COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10976, 11 August 1921, Page 10

COMMERCE AND MINING

V, i i.UIXCTON STOCK EXCHANGE. VKST Eli DA V 3 OUOT AT lONS. j Prices of investment anti mining stock.® i yesterday weru us ioUow Buyer.*. Sellers. j X a. d. 4 s. d. ;

'IA div. tfuiu div. SAr.ES IN OTHER CENTRES. AUCKLAND. August 10. Sale* on ’Change:—South British Insuavuvo. Ski* 3d; New Ze-aland liwunvnge. 29s Oil. 295, Reported sales:—South British Insurance. 36$ 3d: Wellington Wool, JSB 7s tkl; do. fjnvt'.), 47 Is fid; Bank of New Zealand. 48< fid. Sides, Bank of New Zealand, 4Ss 6d; Now Zealand Insurant-.' trx div.i, 295; South Briti-h Insurance, 36s 3d, :tss 6d. lY*s ad: Auckland Gas (emit.*. 22k 9d; Wellington Woollen <ord.>, Art 7s fid; Wellington Woollen {pref.i, X? 7s 6*l; Wilson's tVmwit. 15s. CHRISTCHURCH. August 10. Sales reported : Nat tonal Insurance, 42 10s tkl; Standard Insurance, 42 l2e and x2 12s Cd. DUNEDIN. August 10. Sides on ’Change:—Soldiers* Settlemea‘>, inscribed. 492 ."»s. J WAREHOUSE FIRM’S DIVIDEND. Australian anti X 7 t A-^ocintirn LONDON, August 9. D. and J. Fowler and Co., ware- I housemen. declare a dividend for the year of 7$ per cent., currying forward 4X3,330. WHEAT FREIGHTS. Australian and N.Z C*M« Association. LONDON. August 9The Australian wheat freight* are [ quoted firm; several steamer fixtures for September-October have been made at 75s per ton. - THE PRODUCE MARKET. CURRENT PRICES IN WELLINGTON. Messrs Ikfcery and Co-. Ltd., Wellington, report wholesale prices as follow: Crushed barley, As 6d ner bushel- naefc* in; Chevalier, 5e 6d per buahei, in -''s'.. P.-blue. 7s 6d nei bushel, sacks in; peas. feed. Gs per bushel, sacks ins crushed peas 7s 6d per bushel, sacks in; outs, Algerian seed, farmers’ dressed 4s4d bushel, sacks in; machino-dreseed' 2s 2d bushel, sacks in; oats, heavy Duns, ohoice 4s 7d por bushel, socks in; oats, Weetoats, for poultry feed, te bushel, sacks in; shelled oats, for chickens. 6s lOd per bushel, sacks in; teed Gartons, 4s 4d bushel, suck* in, Gorton* A grade 4s 6d per bushel, aacks in; crushed oats, 4a> 8d per bushel; Farro food, ton lots, 410 5s per ton; lucerne, 49 per ton; ricemeal, ’ 4U> 5s per ton; chaff, «>nteu sheaf, Blenheim prime, ton lot-. 47 15s per ton. sacks in free on trucks Wellington; fowls, hens 8 s to 10s 6d pair; heavy roosters, 9s to 12s pair; ducks, 12* to lie pair; geee«. 13* to 15* pair; turkeys, l« 4d to Is 7d per lb; eggs, tVesh, 2s Id to 2s 2d per dozen; shell grit, choice quality, 1001 d bags, 6s 6d per bag; onions, Victorian Brown Spanish, choice 49 10s ton* fowl wheat, ten sack lots whole 9s Id per bushel, lesser quantities On 3d. per bushel, sacks Is Sd; to eat meal. for poultry feed. Shs per loOib baes; coif ' meal. 49 per ton; peameal, ton lot*. 412 10s per ton, sacks in: mutton birds. Tasmanian, in yack* B*l each; New Zealand, in kits cooked Hid. salted *ljd; barU»y uu*al, ton lot*. 411 J*hi per ton. sack* in; numgoids, quotations upon application; pigmral, 49 per ton; mixed fowl fee*!. 7s 3d per bua~ hc- sacks in; poultry mash, 412 5s per ton; linseed oil meal, ton lots 414 per ton. lessor quantities, 14s 6d per 1001 b bugs, potatoes, Canterbury-grown, table ton Jot*, whites 44 12a 6d, Red Dakota* 45 per ton, sacks in; seed potatoes, Gamekeepers 46. Arran Thief 47, Early Puritans 48 10s, Dakotas 46, Maori Chief 47, Scotia* 45 10s; niolasees, In casks, each about 5 owt, 56s per cask; ghioken raiser, 23* per hundred.

FAT STOCK SALE. TRICES AT JOHNSON'VILLE. Mosrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., and Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report on the Johnsonville fat stock sale, hold on the* 10th instant, as follows: An average yarding came forward and met with a ready sale. The quality of the beef was not up to last week’s yard* ing, but made fully 2* per hundred more tham the previous sale. Best beef made 42 por hundred and medium 37s 6d. We quote:—Cattle: Best bullock, 414 2s 6d to 415; others, 411, 411 10s, 412 10« to 413 7s 6d; best oows, .£8 2s 6d, 48 15s to 49; others. 47 10s; best vealors. 44, 44 2s. 44 5* to 44 9s; others, email, .£2 to 4*2 ss. Sheep: Best wethers, 23*», 23s 5d to 23s 6d ; medium wethers. 20s 6d to 21s 3d? lighter wethers, 17s fid, 18h to 18s 3d; ewe*. 16«, 16s Id to 16s fid; lambs, 14s 2d, 14s 4d to 18s 3d. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue receives! nfc Wellington yesterday ♦ctallea 41467 19s Sd.

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