COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18819, 6 March 1931, Page 12

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Unite! Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 5, 9.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 5. Wheat Is lifeless. Ex-trucks at Sydney, 2/1; at country stations, 1/6. Flour £7/10/-, pollard £4/5/-, bran £3/15/-. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £6/10/-. Onions, Victorian, Brown Spanish, £5. Oats, white, 2/6; Algerians, 2/9. Maize, 3/6. ADELAIDE, March 5. Wheat, 2/01. Flour, £6 10s. Oats, Algerian 1/6. Pollard, £4 10s; bran, £3 15s.

BUTTER AND CHEESE. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., has received the following cablegram from London:— Butter.—l2l/- to 122/-. Cheese. —White, 57/- to 58/-; coloured, 59/- to 60/-; market slow. THE SHARE MARKET. By Teleeraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, March 5. Sales on ’Change.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 14/8 (2), 14/9, 14/10; Bank of New Zealand, 48/6; Goldsbrough Mort. 20/9; Auckland Gas, 22/10; Waihi G.M., 15/7; Grand Junction 2/5. WELLINGTON, March 5. Sales reported.—Brit sh Tobacco Co. (ord.) £l/9/7; National Insurance Co., 13/-. CHRISTCHURCH, March 5.

■ Sales on ’Change.—New Zealand Government, 41 per cent, inscribed, 1938, £93/5/- (3); New Zealand Government 6 per cent., inscribed 1931, £99/17/6; Commercial Bank of Australia, 14/10, 14/11 (2); Commercial Bank of Australia (pref.), £5/16/-, £5/15/9; Bank of New Zealand, 48/6; National Insurance, 13/-; Goldsbrough Mort, 21/-; New Zealand Refrigerating (10/- paid), 2/4; New Zealand Breweries. 37/3 (3); Tooth’s Brewery, 21/3; British Tobacco, 29/7 29/6; Mount Lyell, 20/10; King Solomon. 1/101, 1/111; Mahaklpawa, 7!d, 7d, 7id; Okarito, 6/9, 6/8. Sales reported.—New Zealand Government, 51 per cent, inscribed 1933, £99/10/-' Commercial Bank of Australia (pref.), £5/16/-; Christchurch Building Society, £l2; Goldsbrough Mort, 21/-; Wilson’s Cement, 39/6. DUNEDIN, March 5. Sale on ’Change.—Okarito, 6/9. Sales reported.—King Solomon, 1/94; Commercial Bank, 14/9; National Bank of Australasia (cont.), £4/19/6.