COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 13 December 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Prices of investment stocks yesterday were as follow:— Buyors. Sellers. „,.,„, £ s.'d. £s. <i. National Bank 419 9 5 0 6 Union Bank — 54 0 0 N.Z. and River Plate .... — Jli Well. Invest. T. and A.... - ' 010 6 •Gear Meat (£4) 18 0 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 410 0 - , Union Steam (prof.) — 119 Waipa. Coal — 0 18 9 Westport-Stockton (ord.) 0 6 4 - Leyland-O'Bricn 3 2 6 — N.Z. Drug .; ; 2 7 6 — ■ W.F.O.A. (£5) 6 5 0 - Taranaki Oil Wells 0 0 8 - Cum div. Sale—Wellington Gas (prcf.), 19s. (r.). Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £9882. CANTERBURY WHEAT MARKET-. By Telegraph—Press Association. Cllrlstchurch, December 12. The action of the Government in having the duty taken off imported flour has brought the wheat and (lour market almost to a standstill. One of the first rosults was to increase the offerings of ■wheat by growers, and several lines of Hunter's Tuscan changed hands at ss. 6d. at country stations, but millers and merchants a<ro now 1 not offering- this price in view of the conference of wheat growers to be held on Thursday, and that a certain proposal is to be put forward by the Minister. Millers are not inclined to make further purchases, or would probably dot offer more than ss. at country stations.