FIVE MONTHS' IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 8

FIVE MONTHS' IMPORTS.

5 * 1 NEARLY NINETEEN MILLIONS. The value of the goods imported into 8 New Zealand in the five months ended I May 31 last amounted to £18,701,321, or 1 f 1,030,401 more than in the corresponding ' period of last year, but is £0,000.000, or - 33 1-3 per cent, less than in the 1921 - term, when the imports were valued at - £24,716,421. The aggregate of the diff ferent divisions of imports for the five 5 months, 1924 and 1923, compare as under: ' 1921. 1923. r £ .£ Soft goods 3,r>!)S.6Sl 4,133,169 Hardware 2, 620,583 2,250,254 Foodstuffs 1,423,H0 985,371 Beverages 715,352 770,868 Miscellaneous .. 6,0f12,77l 5,403,531 Other goods ... 4,310,704, 4,189,527 £18,761,321 £17,730,920 ; The hardware section show? a modei rate increase of £370.329, and further ; expansion may be expected in this sec- • tion because heavy importations of elec- > trical machinery and railway and train- . way materials must be made for some I time to come. The heavy increase in t foodstuffs is due to the necessity of i importing wheat, the value of the [ imports for the five months being £33C337, against £69 in the correspond- [ ing five months of last year. Motor vehicles and petrol account very largely i for the increase of the miscellaneous sec- , tion. The imports of specie during the ; five months were only £100, as against J £11,980.