THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12363, 5 February 1926, Page 8

THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE YESTERD AY'S QUOTATIONS (3.15 p.m. Call.)

Yesterday’s closing quotations for preminums of investment and mining stock, as advised by the Wellington Stock Exchange, are as follow :

S. George Nathan and Co., Stock and Sharebrokers, members Wellington Stock Exchange. Tel. address: “Beta,” Wellington.* SALES IN OTHER CENTRES Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, February 4. Sale: 5J p.c. Soldiers' Bonds (1933), <£99 10s. Sales reported: Bank of New Zealand, 57s (two sales). AUCKLAND. February 4. Sales: New Zealand War Loan (1927), «£9B 2s fid; Auckland City Debentures (1930), £95 10s: New Zealand Breweries (Debentures), 25s 8d; Bank of New Zealand, 57s 3d; Union Bank, £l4 13s; New Zealand Insurance, 38s 7d; South British, 555; Auckland Gas, 22s sd; Northern Steam, 15s 3d; ‘Farmers’ Auctioneering (B Pref.). 17s: Taranaki Oil. 12s 9d; Union Oil and Soap, 41s 6d; Kawarau, 6s lOd (two sales). PRICE OF GOLD Australian snd N '/, Cab'«* Association (Received February 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. The price of-.gold is ,£4 4s llid per ounce. wheAt cargoes Australian and lI.Z Cable Association (Received February 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 3. Wheat cargoes have firmed on 6d to Is advance. The consumption is good and the demand better. The American tone for parcels is fair, and they are in request at fid to Is dearer. Liverpool futures are quoted at 12s bid for March delivery; 12s 2sd for May, and 12a for July delivery.

RABBITSKIN PRICES

NEW YORK AUCTION SALE. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association (Received February 4, 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 3. At auction prices for sixty-two tons of Australian rabbit skins averaged 10 per cent, above last October’s values. Tho sale ranged as follows New Zealand furriers, first winter skins, 226 cents (9s sd) per lb; rack, 90 cents (3s 9d); Australian firsts, 168 cents (7s); hatters, greasy, 65 cents (2s 8d) per lb.

PRODUCE MARKETS

AUSTRALIAN VALUES. By Telegranh.—Press Assn. —Copyright (Received February 4, 9.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 4. The quotations for Australian produce arc:— Wheat—Bagged 6s 3d ex trucks Sydney and 5s 8d at country sidings; bulk, 6s Id and 5s 6d per bushel respectively. Oats: Tasmanian Algerian, 4s 7d; white, 5s 10d per bushel. Maize: South African, 5s 10d per bushel. Potatoes: Tasmanian. «£lO 10s and ~£l2 per ton; Victorian, £9 and £lO. Onions: Victorian, £l2 and £l4. ADELAIDE, February 4. Wheat growers lots, 5s URI; parcels nominally, 6s 3d and 6s 4<] per bushel. Oats, 2s 9d and Ss per bushel. LONDON TALLOW MARKET The Bank of New Zealand (produce department) has received the following advice from its London office, under date 3rd instant:—"Tallow: There is a poor demand, and prices have weakened. Current quotations: Good mutton, 44s to 6d per cwt; good beef, 40s ed to 41s; good mixed, 40s to 40s fid; gut, 35s 6d to 38s/’ Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house, under date of the 3rd instant“llßs casks of tallow offered; 592 sold. Better descriptions are 6d per cwt. lower; other sorts nominally unchanged.” A press cablegram from London states that the price of tallow has declined 6d. and there is no demand. Good beef tallow is quoted at, spot, 45s fid to 40s; forward delivery, 42s 9d to 39s <kl. WANGANUI SALE Messrs .Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., report having offered a large yarding of filmep at. tho Wanganui sale on Wednesday, when practically the whole entry was sold. Quotations : 600 4-vear ewes, ex Lismore Station, 245: 500 cull lambs, 10s .Id; 250 woolly black-faced lambs, 18h; 150 4 ami 5-yoar ewes. 20s; UK) shorn black-faced lambs, 375; 100 2 ami 4-toot lied ewes. 26s 3d: cull lambs. 7s fid to IDs; 4 and 5-year Romney, rams, llgns. __

Buyers. Sellers. c£ 8 d. £ a. d. N.Z. Govt. Loans— Inscribed Stock (1938") —- 96 2 6 Inscribed Stock (1933) — 99 15 0 War Bonds (1941) —» 96 2 6 War Bonds (1939) — 96 5 0 War Bonds (1938) 96 0 0 — P.0. Inscribed Stock (1927) 98 0 0 — P.O. Bonds (1927) 98 0 0 — Debentures— N.Z. Breweries (bonds) — 1 6 0 Banks — New Soulh Wales — 44 7 6 New Zealand 2 16 9 — "Union of Australia ... — 14 14 0 Financial— Abraham and Williams (ord.) — 4 ff 0 Goldsbroiigh Mort — 2 8 3 National Mortgage ... S 15 0 — N.Z. Guarantee Corn. (ord, 8s) — 0 9 10* N.Z. Guarantee Corn. (nref.) — 1 2 6 *7.Z, Invest., Mortgage and Denosit — 0 9 C Gas— Wellington( ord.) 13 2 6t — insurance— National 3 18 9 3 19 9 New Zealand 1 18 6 *1 19 3 South British — 2 15 3 Standard Insurance ... 2 9 6 — Meat Preserving— N.Z.Refrigerating (.£1) tO 16 9 N.Z. Refrigerating 1 (10s) — •to 8 c Gear — 2 0 6 Transoort— lluddart-Parker (ord.) 2 5 9 2 6 6 Suddart-Parker (pref.) 1 0 6 Coal— Westport 1 12 9 1 13 6 IVaipa — 0 17 0 Timber— Leyland O'Brien 2 0 0 2 0 6 National — 1 2 6 Breweries— Manning and Co 2 2 6 2 3 3 Staples and Co — +1 19 6 N.Z. Breweries — 2 19 9 Miscellaneous— Burns. Phili> and Co. — 2 0 0 Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) 1 17 0 Farmers' Co-Op. Auctioning (pref. A) — 0 18 6 Howard Smith — 1 16 6 J&irkcnldie and Stains (pref.) — 1 0 0 Newton King (pref.)... — 0 17 0 N.Z. Drug — 3 10 0 Taranaki Oil Fields ... 0 12 6 Wellington Cordaae ... 0 16 0 Wilson's Cement 1 16 8 — Mining— >v aihi — 1 4 o Kawarau — 0 7 3 *Ex div. fCum div.