INCREASED EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 8

INCREASED EXPORTS.

-♦- i | YEARS TOTAL, £24.827,868. | TWO MILLIONS AHEAD. illy TclesTa|.li.— Press Association.) j WEI.LINC.TOX, Tuesday, j Tlie Prime Minister the Ul. Hon. VV. V. Ma.-scv. in a -pcoch at tb.' Municipal Conference delegates' luncheon to-day. said that exports for the year just en-Jed I totalled C24.5-27.SliS as uguin-t 1T22.705,----02-a last year, an inerea-e of .C 2.122.543. ; P.ANK DEPOSITS. -Tiie prosperity of the Dominion is reflected in the Savings Bank figures." said the Prime .Minister. He liad just received a statement of the deposits an.l withdrawals for tbe mouth of .lime. Ifll-I. The deposits in that month had: amounted to C1.057.U14. an.l the with-1 Idrawals to .C'.>4S.7.T.i. leaving an excess lof depo-iils over withdrawals of CI3S. j SOL In dune. IMS. Hue deposit- wen.-; ! C!1;J1'..717. and tilie withdrawals £803,324! a surplus, of C43.:!H3. The increase iv the .surplus for last month over the corresponding month last year was thus nearly £100.01)0. I Applause.) This money. Mr. Alassey continued, was invested by the Minister for Kinj anee. chiefly by way of loans to local j bodies and advances to settler., and I workers, so that it ■went directly toI ward.- increasing the prosperity of the country.