COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11706, 19 December 1923, Page 12

COMMERCE AND MINING

IVC.II.Nm.',. . -l.'.Vola. YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS. (SU p m Call.) No sales were recorded on the Stock Exchange uffaiu yesterday, and things appeared to he quiet as a prelude to the holiday reason. i vices ot investment and mining stock*

•csterday were as follow: Buyers. Sellers. £a. d. JBb. d. Mining— Waihi ~~ 18 6 AVer Loans— _ Inscribed fctock (1933) 100 Id 0 War Bonds (1933) 101 0 0 - Banks— „ . Australasia 13 0 0 National 6 15 0 “ New South Wales .... - 40 10 0 New Zealand —2 9 6 -1® ? Union H 18 0 Financial — „ Equitable Building »»• 8 14 0 N.Z. Loan and Mer. (pref.) ••• * 77 0 0 „ Wellington Trust Loan 6li « Wellington (.£10) 13 10 0 14 0 0 Insurance — National 3 15 3 Meat Preserving— N.Z. Rofrig. (10s) 0 11 0 Wn. Meat Export (£3 _ „ „ 12s 6d) - a a o Transport— „ „ Huddart-Parker (ord) 2 1 9 22 6 Huddart-Parker (pref.) 10 6 Union Steam 10 0 Woollen — _ „ „„ . Kaiapoi (cont.) 0 9 9 010 0 Kaiapoi (ord.) Coal— . . ~ Taupiri (ord.) Tanpiri (pref.) 14 0 Kauri ' 1 8 3 19 3 Leyland O’Brien 1 18 0 Botoiti i a a Taringamutn 1 12 0 MiscellaneousDental and Medical Supply Howard Smith 2 11 0 N.Z. Paper Mills 12 6 W.F.C.A. (pref.) Ward and Co 2 16

•Ex div. SALES IN OTHER CENTRES. Per Press Association AUCKLAND, December 18. Sales reported.—Auckland Gas, 255; Wilson’s Cement, 28s. Sales. —New Zealand Breweries, £102; Bank of New Zealand, 50s 6d; Auckland Gas, 255; Auckland Gas (cont.), 3s 4d; Milne and Choyce Debenture, 22s 3d; Wilson’s Cement, 28s; Waihi, 28s. CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. Sales reported.—Bank of Australasia, £l3; New Zealand Insurance, 29s Id; Union Bank of Australia, £l4 17s 6d; i Canterbury Frozen Meat (pref.), £5 2s 6d. Salsa on 'Change.—New Zealand Breweries, 10 por cent debentures, £102; Bank of Australasia, £l3; Goldsbrough Mort, 45s 6d DUNEDIN, December 18. Sales.—P. and O. (deforred), £300; New Zealand Breweries (Ltd.), Stock, £lO5. Sale reported.—Bank of New Zealand (two), 50s. HOME MARKETS COMPETITION FOR WOOL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. At tho wool sales there was a miscellaneous selection, chiefly of crossbreds. Competition was animated, and prices were well maintained. New Zealand, W Meco. 33d. Tho Bradford market was firmer, prices favouring sellers. There was considerable activity in all grades. BAWRA’S WOOL BTOCKS TOTAL OF 269,193 BALES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 18. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. Bawra’s stocks of wool on November 30th amounted to 269,193 bales, of which 192,616 was Australian and 76,577 New Zealand. PRODUCE MARXET Larry and Co., Ltd., Wellington, report wholesale prices as follow s—Peameal. £9 10s; barley meal, .69 ss; pigmeal, £7 10s; wheatmeal, £11; linseed meal (Moose brand), 18s 6d; linseed nuts (Moose brand), 16s 6d; meat meal, fir poultry, 15s 6d; chicken raiser. 15s 6d; shell grit, 6s per 1001 b; fowl wheat, choice whole 5-sack lots or over 6s fid, lesser quantities 6s 7d per bushel, sacks Is Id; shelled oats, for chickens, 5s 9d per bushel; mixed fowl feed, 5 sacke or over, 5s 4d, lesser quantities 5s 6d per bushel, sacks in; oats, machine dressed seed Algerians 5s 6d, fanners dressed seed Algerians 5s 3d, feed Gartons 4s 2d, crushed oats 4s fid, Sparrowbills 4s, seed Gartons 4s 3d, Duns 4s Id per bushel, sacks in, duns, machine dressed, 5s per bushel, sacks in; peas, feed 5s 3d, Prussian Bine 8s; Partridge peas, ,7s 6d per bushel, sacks in: barley, feed 3s lOd to 4s fid per bushel; maize, whole 6s, crushed 6s. 6d; butter, farmers' separator and dairy, Is 2d to Is 3d per pound; eggs, new laid, Is 3d per dozen, storekeepers' lines Is to Is Id doz.; fowls. White Leghorns 4s fid to ss, Black Orpingtons and similar heavy varieties 7s to 7s fid pair; ducks, runners, good 7s to 9s per pair; inferior 5e to 6h; large white, 9s to 10a pair; turkeys, Is 3d to Is 4d per pound; geese, 10s to 12e pair; fungus, 5d to 6d lb; rock salt, 4s 6d re? cwt; dreesed pork, 60's to 90’s, 8d to BJd per lb; chaff, oaten sheaf, Blenheim prime £9 15s, Blenheim medium quality £7 10s per ton, sacks in, f.o.b. Wellington; straw chaff, for chickens or cow feod, £6 15s per ton, sacks in; new potatoes, 10s per cwt; Canterbury potatoes, suitable for table or pig feed, 5s per large' sack; bran, half Atm lots or over, £7; pollard, half ton lots or over, £8 15s per ton. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The Customs revenue collected in Wellington yesterday amounted to £6932. Some idea of the variation in the producing capacity of different cows is given in the returns prepared by the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-testing Associa- i lion, which is now testing some 30,000 cows throughout the Waikato. One cow, a live-year-old Shorthorn, owned by a Eureka farmer, cave 111.181 b of fat for the 30 days of November, and 135.661 b of butter-fat for 47 days up to December I 2nd. Another eow, a three-year-old Holstein, owned by a Tirau settler, gave only 5.41 b of fat for tho 30 days of November and 15.21 b of fat for 64 days up to December 2nd. The Tararua Co-operative Dairy Co.’s first shipment of cheese this season, per s.s. Rotorua, realisedWhite 108 s per cwt, coloured 110 s per cwt. The same company paid out ljd per lb butter-fat, being the final payment for last season’s supply, thus making tho total Is BJd T*r lb.