OVERSEAS TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 8

OVERSEAS TRADE.

IMPORTS AND KXPORTS. The imports into New Zealand for September total £3,2fif1,507, compared with £3,545,089 for the corresponding month of last year. The imports for the nine months totalled £31,481,705, compared with £25,101,909 for the nine months of 1922. Imports of tea totalled £83,002 for September, compared with £73,477; whisky, £56,380 (£50,129): tobacco. £45,500 (£100,877); apparel, £101,412 (£164,----973) ; boots and shoes, £70,180 (£62,882 I ; cotton goods. £105.580 (£212.509) ; cotton goods. £105,58!) (£212,509) ; motor spirit, £72,727 (£79.752) ; coal, £58,824 (£78.127); electrical machinery, £09.20!) (£75.332); sawn timber (£33.237); motor vehicles, £254,312 (£110.723). Exports for September totalled £2,059,516 compared with £2.470,061 for [September, 1923. For the nine months the exports totalled £37,501,106, compared with £35,145,795 for the nine months of last year. Butter exports in September totalled £298,98!), compared with £254.900 in September, 1922; cheese, £36.154 (£57.40ti): frozen meat, £62,195 (£137,307); lamb, £377,167 (£357,244): mutton, £231,308 (£205,----491); cattle, £30.708 (£347): cattle hides, £49,703 (£43,322); rabbit skins, £122.258 (£180,512); tallow, £49,138 (£02,034); coal. £8354 (£22.854); kauri gum, £43,524 (£50,333); gold, £63,320 , (£49.572). i