COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 24184, 22 July 1940, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

THE RIALTO William Todd and Co. Ltd. report as follows for the week ended Saturday: Pigs.—Weaners, 19/- to £l/8/-; stores, £l/6/- to £l/19/-; porkers, I £2/8/6. i Poultry.—Hens, 2/- to 3/1; heavy j breeds, 3/6 to 4/5; ducks, 2/6 to 3/6; I pullets, 3/6 to 8/1; geese, 3/9 to 5/9. Bacon pigs.—Prime baconers, 1201 b to 1501 b, 7d per lb delivered to works. Produce.—Table potatoes are in heavy supply and the market, is dull. | Prime King Edwards, £5 to £5/10/-; onions, 11/- a cental; chaff, £6 to £6/5/-; straw, £3/10/-; hay, £4/10/to £5/10/-; oats, 13/6 to 17/6; wheat, 18/- to 21/-; barley, 17/6; huskless oats, 22/6; oatdust, 5/-; sorrell, 3/6; bran, 76/; pollard, 9/6; meat meal, 11/-; molasses, 20/-; rock salt, 10/6; coarse salt, 10/6; boneflour, 15/-; Moose Meal, 20/6; Moose Nuts, 20/-; oyster shell grit, 6/-. Miscellaneous.—Rabbit netting, 31/6; sheep netting, 29/6; tanks, 57/6; cement, 6/11; pickling barrels, 9/-; pumice boilers, £B/5/-; pumice washtubs, 55/-; concrete sheep boxes, 12/6; timber, 17/- to 19/-; droppers, 18/-; stakes, 40/-; posts, £B/10/- to £l2/10/- a 100; strainers, 12/6; horse covers, 40/-; cow covers, 11/6; draught collars, 42/6; hames, 12/6; bridles, 15/-; mutton birds, 1/-; Hulles powder strychnine, 4/-; carrots for rabbiters, 7/6 per cwt.

Vegetables.—Cabbage, 2/-; cauliflower, 6/-; carrots, parsnips and beetroot, Id to 2d per lb; leeks, 3/- a dozen bunches; Brussels sprouts, 6d per lb.

Early seed potatoes.—l2/- to 15/- per cwt; KC potato manure, 10/6; KC garden manure, 10/-; super, 6/6; bonedust, 12/6; blood and bone, 10/6; burnt lime, 4/6; carbonate of lime, 3/-; oyster shell, 2/-; 1401 b bags of Himber fish manure, 3/- a bag.

STOCK INDICES

(Received July 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Stock Indices Compiled by The Financial

NEW tORK Oow Jone* Averages 1926 100

FOREIGN EXCHANGES (Received July 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Paris, franc to £1 — j Amsterdam, florins to £1 — Montreal, dollar to £1 4.45 'Switzerland, franc to £1 17.75 I Stockholm, kroner to £1 540 | Athens, drachmae to £1 75.55 I Lisbon, escudo to £1 16.80 J Kobe, pence to yen 13 1-3 I Hong Kong, pence to dollar 14 1-3 (Shanghai, pence to dollar 37s Brussels, belgas to £1 — Rome, lire to £1 24.175 Tokyo, pence to yen 24.37 Copenhagen, kroner tn £1 — Oslo, kroner to £1 — ' Milan, lire to £1 72.50 Argentine, pesos to £1 68.00 ’ New York, dollar to £1 3.7114 THE METAL MARKET (Received July 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Silver.—Standard 22%d an ounce, fine 24 7-16 d. Pig Iron. —£5/11/- a ton. Antimony. -British £lO6 to £lO7, foreign £Bl to £B4. Tin.—Spot. £265/15/- buyers. £266 sellers; forward, £264/10/- buyers, £264/15/sellers. Molybdenite.—4B/- to 52/- a unit (nominal). Wolfram.—so/- (Chinese).

