THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 8

THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS. (3.15 p.m. Call.) Yesterday’s closing quotations for premiums of investment and mining 6tock» as advised by the Wellington Stock Exchange, are as follow : Buyers. Sellers. Xid £ • d

Sales reported: Westport Coal, £1 12s (two); Burns, Phi Ip and Co., £2 OS 3d. S. George Nathan and Co., Stock and Sharebrokers, members Wellington Stock Exchange, Tel. addrees» “Beta," Wellington.* SALES IN OTHER CENTRES Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 25. Sales.—New Zealand Government Wat Loan (1927), .£9B; National Bank of Australasia, ,£l7 13s 6d; Union Bank of Australia, £ls Is'(two sales);' Auckland Gas, 23s 3d; Huddart-Parker, 45s 9d; Kawarau, 6s 6d, 6s 7d (three sales). CHRISTCHURCH, January 25. Sales reported.—English, Scottish, and Australian Bank, «£7 15s (four parcels); Bank of New .South Wales, £44 (two parcels); Union Bank (cum div.), £ls Is; New Zealand and River Plate, 225; Wilson’s Cement, 35s 9d; N.Z. Refrigerating (con., cum. div.), 8s; Manning's Brewery, 43s 8d Sales on 'Change.—Bank of New Zealand, • 5Gs 9d; Beath and* Co.. 32s 6d; Mount Lyell, 25s 9d (two parcels). DUNEDIN, January 25. Sales on 'Change. Kawarau. 6s 6d (two sales); Loan and Mercantile. £92 (two sales); St. Bathans, 6s (prem.). Reported sales.—National Bank, £6 14s. SYDNEY WOOL SALES CBOSSBEEDS FALL IN PRICE. Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Received January 25, 11.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 25. At the wool sales there was good competition in all sections for good to medium merino, the prices for which ruled equal to late rates. Faulty sorts irregular and difficult of sale. Comebacks and crossbreds sold at 5 per cent, below last week’s rates. Greasy merino sold to 29d. DAIRY PRODUCE LONDON VALUES. The secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board advises having received the following cable from the London office of the board “Butter-»Market very firm. New Zealand, salted, 174 s to 1765; Danish, 181 s; Australian, 1665; Argentine, 1525. “Cheese—Market firm, but quiet. New Zealand, white 101 s, coloured 1055." It is estimated that 40 per cent, of available New Zealand butter is beifig withheld from the market by dairy companies, LOCAL VALUES Laery and Co., Ltd., report wholesale values as follow.:—Mixed fowl feed, 7s 6d per bushel, sacks in; linseed meal (Moose brand), 16s; linseed nuts (Moose brand), 14s; meat meal, for poultry, 13s per owt; oyster shell grit or pipi shell grit, 6s 6d per 1001 b; maize. 7s 3d. crushed 7e 9d per bushel; oats, machine dressed seed Algerians 5s 9d. farmers* dressed seed Algerians 4<s lOd. crushed 5s 6d, Duns 5s Ski to 6s 6d, Gartons 4s 9d to 5s 2d per bushel, sacks in; shelled oats, for chickens 6s per bushel; sacks in; partridge peas, 7s 6d per bushel; wheat, milling, 8s 6d to 8s 9a per bushel, sacks in; barley, 5s 4d to 5s 9d per bushel, sacks in; eggs, .first grade new laid 2s, storekeepers* Is 9d to Is lOd per dozen; butter, farmers’ separator and dairy. Is to la Id; fowls^White Leghorns.4e 6d to 6s (>d, Black Orpingtons and similar varieties 7s to 8s per pair; turkeys, Is Id to Is 2d per lb; ducks, runners 7s 6d to 9s 6d, large white 10s to 12s per pair; fungus, 8d per lb; dressed pork, 60’s to 90’s Gkl to 7d per lb; sucking pigs, lOd to lid per lb; sucrosine, £l2; inolass meal, £ll per ton; Blenheim chaff, ton lots. £lO 5s per ton, sacks in; rock salt, 6s 6d per bag; molasses, in casks 42s 6d a caSk, in cwt cases 8s 9d per case; mutton birds, in casks of 500, 7d per bird; bran, J-ton lots or over, £lO per ton; pollard, 4-ton lots or over, £ll per ton. PROPERTY SALE AT LOWER HUTT Mr H. Ernest Leighton reports that at tile sale of the Sunshine Estate, Lower Htitt, on the ground on Saturday last, there was a good attendance and a Ween demand for the sections and house, every lot but three small ones being sold. Tli© following are the prices realised:— Lot 1, £925 ; 4, £195: 0, £195; 7. £195; 8, £300; 9, £300; 10, £300; 11, £3(H). The balance are in the auctioneer's hands lor sale. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The Customs revenue received at the port of Wellington yesterday aggiegatcu 1 £10,672.

N.Z. Govt. Loans— Inscribed Stock (1939) 96 0 0 — Inscribed Stock (1938) 96 6 0 — inscribed Stock (19271941) — 97 7 6 Inscribed Stock (1944) — 87 0 0 War Bonds (1941) — 97 7 6 War Bonds (1939) 96 0 0 — War Bonds (1938) ...:.. 96 0 0 —* War Bonds (1930) 96 10 0 — P.O. Inscribed Stock (5 p.c.) 97 15 0 — P.(J. Bonds (5 p.c.) ... 97 15 0 —* Debentures— N.Z. Breweries (bonds) 1 5 6 1 6 0 Banks— National of N N.Z 6 13 0 — New Zealand 2 16 8 2 17 0 P. and O. Bank. Coyp. 9 5 0 — Union of Australia ... — *15 1 u Financial— Abraham and Williams (ord.) . — 4 6 0 National Mortgage .... 3 15 6 3 16 N.Z. Guarantee Corn. (ord., 8s) —. 0 10 0 N.Z. Invest., Mort. and Deposit — 0 9 9 N.Z. Loan and Here. (ord.) — 92 0 0 Wn. Invest. T. and A. — 0 10 9 Gas— Wellington (ord.) *13 5 0 — insurance— 1 National — 1 0 0 New Zealand *1 18 0 — South British 2 14 6 — Meat Preserving— N.Z. Eefrig. (10s) *0 8 3 0 8 6 Transport— liuddart-Parker (ord.) 2 5 0 — Goal — Westport 1.12 0 -1 3 W aipa — 0 17 Timber— Kauri — 1 12 .6 Leyland, O'Brien — 2 1 3 National ; — 1 2 9 Bartholomew *— 1 4 0 Breweries— Manning and Co 2 3 6 2 4 0 Staples and Co — 2 1 0 N.Z. Breweries 2 19 3 2 19 9 Ward and Co — 3 18 6 Miscellaneous— Burns, Philp and Co. — 2 1 u Kiectrol. Zinc (pref.)... 1 16 0 *1 16 9 Farmers' Co-op. Auctioneering (pref. A). — 0 18 6 Newton King (pref.)... — 0 17 0 N.Z. Drug — 3 7 9 Wairarapa Farmers (pref.) 0 17 0 — Wilson's Cement 1 lo 3 — Mining— Mt. Lyell — 1 6 0 Waihi — 1 i 6 Kaivarau 0 6 0 0 7 0 # Cum. div.