COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 51, 23 November 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT BHAEBS. Prices of investment stocks yesterday were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ a. d. £ e. d. National Bank - 5 7 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... - 12 7 0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) - 1712 0 N.Z. and River Plate 1 16 3 - Napier Gaa (£10) - 14 0 0 8.8. Insurance — „ ?! ? N.Z. Hefrteerating (£10) - 19 10 0 Westport-Stockton tord.) 0 8 7 0 8 8 Waipa Goal - 018 3 Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to. sEZM 9s. 8d; COMPANIES EEGISTEEED. The following comDanies havo been registered :— : Canterbury Orchardists' Co-op., Ltd., registered as a private company/November 13, 1917. Office: 551 Colombo Street, Christchurch. Capital: £10,000, into 10,000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: J. Longton,"100; Charles P. Taylor, 50; George K. Anderson, 50; Ernest A. Stead, 50; Henry Wyatt, 30; Leonard Banks, 50; Arthur W. Mills, 50; J. W. Shields, 20; H. J. Howßon, 200; E. Freeman, 40. Objects: To purchaso land and to carry on at Christchurch or elsewhere the business o fsauce and pickle manufacturers, to cultivate land and to grow fruit and vegetables. Paramount Theatre Co., Ltd., registered November 2L 1917. Office: Perry Street, Ifastertpn. Capital: £1000, into 1000 ehares of £1 each. Subscribers: Masterton-H. P. Hugo, 100; J. Shearer, 100; F. J. Steel. 25; V. G. Darroch, 100; T. H. lugliam, 100;' A. V. Faulknor, 50; D. Walsh, 50. Objects: Picture show proprietors, otc. THE BOON'S OAEGO. Consignees of cargo from Germany in the b.s. Boon will bo interested to learn that the secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce has received the following cablegram from tho Sydney Java Ships Management Committee:—"Harrison'e Orosfields, Batavia, cable as follow:—'Eoon selling all cargoes discharging oommenced agents prepared reserve goods represented delivery orders provided latter received course November." This means that tho Germans are selling goods in Java which were consigned to New Zealand and Australian importers, and were on their way to Australia when tho war broke out, and the Boon ran for Java and was interned there. """""' AUSTBALIAJT PEODUOE. By Telegraph-Press Aeeooiation-Oopyriitht (Bee. November 22, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, November 22. Oats, Algerian, feeding, 3s. 3d.; ljiillin?, 3s. 6(1., 3s. Bd.; Tasmanian, 3s. 10d., 4s. Maize, 4s. 9d. Potatoes, £3 to £11. Onions, £16 to £20. Adelaide, November 22. Oats, 2s. 6d, to 2s. 7Jd.