COMMERCE & MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9613, 20 March 1917, Page 2

COMMERCE & MINING

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. YESTERDAY’S QUOTATIONS.

QUOTATIONS ELSEWHERE. . Press Association. DUNEDIN. • March 19Stock Exchange sales: Union Steamship, £2 3s Du. Westport Coal, XX 7s. Mil burn Lime and Cement, x\ 13s 6d. Quotations:—Electric, buyers 3s “d, sellers 4s; Olrig, buyers 11s; Talisman, buyers Bs, sellers 9s; Waihi, buyers 81 13s Gd, sellers ill 15s: Waihi Grand junction, buyers 13s, sellers las; Nauonal Dank, buyers 85 Is; Bank of New Zealand (new), buyers .-817 2s; Bank of New Zealand (old), buyers 811 ss. sellers ill 10s- Standard Insurance, buyers 81 m 9d sellers 81 18s; Union Steamship, buyers .£2 3s 6d. sellers .82 4s; Union Steamship (pref.), sellers £1 Is; 'Westport Coal, buyers 81 7s 3d; D.T.C. (pref.). sellers 81 0s 9d; Dominion Rubber, buyers 83 0s Gd; McLeods Soap, buyers 814, 10s; Mosgiei Woollen, buyers 84 2s Gd; N.Z. Drug, buyers 82 95,6 d; N.Z. Portland Cement, buyers 13s, sellers 13s, N.Z. Paper Mills, sellers 19s 6d; Perpetual Trustees, buyers 81 Yvhitcombo and Tombs, sellers 86 7s 6d; Bruce Woollen, buyers 81 2s Gd.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram dated London March 17th, from tho High Oummissioner for New Zealand. (Note: Qootations. unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on. spot.) Meat.—Owing to decreasing supplies pt Home-killed mutton and beef, there is a better demand for all descriptions ot frozen meat with the result that Alcentine mutton and lamb prices-. are higher. New -Zealand mutton and lamb are in small supply, Prices - are unchanged. New Zealand and Australian mutton. B|d per lb; ewe mutton, 8kl: Argentine mutton, heavyweight, ll|d; lightweight, lUd; ew -„? ea J2 lamb. lOd; Argentine lamb, 13d; New Zealand bull beef hinds, 9dr fores. Sid, small supplies. Argentine beef in to supply. Argentine chilled beef, hinas. Hid;-fores, told. . . , Button—Prices have an. easier w™ency. Demand is mostly for salted butter. Unsalted butter in slow demand. no arrivals. New Zealand butter. per cwt, 218» to 2245; unsalted. 216 s to 2205; Australian, 206 s to - ] 4s; unsalted, 204 s to 2125; Argentine, 204 s to 2065;. American creamery, 2145. , * Cheese.—Market continues firm. Stocks are very light. Canadian white .Mid coloured, 126 s (VI (?); Stales flats, 100 s, English Cheddar, ns no supplies available. - Hemp.—Market fivin with an upward tendency. There is a general and active demand Giving to stock being almost exhausted. Good-fair New Zealand, 873;. fair. 870; Government graded fair Manilla, 892; coarse. 8/7. March to May shipment good-fair New Zealand, 871 i fair, ,868; Government graded fair Manila. 890; coarse, 8.5. These prices obtainable if shipment can be guaranteed. , 1 •... . YVheat—Market firm wrth_ improved demand. Very little offered in market. Australian, 84s:' Canadian. 82s; Argem B—Market 8 —Market active ami advancing. Supplies are decreasing. New Zealand. 525.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Laery and Co.. Ltd.. Allen street, report wholesale prices as . :—Fowls wheat, prime (is 9u »er bushel, i« I barley, 4s 8d per bushel. Cape barley 4s 9d per bushel; partridge peas, 8s 6d per bushel; maize feed, 5s 6d do 5s 9d pusiiei; crushed maize, 6s per bushel- chaff, oatsheaf, 86 10s per 'ton. hay,' clover, 85 10s per ton; hay. meadow. 85 par ton: dour in sacks. 816 10s per ton; oatmeal. So s, 822 per ton, pollard, 87 15s per ton; bran 8o 12s 6d per ton; bacon (all beat factory), sides Is per lb, rolls 1* Id per lb, hams Is Id per lb, shoulders 9Jd per lb: cheese (factory) medium lOd per lb: cheese, loaf, lid per lb; linseed oil meal. 100’s, . 811 tos per ton, 50 s, 813 poi ton. 20’s, 812 10s per ton : hnseecl nuts, 12s 6cl per cwt; linswl grnuHcnkfr, Jfs 6d oer cwt; whole linseed, 23spercwt; onions. 87 Ws to 88 per ton; potatoes, white skinned table,. A 7 10s per ton, pig moal, 86 10s per ton. All wul ry in vorv good demand. Hens, 3s. 6d 6s per pair; cockerels, 4s to 7a per pair; ducks, Pekin and Aylesbury 6s 6d to ta 6d per pair, Indian Runners 5s per pair; turkeys, gobblers Is Id to la 2d per lb live weight, hens lOd to Is per fb live weight. Butter, prime bulk. Is 4d per lb;’ eggs, fresh, 2s per dozen. WELLINGTON' CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue received at Wellington yesterday totalled 81004 17s 7d.

Buyers. Sellars. £ £ d £ s c Mining— Wailii 1 11 0 — Investment— National Hank 5 1 0 — Bk. N.Z. (T3 6s 8d) ... ii 5 0 — Bk. N.Z. (X6 13s -kl) 17 3 0 — Union of Australia ... iy 2 0 0 — Loan and Merc, (ord.) 82 0 0 — N.Z. and li. Plate ... — 1 18 9 Wn. Trust Loan 6 15 0 — N.Z. Insurance / i 0 ■ ,' Stli. British of N.Z. — i> io Iluddart-Parker ford.) 1 6 0 — Union Steam (ord.) ... Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) 6 7 G AVestport-Stockton — I.ovland-O’Brien 1 4 3 — N.Z. Drug (£Z) 2 8 6