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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 43, 19 February 1909, Page 6

According to returns compiled by the "Trade Review," there was a shortage of £300,000 in the exports of the Dominion for the last quarter of 1908, as compared with the corresponding period of 1907. This, however, is more apparent than real. In wool alone there is a decrease of £353,592. The weight of wool shipments, however, shows a shortage of less than 5 per cent, equal in value to barely £57,000, so that to the extent of 000 the decrease is only a difference in valuations, and quite misleading, the valuations in December, 1007, having been ex- ! cessive. Moreover the December quarter is always an unsatisfactory one for purposes of •comparison. It is a busy time for! exports, and a little lateness or forwardness in" operations or in the season, or even"in the passing.of Customhouse entries, may affect the question whether the esiports are recorded in December or in January, a different month and year, <*nd "thus a fictitious' appearance of increase ox decrease maj-'he created* i