COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 90, 9 January 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as follow:—

Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. (i. Bank N.Z. (old) 12 1 6 Bank N.Z. (new) 17 0 0 - National Mortgage 317 6 — N.Z. and Kiver Plate ... 117 0 - Auckland Trams (ord.) ... 1 0 i — Well. Woollen (ord.) 6 12 0 - Westport Coal 19 3 1 10 0 Taringainutu Totara .... — 16 6

Customs duty collected at tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £4278 Is. lid.

SOUTHERN GRAIN PROSPECTS. By Telegraph-Press Association. Chrlslohurch, January 8. There is nothing fre3h to report in tlio grain market. The small shipment of wheat from Australia has been distributed among about seventeen mills in tho North Canterbury and ABhburton districts, and this supply will keep them goinc for about a fortnight, it is anticipated that this season's new wheat will be much softer than that of the past two seasons on account of. the wetter season, and that it will not be fit for milling until about March. Some of. the harder Australian wheat would be useful ior mixing purposes, bnt the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald (Minister of Agriculture) says he can giro no guarantee that the millers will get supplies of Australian wheat in proportion to the local wheat they bur-

There. aro no reports of any further business in new oats.

Only one sample of new barley has so far been submitted, and prices have not yet been agreed upon. It ia expected, however, that they will be about the Baine aa last year, although tho official figures relating to the actual area sown are not available.- It is eipeeted that the cost will bo about equal to that of last year, and the quality better.

LONDON METAL KAKKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association (Rec. January 8, 11.10 p.m.)

London, Jauary 7. Tin-Spot,£2Bl 6b.; three months, £275 10s, Bar silver, 45id. per ounce standard. Other metah are unchanged.