TRADE RETURNS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
• WELLINGTON, Thursday,
The. value of the imports to all the ports of the colony for the quarter ended March. 31 was £3,282,748, compared with, £3,029,959 during the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The imports to the, four chief porfs were:-— Wellington, £ 1,042,436; Auckland, £.748,832; Dunedin,. £555,701; Lyttelton, £ 520,050.
During the quarter experts to the value of £5,405,031 left .the colony. From Wellington the exports were valued at £1,983,711; Lyttelton, £1,100,372; Auckland, £733,144; Dunedin, £458.203. ■•
The exports of dairy produce and meat for the month of April were as follows, the figures for the previous April being- given in parenthesis:—Butter,, 7633cwt, valued at £36,741 (20,888ewt,' £98,810); cheese, 8146cwt, valued at £21,804 (12,7130wt, £26,965); frozen beef, 10,3280wt, valued at £12,801 (30,302cwt, £35,542); frozen mutton, 162,603 carcases, 79,242cwt, valued at £93,553 (197,050 carcases, 99,985cwt, *£ 106,366); legs and pieces, 6694ewt, valued at £ 7424 (10,1430wt, £ 11,548) ; frozen lamb, 234,716 carcases, 74,674ewt, valued at £ 118,923 (332,798 carcases, 106,738cwt, £160,117).
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 109, 8 May 1903, Page 3
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