COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 12

COMMERCE AND MINING

THE STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET VERY QUIET. NO SALES REPORTED. Saturday’s calls on ’Change showed the market to be very quiet. Buyers were projvared to pnv T>s more than on Friaav for Inscribed Stock maturing in 1933, but Inscribed Stock (1938) remained 1 ass recently. ‘39 was in demand at «£93 10s. War Bonds (1939 aud 1941) were at .£94 12s fid. but '33 and *3B remained at recent rates. Nationals were at .£3 17s and Nationals (new issue) at <£s 15s, bufc Unions showed a slight decrease. Australasians and New Zealands were us recently quoted. Sellers were willing to take £9B 3s 6d for Inscribed Stock (1933) and War Bonds 1933), but Inscribed Stock (1938) remained at ,£94. Australasians, New Zealands and Unions were obtainable at recent rates. No sales were reported. WELLINGTON EXCHANGE. SATURDAY’S QUOTATIONS. (ID a.m. Call.) Buyers Sellers. ,£ s. d. £ a. d.

LONDON QUOTATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 2. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 30. Quotations on the Stock Exchange include Waihi Grand Junction shares, buyers 8s 9d, eellers 9s 9d; Waihi, buyers 31s 3d, sellers 33s 9d. FLUCTUATING MARK. A NEW RECORD REACHED. Australian And N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 2. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. The Berlin exchange rate has Teached 1750 marks to £l, a new record. WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Leery and Co., Ltd.. Wellington, report wholesale prices as follow: —Onions, Victorian Brown Spanish 17s per cwt; pota toes, Canterbury table, ton lots, white or Red Dakotas, £7 10s per ton, sacks in; ,barley meal, .£9 15s per ton; oatmeal, £lO 5s per ton; Farro 'ood, £8 ton; wheatmeal. for stock feed. £lolos ton; pig meal, £S ton; maize meal, 6s lOd per bushel; linseed meal (Moose brand), for calves, winter milk dairy cows, and pigs, 14s per 1001 b: linseed nuts (Moose brand), 13s 3d per 1091 b; rawt meal, for oonltry, 19s 6d per 1001 b; shell grit, in 1001 b bags, 6s 6d per bag; fowl wheat, choice whole five-sack lots or over, 5s 9d, leseer quantities 6s per bushel, sacks Is 2d: barley. Cape, 3s 7d bushel, sacks in; oats, machine-dressed, seed Algerians 4s lOd, crushed oats 4s, choice Duns 4s 4d, feed Duns 3s 4d to 3a sd, B Gartons 4s, feed Gartons 3a 5d to Ss 9d, eparrowbills, 3s 9d per bushel, sacks in; mixed fowl feed, 5 sack lots or over, 4s 10d per bushel, lesser quantities 5s per bushel, sacks in; peas, feed 6s, partridge peas, 9b 9d, blue peas 8s 9d per bushel, sacks in; maize, whole 6s crushed 6s 7d per bushel, sacks in; mutton birds, Taft, manian, in casks, 6d each. New Zealand, in kits, salted, 9d each; butter, farmers* separator and dairy, Is 4d per lb; eggs, fresh 2s 4d to 2s 6d per dozen, preserved Ip-fid to la 9d per dozen; fowls, hens 5s to 6s 6d per pair; heavy roosters 5s 6d to 7s6d pair; oucka, runners 13s to 14s per pair, white varieties 13s to 15s; geese, 12s pair; turkeys, lOd to lid per sb; hay, lucerne £7, meadow £4 10s per ton. ex More; baled straw, £3 15s per ton; rock salt, 7s per cwt; molasses, in 5 cwt casks, 42a 6d per cask; chaff, good bright, ton lots, £6 17s 6d ton, sacks in: mangolds, for stock feed, quotations upon application; dressed pork 60*s t'* 90’s, 6|d to 7d per lb. suckers 7d per lb; fungus, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb; basic slag, £7 5s ton; seed potatoes, Canterbury, Sutton's Supreme £lb Early Rose £9 10s, Arran Chief, Gamekeepers £7 10ft. Red Russets £6 Ifts; Up. to-dates -£9 10s per ton, sacks in. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. TOWNSEND AND PAUL. Messrs Townsend and Paul, Ltd., report as follows:—Weather conditions aro still unfavourable, but pales have improved for best grades, as only limited shipments have come to hand. We advise consignments of best grades first opportunity. The following are quotations for best grades:—Apples, Jonathans 8s to 10s, Delicious 14e to 18s, Munroed Ss, J/>rl .Wolseley* Bs, Doughertys 10s to lis, Romo Beauty 10s, BaJlarats Bs, Crowns 7s 6d, Enpls 5« 6d to 6e, Washingtons 7s to 8s; walnuts. Is 2d per lb; pears, Coles and Nelis 13« to 14s, Vicars Bs, P. Barry 9s. Hnster Beurte 6s 6d to Bs, Keitiers 8s; poor-man oranges. 10s box; Capo goosel>erries, 4s 6d per box; potatoes, £7 10s to £7 15s ton; lettuce, 7« per case; onions, Melbourne .£2O per ton; cabbages, good 8s sack; cauliflowers, 255; marrows, 3s sack; parnniys. fin; carrots, good fisfid sack; spinach, 5s case; pumpkins, 6s to 6s 6d sack, sales slow; eggs, fresh 2s 3d, cases 2s: fungus, wanted Is lb; butter, separator li* 3d lb; poultry, hens 4s 6d to ss, cockerels heavy Bs, light 5s fid to Cs, duck* 9s to 10s, geese 10s, turkeys Is lb; akin*, hides, fat and tallow, at market r rates; dressed po'k, 70’s to 100** 7d per lb, prime 7RI, ohoppors 41 d lb.

Mining— Waihi 1 10 3 Inscribed Stock (1939) 93 10 0 — Inscribed Stock (1938) 93 12 6 94 0 0 Inscribed Stock (1933) 97 15 0 98 2 6 War Bonds (1911) 93 13 6 — War Bonds (1959) 93 13 6 — War Bonds (1938) 93 12 6 — War Bond* (1833) 97 15 0 9S 2 6 banusAnstralasia 12 17 6 13 2 0 *5 17 0 National (New issue)... 5 25 0 — a it 6 12 0 Union 12 18 0 13 0 0 Financial — Goldsbrough Mort *o 0 0 National Mortgage ... *3 8 6 — N.Z. and River Plate Wn. Investment T. & 0 18 9 A Wn. Deposit and 0 9 0 0 8 0 Christchurch. 6 13 0 6 14 6 0 Wellington (ord.) Wellington, debenture 9 0 0 — Stock 101 10 0 — Insurance — New Zealand 1 9 3 South. British - 1 18 3 1 18 9 Meat Freezing—* N.Z. Refrigerating (*o N.Z. Refrigerating 1 6 3 (10s) 0 14 0 — Gear Wn. Meat Export 1 16 6 ( c fi5) 4 6 Transport— Hurkiart-Parker (ord.) 2 6 9 2 7 6 Union Steam (pref.) D 19 2 — Coal-*— Hikarangi (ord.) 0 9 9 Hikurangi (pref.) 0 9 9 — Westport 1 11 0 — Waipa 0 15 3 — Timber — Deyland O’Brien 1 13 0 _ Taringamnhi 1 7 6 1 10 0 Miscel Ianeous— C. M. Banks (ord.) ... 1 1 0 Dental and Medical ... Wairarapa Farmers — 1 3 0 (pref.) Wilson's Cement o i6 a 0 16 10 — *Cum div.