COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. A salo of Waipa. Colliery shares at 18s. 3d. was m'ado on 'Chance on Saturday., The quotations were as follow:— ~.. I £ s. d: £ b. d. N.Z. and Hirer Plato ... — - 117 0 Wellington Deposit — 0 7 6 Gisborno'Gas — 018 0 Well. Gas (£10) ..\ 13 15 0 — S.B. Insurance 6 2 0 — Huddart-Parkor (ord). ... 112 0 113 0 Union Steam (ord.) ; — 3 0 0 Union Steam (pref.) — 110 Well. Woollen (ord.) 6 5 0 6 10 0 Weatport Coal „ 111 0 111 6 Waipa Colliery ~.. 018 0 - s — Leyland-O'Brien 16 3 — Golden Bay Cement 10 9 — Ward and Co. - • 5 15 0 Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1917 15s. 6d.

NATIONAL BANK- OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED. The general manager of- tho Rational Bank o£ New Zealand, Limited, has received a cable message from his London Board' advising that the annual mcctine of th,e bank will, ho held in London on July J7iwhen it is proposed to declare, a .dividend of 6 per cent, for the halfyear, and bonus to shareholders of 1 per cent. on ,-paid-up capital, equalling. 13 per cent, for the year ended March 31 last. Tho sum of £15,000 has Been added to Iho llcscrvp Fund, which will then stand at £715,000, and -£42,700" caried forward. Tho directors liayc further allocated £20,000 in reduction ! oC Bank Promises Account, and have prantcd a bonus of 10 pev cent, to tho slalT.