well. Heat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) '. - 3 2 6 Well. Moat Export (£1 155.) - 2 t 0 Union Steam (ord.) -.... — 2 4 9 Nnirm Steam (pref.) 116 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... 1 3 9 14 9 Well. Woollen (ord.) — 6 0 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) .... — 317 6 Westport-Stockton (ord.) 0 6 2 0 6 6 Leyland-O'Brien 13 0 — Taranaki Oil Wells 0 0 6 — . Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £1722 18s. lid. .. WHOLESALE PBODUOE PRICES. Messrs. Leary and C-0., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows:—Fowl's wheat, prime 6s. 9d. per bushel, medium 6s. 7d. per bushel; Jowl's barley, 3s. lOd. per bushel; Australian Cape barley, 4s. 6d. per bushel; New Zealand Cape barley, 3s. 10d.; maize, feed, ss. 6d. to ss. 9d. per bushel; chaff oatsheaf, £6 ss. per ton, sacks in; hay clover, £4 10s. to £5 per ton; flour in sacks, £15 10s. per ton; oatmeal, 7's £21, 25's £19; bran, £4 15s. per ton; pollard, £7 10s. per ton; bacon. (all best factory), sides 10»d. per lb., rolls Hid. per lb., hams Is. per lb., shoulders 9*d.; oheese (factory), medium, 10d. per lb.; cheese (factory), loaf, lid. per lb.; linseed nuts, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed ground cake, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; Victorian Brown Spanish onions, £14 to £14 10s. per ton; potatoes, whiteskinned table £14 per ton; pig-meal, £6 per ton; all poultry in very good demand: hens, 4s. to Bs. per pair, cockerels. 6s. 6d. to 9s. per pair; ducks (Pekin and Aylesbury), 9s. to 10s.;. ducks (Indian Runners), ss. to;.6s. per pair; turkeys (gobblers;. Is. Is. l to' Is. 2d., per lb.; turkeys (hens), Is. per lb.; butter (prime bulk), Is. 3d. per lb.; eggs, fresh, Is. sd. to Is. 6d.'per doz. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLED REPORT. The Department of Agriculture', Industries, and Commerce has received the following cablegram, dated London, November 25, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand.. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot):— Meat—New Zealand frozen meat prices, are .unchanged. Government. is selling slowly, owing to large supply of Homekilled mutton and beef and Scotch lambs. New. Zealand mutton is very scarce, per lb. 8 3-Bd.; ewe mutton, Bd.; Argentine mutton, heavy-weight, Bid.: light-weight, Bfd.; New Zealand lamb. 9ld-; Argentiue lamb, B£d.; New Zealand bull beef, hinds 7d.,' fores 6d.; Argentine chilled beef, hinds BJd., fores 7id. Butter—The market continues firm. Dunish, market is very quiet, per cwt. 2165. to 2205.; Irish creamery, salted, 2045. to 2085.; unsalted 208s. to 2125.; Australian, salted 2045. to 2085., unsalted 2065. to 2125.; NewZealand, no arrivals; Argentine,-unsalted, 2065. to 2085.; American creamery, salted, 190s. to 1925. Cheese.—'The market is. active and advancing. Canadian, whito and coloured, 1265. to 1285.; English oheddar, 130s. to 1325.; States flats, 1225. to 1265. Hemp.—The market remains firm; but is affected by expectations of light arrivals. Good fair New Zealand hemp, per ton £53 ; fair, £51; Government-graded fair Manila, £66 10s.; coarse, £53 10s.; January-March shipment, good fair New Zealand. £52; fair, £50 10s.; Government-graded fair Manila, £56; coarse,.£s3. Output / of hemp at Manila for the week ending last Saturday was 19.0C0 bales. Wheat—The market is quiet but steady, and business dull. _ Cannot quote, as quo* tations are misleading. Oats—The market is firm, with an Improved demand. New Zealand, on spot, 41s. Wool—The market is firm but unsettled, owing to reports concerning Government acquiring colonial clip. BUTTER.AND CHEESE. Australian-New Zealand Oable Association. London. November SS. Butter—The market is very firm. Danish i 6 scarce, at about 2245. . Choicest Australian salted is quoted at 2045. to 2065.; ; exceptional, 2085.; unsalted, 208s. to 2105.; exceptional, 2125.; secondary, 1965. to 2COs. All shipments are clearing directly they are landed. There will be no Zealand offering until the end of the month, when 32,000 cases are due. Cheese—Market firm. Canadian, white,, ■ 124b. to 1265.; coloured, 1265. to 128s. New' Zealand is nominal pending -arrivals.