WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1914, Page 3

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

' [Special to Express.] ! WELLINGTON, March 21. S Messrs Haicourt and Co. report'as ■ follows:^- ---:' "Sales: National Banks 106s 6d, : Bank of New Zealand, (rights) 95s f 6d, Waitangis Is. I""1/Quotations:' National Banks .seller ;l07s; Bank of New Zealand, (rights) ; seller 965: Cbristchiirch Gas (100s i paid), buyer 137s 6d ; Wellington Gas, ! (200s paid) buyer 3255, seller 3305; ! Cliristchurch Meats,.'buyer 315s y 'Union Steam, (ordinary) buyer 245; ■ Tarineamutu •-Sawmills, buyer 45s 6d; : W.F.C.A., (20s paid) seller 265; Ross, ;• seller 3s lid; Talismans, buyer 38s. I 6d, iselkr 40s; ' AVaihis, buyer 435, !'seller 44s 9d; Grand Junctions, buyer ; 25s 3d, ; seller 25s 6d; Waitangis, | buyer lid. •

i ■, ,'' ~ : I The annual statement of New Zea>- ' land's drink bill for 1913, furnished iby the Temperance authorities, gives i a total of £4,137,653, made up of .spirits £1,753,538, wines £294;112, • imported beer £89,763, and New Zea- | land beer £2,000,420. For 1912 the f total was £4,081,162, and the increase i is' £56,491, but taking per head of ! popiilation the amount last year was |£3 14s per head against £3 14s ll^d. i The quantities per head work out as j spirits .78 gallons, wines .181, and i beer 9.209. The statement points j out that the amount spent, on liquor* would pay the total railway expenditure interest on the .cost of railways 1 and leave enough to pay the sick and ' fun oral benefits of all friendly soj cieties in New Zealand. For a houee--1 hold of five porsons the average yearly expenditure is £18 10s.