COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 14

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares wcro as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. . £s. d. £8. a. National Hank 5 3 6 — Bank N.Z. (old) 12 5 0 - Bank N.Z. (new) ....?....:.. 17 5 0 -•. N.Z. and Biver Plate 116 6 — Well. Investment — 011 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 12 0 0 Well. Gas (pref.) - 0 IB 6 National Insurance 3 0 0 - S.B. Insurance ...a 6 0 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 4 15 0 - Auckland Trams (0rd.)... 10 6 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... - ■ 115 0 Kaiapoi "Woollen (ord.) .. 6 19 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) ....: 6 15 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) .... 4 4 0 - llikurangi Coal — Oil 1 Wcstport Coal 1 10 6 111 6 Waip'a Colliery — I) IS 3 Manning and Co 3 0 0 — X.Z. Papar Mills 019 0 019 6 NEW COMPANIES llegistration of the folljwing new companies is notified iu the "Mercantile Gaz utte":— Gruickshank, Miller and Co., Ltd., private- company, Auckland. Capital. £11,'jW':, into 11,000 shares of £1 Mieii. Subscriber!.: ■ Cnristohurch-A/Amlurson 1862. Wellington j -J. F. IV. Mills 1662, W. J. (iiey 1662. Auck- | land-W, J. Napier 1862, 11. L.-lteee 52, T : Cranob. 1166, J. G. Miller lio7, A. C. Steele .167. Objects—To carry on business at iicu-dware merchants and general inciden- j tal.- I kitchener State Coal Co., Ltd., private company, Auckland. Capital: £70C0, into | 140 shares of £40 each, Subsci ibers: Auok- i lan<W. Christie 9, A. i Delainore 17, It. T. P. E. Peacocke 20, W. J'. Delamoro !3, "W. B. Ellintrham 10, E. M. Peacocke 3. Manurewa—T. Elemau 5. Hamilton—H. Miller 1? Wangatapere-L. Marimani 6. Wha-nearei-W. H. Eeehrc 5, O. S. Olark 5, A. J. MTeod 20. Matamata-M. M'Dermott 5, TV. Gale 5. Objeets-To buy and sell land and General incidental. 0. 0. Boborts, Ltd., private company. Capital: £100,000, into 100,000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Brisbane, Q—O. C. Roberts 90,000, D. Carroll 10,000. Objects: To acquire from O. O. fioberts, of Brisbane, chemist, a patent granted in Australia for an improved means of destroying the prickly pear. . Increase of Capital :-Wnirarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd. Capital increased to £350,000 by tho creation of a further 100,000 shares, of £1 each. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington, yesterday amounted to WHS 9s. Id. , For .Tannary the Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington amounted to £102.685 10s. 2d., as compared with £100,836 12s. 6d. collected during the same month last year. Tho beer duty for last month amounted to £2364 7s. 7d. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. By Telegraph-Press Aeßociatton-Onprrlehi Sydnoyi February 1. The New South Wales Government is about to issue a large new loan at par, hearing interest at 62 per cent-Press Assn. iKcc. February 1, 5.5 p.m.) Londoni January 31. The New South Wales Government is asking the holders of its 3J per cent, slock, maturing in September, to convert their holdings into an equal amount of 6J per cents. Gash applications i»ro ?lso invited at par.