COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12041, 20 January 1925, Page 12

COMMERCE AND MINING

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE |- YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS, i (3.15 p.m. Call.) The following' were the closing quotations on the Wellington Stock Exchange

•Cum div. jEx div. . Sale reported.—Wilson’s Cement, £1 10b. SALES IN OTHER CENTRES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 19.. Sales.—National of New Zealand, ,£6. I4s; Bank of New Zealand, 61s 9d; New Zealand Insurance, 31s 9dl; National Timber, Sis; Wilson's Cement. 30s. CHRISTCHURCH; Jannary 19. Sale on ''Change.—Christchurch Qas. 12s. ■ .■■■ ■"’/ ■ ’ ' ’ Sale on- 'Change.—Canterbury Publishing Co.,- XI 9s 6d., Sales reported.—Bank of New South Wales, £42; Goldsbrough Mort, 50s. HtTNEDIN, January 19. - Sales on ■'Change,—Dominion Rubber, 23s fid k Kawarau Gold, 225, 2& 3d. Sales reported.—National Bank of New Zealand. £6 15s; Bank of Australasia. Xl3 12s 64. ■ ’ BUTTER DECLINING HUGH SHIPMENTS AFLOAT. ■ The weekly ’cabled market report; received! by the New . Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association.!is as follows: , Butter.—Market is irregular and declining. - At present 1,500,000 boxes are afloat and discharging from New Zealand, Argentine and Australia, as against half the quantity last year. The decline has stopped all buying except for absolute daily requirements, and prices will not improve until; buyers operate more freely- ' To-day's ’ (Friday's) prices:—New Zealand, 152 s to 1545; Australian; 150 s to 1545; Argentine, 146 s to 150 s: Danish 196 sto J9Bs. . , ; Cheese.—Market is slow. • New Zealand, white and coloured’, 82s to 945. ' By Telegraph.—Press Assn..— Copyright. (Received January 19. 10.50 p.m.) . ■ ' MELBOURNE, January 19. ■ The wholesole price of butter has been .reduced. by 4s to -1265 1 per hundredweight. AUSTRALIAN WOOLS v’&VOFFERINGS GOOD. r-* ■■■ - ■ ! .... . Bv ( Telegraph'.—Preen Assn:—Copyright ■ (Received January 19, 10.50 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 19. At tho wool sales the bulk of the offerings are of ’ good quality. Bidding opened strongly and continued brisk throughout, Prices-of all descriptions were equal to Ia« week’s rates. LOGAL PRODUCE PRICES LAERY AND CO.'S REPORT. •Messrs Laery and Co.. Ltd., re-port-wholesale prices as follow: Piemeal. ■£7 10s per ton: farro food. £8 ■*? por ton; linseed meal (Moose brand) 16s 6d;-linseed, nuts. Moos© brffnd, 14s 6d: rn'eatmesl,. for poultry, J3s per cwt; oyster shell grit, 6s 6d per 1001 b; pipi shell grit. 6s 6d ’per. 1001 b: mixed fowl feed, ’7s per bushel, sacks in; maize, whole 7s 3d. crushed 7a 9d; oats, machine dressed .seed Algerians 5s »d, farmers' dressed seed Algerians 5s 2d, crushed 5s 4d. feed Algerians 4s ftd*, Duns 5s 3d per bushel, sacks in; shelled oats, f9r chickens. 55,-8d per bushel ; barley seeds 6s 9d, feed 6s 6d per bushel, sacks in; butter, farmers’ separator and dairy Is to Is. Id per lb; fowls. White Leenorns # 4s s 6d.to ss, Black Orpingtons, and similar varieties 7e to 8s per pair; cars, first grade, new laid. Is 8d to Is 9d >per dozen; turkeys, Is to Is 3d per lb; ducks, runners, 7s to 10s, large wbite ios to 13s per pair; fungus, 9d to lid per lb; dressed pork, 60’s to RO's, 7d per lb: snerosine. per ton: molas meal, per ton; chicken raiser, 10s per 100 lb; chaffy Tasmanian (in bags) £3, in n«les\£7 per toU; new potatoes, 11s to 13s 6d per cwt, - ' CUSTOMS RBVBNUE. . The Customs revenue;received at the* port of Wellington aggregated iJ4936.

yesterday:— Buyers. Sellers. M. M. d. JS e. d. Mining— b 6 6 Blackwater . — Mt. Lyeli ; 1 2 0 — Waihi — 1 6 0 Wairaraoa Gold Claims 0 5 0 Uaiia— Inscribed - Stock- (1939) . — 97 10 0 Inscribed),. Stock (193.S) 3710 0 Inscribed Stock (19^3) ICO 12- .6 War • B.onds (1939) — 97 10 6' War Bonds (1938) ...... — 97 10 0 War Bonds (1930) — 97 10 0 War Bonds (1933) ...... 100 5 0 B.C). Bonds (1937)-...... — 97 12 '6 • Debentures—\ - v Wn. ;?Harbour Board - 54 per cent. (1940) ... — 99 W-.O Bank**— . Australasia 13 11 0 — ■ New South Wales 41 10 0 — New Zealand 3 1 6 3 2 0 Union of Australia ... M 7 0 — ' Financial— Abraham and Williams Mord.) ;..... 4 0 0 • •• _- Equitable Building ... *9 S ’ 0 — N.Z. Guarantee Corp. tord.) 0 8 9 N.Z. Loan and Mercantile lord:) _ 97 0 0 Wn. Invest. T. and A. 0 10 0 0 10 6 . Gas — Wellington (£10) 13 r 6 *13 13 6 Well inn ton (bref.) ■ — a 17 o Insurance— National of N.Z 3 12 0 Squtih British 2 4 0 — Standard 2 2 0 — Meat Preserving—* N.Z. Kefrigerating (10s) — 0 12 4 Gear 3 10 Wn. Meat Export (.83 12s 6dl 1 11 b .. Transport— Huddart-Parker (ord.) 2 4 0 Union Steam (pref.) ... — 10 9 Coal— Westport — 1 14 0 Waina 0 19 6 10 3 T.imber — Kauri / 1 9 10 — Leyland-O'Brien 2 a 0 National It 1 3 6 1.4 3 Breweries — Crown 2 '6 0 2 10 0 N.Z. Breweries tl 8 0 . Miscellaneous— Colonial Sugar , 46 0 0 ' Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) •111 0 Howard Smith 118.3 N.Z. Drugs 0 4 6 NlZ. Paper Mills 1 1 0 ■ Wilson's Cement 1 10 0