COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3038, 27 March 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Testerday's quotations for investment shares vroro as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £a. d. National Bank 5 16 — Bank N.Z. (£3 6b. Bd.) ... 11 6 0 1116 0 Union Bank 53 V 6 — Loan and Kerean. (ord.) 82 I) 0 ~ N.Z. and R. Plate 115 0 1 IB 9 Well. Invest. T. and A 0 11 0 0 11 6 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. 6 16 0 — Well. Dop. and Jlort - .0 7 6 N.Z. Insurance 7 7 0 7 9 0 Union Steam (prof.) 1 0 10 113 'Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... ——' 1 <i 3 Wostport Coal ■; 17 0 17 6 Westport-fltockton (ord.)'? — 0 7 6 Loyl&nd-O'Brlon 14 6 — Goldon Bay Cement — ' 110 •Oum div. Customs duties collected at tho port or Wellington yesterday amounted to £5176 9s. sd.

WHOLESALE FftODUCU PKICES. Messrs. Leery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wliolesalo prices as follow:—Fowl's wheat, prime, 6b. Sd. per buahel; fowl's barley, 4s. Bd. per bushel; Oapo barley, 4s. 9d. per bushel; Prussian blue peas, 17s. 6d. per bushel; partridge peas, Bs. 6d, per bushel; maize, faed, ss. 4d. to ss. 6d. per bushel; crushed maize, 6s. per bushel; chaff, oatsheflf, £6 10s. per ton; h&y, clover, £5 10s. per ' ten; hay, meailow, £5 per ton; flour, in saoks, £16 ss. per ton; oatmeal, 25's, £22 per ton; pollard, £7 15s. per ton; barley pollard, £7 per ton; bran, £5 12s. 6d. per ton; bacon (all best- factory), sides Is. Ojd. per lb., rolls Is. lid. per lb., hams Is. lid. per lb., shoulders IOJd. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium, lOd. por lb.; cheese, loaf, lid. per lb.; linseed meal, 100's £11 10a. per ton, 50's £12 per ton, IWs £12 10s. per ton; linseed nuts, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed ground cake, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; whole linseed, ■ 245. per owt.; onions, £8 per tons; potatoes, white-skinned table, £7 to £7 10s. per ton; pis meal, £6 10s. per tan. All poultry in rejry sjood Hens. 4s. to 6s. 6d. per pair; cockerels, ss. 6d. to 7s.<d. per pair; ducks, Pekin and Aylesbury Ba. to 9s. 6d. per pair, Indian Runners 6b. to 7s. per pair; butter (prime bulk), Is. 4d. per lb.; turkeys, cobblers Is. Id. per lb. live weight, hens lid. per lb. live weight; eggs, fresh 2s. per dozen, preserved Is. Bd. per dozen.

BIU.TISH TRADE OUTLOOK. Interesting light is thrown upon tho British trade outlook after the war by a paragraph in the annual review of the London Chamber of Commerce. Sheffield's trado prospects, it says, continue to bo of the .brightest. As lons as the war lasts, all Sheffield's activities must be devoted to the great purpose of winning it. Thero is no anticipation of anything in the nature of a slump when the war is over, but rather a. general expectation of a very opposite etate of things. Thero mutt be a hue* world demand for steel and ail kinds of Sheffield produots when peac« is restored, and all the vast extensions of works ■ whioh have been carried out will enable tho city to meet these demands In a way in whioh it could' never have beon dono before.

. HIGH COMMTSSIONER'fiWitKET REPORT. V Tho Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commorce has received, the following cablegram, dated London, March 24, from the High Commissioner ,'for New Zealand. (Note: Quotations, unless, otherwise specified, are average market prices oh spot):— Moat.—All descriptions of frozen meat in active demand, owing to short supply. Only a. small quantity under -Government control has been released each week for Home consumption. Now Zealand mutton, per lb., BJd.: ewo mutton, 81d.; Argentine mutton, heavy-weight,, lltd.; light-weight, llld.; New Zealand lamb, IM.: Argentine, lamb, 13d.; Now Zealand and Argentine beef, no supplies available. Fork, ltd. Butter.—Maximum prioes are unchanged for both butter and cheese, and will remain in force until April 13. Lower prices being quoted for colonial butters. Buyers aTe holding back partly owing to uncertainty of maximum prices.' New Zealand butter, unsalted, 2045. to 2125. nor owt.;'' salted, 210s. to 2185.; Australian, salted, 2025. to 20Js.; unsalted, 200s. to 2045.: French, 2125. to 2175. . Cheese.—Tho market continues firm. Canadian, white and colourod, 1625.; English Cheddar, lffis.i Dutoh Cheddar, 150 a.; States Flats, 160s. Hemp.—The market is firm at the advance. Supply falls short of tho domand. Quotations are nominal. Good-fair Now Zealand, £74; fair, £70; Government graded, fair Manila, £93; coarse, £7s; March to May Bhlpmcnt; good-fair New Zealand, £72; fair, £69; Government graded fair Manila, £93: coarse, £77. Wheat.—The market is strong, all stocks advancing. Very limited) supply. Australian, 845.; Canadian, 825.; Argentine, 81s. Oatß —Market remains firm. New Zoaland, 535. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOAN. , London, March 25. The South Australian loan of £1,400,000 has been issued at 97, carrying 6J -per cont. interest to replace the 4 per cent, stock bonds maturing on April 1, and was quiokly underwritten. The not yield to the investor •will bo about 119s. per cent.—AusN.Z. Cable Assn.