GROWING TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 4

GROWING TRADE.

BIG ADVANCE IN EXPORTS,

CUSTOMS DUTIES INCREASE.

The hfdk of trade at the port of Auckland dicing the month ended yesterday; was bijger than that of Majch, 1912, both matter of exports and imports. Satisfactory to state, the ratio of increase is most marked in respect of agricjltural and pastoral exports. Butter s/iipments show an enlargement to £i 03,335, as compared with £85,055 for the .corresponding month of last' year, and with £43,125 for March, 1911. The woW exports^—! ed\ _36jl_* r ' against ££.283 for March of last year, while frosen meat, cheese, flax, and kauri -urn alto showed considerable increases. The god,exports are also recovering well alter the serious falling off which . cceurred during last year.' The following jahlc shows the principal items of export, kith a comparison for the' precedind nonth of March:— ""■ -'■ f

1912. 1913. : I ' •'■ ■>'■' '" '■■ _ ■ ■<■ £ I Butter ..... ; 85,055 ,f ..- 103.33-S Cheese ; 8,417 .. 9J328 -Flax and tow ..... 1,296 .. 12,058 Kauri gum ....... 20,221 .. 33,903 Timber ...._-..... 25d76 '■■■'. :. 20,23* ' Tallow ....... 1,502 .. 4,681> i Wool. 62J283 .. 136,42* Frozen meat . : 6,897 '. . • 10,960 Hides and skins .... 3,522 .. 6,224 G o\d .- --—.....: 68,569 .. So—SUver ............. 9,437-.'. ;;:': TOTALS FOR THE QUARTER. Evidence of further satisfactory in- -51 creases is contained., in the following - table of principal exports for the quarter just ended as compared with those for the first quarter of 1912:— 1912. 1913.4 j " £ ':*g\ £■ 1 Butter .... 406,317 .. 451,133 M Cheese .......... 22/135 .., 22,105 Flax and to* .... 8,588 .. 40.97!) Kauri gum ....... 81.550 ... 110/145 Timber •-,.;..__,... , 47,091 .. ' 46,770 i Tallow 10,333 ... .15.337 / Wool ..;.....-...., 207,722 .. 266,096jff Frozen meat ..... 16,997 .. 32.508 ' Hides and skins .. .. 10,120"'; 6o,( l ••'•-•■ 200,724 .. 185,67r: Silver ...; 26.522 .. 28,7U5 j CUSTOMS REVENUE. The net'amount of' Customs revenue V ' collected in Auckland during the past month was £79,731 A/, as against £75,829 7/4 for March, 1912—an in- 4' crease of £3901 16/9. The respective- *' totals for beer duty were £2748 0/5 "'■■ and £2285 19/7. An increase of £15,917. 1 is shown iv favour of the first quarter I of this year in comparison with the total £ for the opening quarter of 191----(£227,548 14/1). Compared with the f opening quarter of 1912 the total for * the three months just ended reveals an f increase of £55,704 In favoiir of the m period now concluded. Beer duty for this I quarter amounted to £8945, ?as /agaiir - § £7768 for the first quarter 0f.'1912. ■'■' ' : '

RECORD FOR DTV—__RfilLl* 1

(By Telesraph.—P»css /Association.) INVERCARg/lL.,—s day. Customs returns for March are the highest on record for Iriveicargill,being £30,490, as compared'witi £28,522 in the corresponding quarter of 1912. Beer duty paid Was £46$ as compared with