NEW ZEALAND'S TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND'S TRADE.

■ ENGLAND'S BEST CUSTOMER. "The remarkable progress that NewZealand has made." says the "Daily Mail Year Book" for 11)20, "15 shown in the fact that she now provides Creat Britain with almost one quarter of her imported butter supplies, one-half of Jii-r imported cheese. 'half the mutton and lamb. j nearly one-quarter of the wool, and about one-third of the tallow. No other [overseas country, not even thp "Teat continents which compete with her. < — claim that distinction. "In trade ?he leads the world in per capita figures. Last year the total of her imports and exports amounted to £101.000.000. or j £75 per head —the Dominion's population being about 1.350.000. Of New i Zealand's total trade of £101.000.000. ! £t).->.000.000 sterling was with the 1 United Kingdom. Her exports ;:i 1024 1 were more per capita—£3S 12,' —than I those of any other country, and of the total export SO per cent came to Great Britain. Her imports amounted to £3.") I'l' por head of the population, and of the total over £23.000.000 worth were purchased from Britain herself, equal jto £17 per head. Thus New Zealanders are the best customers per head Britain possesses."