COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 20983, 23 December 1931, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

THE WHEAT MARKET. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 22. (Received December 23, at 1.40 p.m.) Wheat cargoes' are quiet and closed a turn easier. About 25,000 tons of Australian wheat (April) for the Far East was sold. Four thousand tons, ex Anglo-Saxon, realised 28s 3d. Bulk parcels are in fair request at out ports, but trading is desultory. Australian is lower. Ex Bendigo, 28s T*d. Futures: London—December, 23s Id; February, 24s 3d; June, 25s 3-J-d. Liverpool : December, os li|d ; March, 5s 42c1; May, 5s 7Jd; July, 5s 9d. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 22. (Received December 23, at 1.10 p.m.) Bank of Australasia , £8 7s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £23 (ox dividend) ; Union Bank of Australia, £6 ss; National Bank of New Zealand, 67s 6d (ex dividend) ; Bank of Now Zealand 4 per cents., £B9 10s; Bank of New Zealand shares, 52s 6d; Loan and Mercantile 4 per cent, debentures, £57, ordinary stock, £37. PRICE OF GOLD. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 22. (Received December 23, at 1.10 p.m.) Fine gold is quoted at £6 Is lOd per oz. BUTTER AND CHEESE. Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received the following cable from London, dated December 22;—The butter and cheese markets are slow. Danish butter, 134 sto 1365; New Zealand finest butter, 97s to 995; Australian finest unsaltod butter, 104 s to 108 s; Australian finest salted butter, 96s to 98s; Australian G.A.Q. butter, 90s to 94. Australian cheese: White 55s to 565, coloured 54s to 555. New Zealand cheese; White 55s to 575, coloured 54s to 565. Canadian cheese; White 62s to 70s, coloured 64s to 70s, c.i.f. not quoted. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Christchurch.—Bank of New South Wales (late sale yesterday), £2B 12s 6d; New Zealand Refrigerating, 4s lOd; Okarito, 10s lid. Auckland.—Bank of New Zealand, 455. Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received a cable from their London office advising that an amalgamation has been arranged between the well-known woolbroking firms of Buxton, Ronald, and Co. and Ducroz, Doxat, and Co., to take effect from January 1, under the title Buxton, Ronald, Ducroz, and Co.