LESS MOVEMENT IN LAND Registrations of mortgages during May numbered 1999, valued at £1,473,091, and discharges numbered 2048 for an aggregate value of £1,380,781. A comparison of the first five months I of the current calendar year with a I similar period of 1939 reveals that both ■ registrations and discharges are on a | lower level than in 1939, the percentage | decreases being 20.8 in number and 1 28.1 in value for registrations, and 11.7 in number and 8.5 in value for discharges. Land transfers in May numbered 2649 for a total monetary consideration of £2,035,861, compared with 2395 transfers for a consideration of £2,018,623 in April. A comparison of land transfer registrations during the expired five months of the present calendar year with the corresponding period of 1939 reveals a decrease of 1325 (11.4 per cent.) in number and £451,470 (5.3 per cent.) in consideration.

CONSOLS AND STOCKS

(Received July 19, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 18. £ s d

MINING • ARGO DREDGE (United Press Association) GREYMOUTH, July 20. The Argo Dredge return was 20oz for 132 hours and 12,000 yards. RAW MATERIALS LONDON, July 20. Friday’s closing prices (last week’s in parentheses):— Rubber.—Para 14'ad per lb (15d); plantation smoked, 12Jd (12§d). Cotton.—Spot, 7.83 d per lb (7.98 d 1 August delivery, 7.23 d (7.42 d Linseed 0i1.—£44 a ton (£44). Turpentine.—s3/_ per cwt (53/-).

Times Gold mines October 15. 1926 — X00 Industrials Govt. Securities Home Rails June 27 106.5 32.2 63.7 136.6 June 29 106.4 32.8 66.9 138.0 July 1 107.1 33.8 69.4 137.0 July 3 108.5 35.3 72.0 135.3 July 9 109.0 36.6 72.9 138.9 July 10 108.8 36.1 71.8 137.5 July 11 108.7 36.0 72.2 136.7 July 12 108.7 35.7 72.0 135.7 July 15 108.7 35.7 72.1 135.7 July 16 108.7 35.8 72.2 136.8 Julv 17 108.6 35.7 71.2 136.8 July 18 108.5 36.5 70.8 137.8 July 19 108.3 36.5 70.2 139.2

20 Rail- ‘ roads. 30 Industrials. Sales 1000 shares June 18 25.63 123.21 720 June 22 25.56 122.83 200 June 2G 25.19 119.73 630 June 29 26.15 122.06 1170 July 3 25.84 120.96 380 July 10 25.99 121.49 280 July 14 25.05 121.48 120 July 15 26.10 121.72 230 July 16 26.33 123.12 440 July 17 26.35 122.82 380 July 18 26.49 123.00 220 July 19 26.40 122.18 260 July 20 26.26 121.87 110

Consols, 2>,2 72 5 0 Funding Loan, 4, 1960-90 110 10 0 War Loan, 3',4, 1952 99 0 0 Conversion Loan, 6*,4, 1916 98 10 0 Victory Bonds, 4 100 5 0 Commonwealth, 5, 1945-48 102 0 0 Commonwealth, 4. 1943-48 100 10 0 Commonwealth, 3>, 2 , 1948-53 97 15 0 Commonwealth. 3'/ 21 1956-61 88 5 0 Commonwealth, 3, 1955-58 85 2 6 New South Wales, 3‘, 2 , 1935-50 93 5 0 Victoria, 3, 1929-49 92 5 0 Victoria, 4%. 1940-60 100 0 0 Victoria, 5, 1945-75 102 0 0 Queensland, 3, 1942-47 93 2 6 Queensland. 5, 1940-60 100 0 0 South Australia, 3, 1916 (opt.) 70 2 6 South Australia, 5, 1945-75 101 2 6 West Australia. 4, 1942-62 98 12 6 Tasmania, 4, .1940-50 98 12 6 New Zealand. 4’/ 2 , 1948-58 100 12 G New Zealand, 3, 1948 93 15 0