THE TRADE POSITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 6

THE TRADE POSITION.

WOT SO GOOD AS IT LOOKS.

(To the Editor.) Tlocont stiittniPTii s position of the Dominion tb * pent. Any trading business years returns of income and eiMnS* & out stocktaking would giv e T view ot the position, an? a trading should also envisage sWW. rise of prices has improved S* certain, but that the export retonlT** k are over-credited can also be principal cause of the years presents djfficulties, but it is J?v® B "* the lusher price, have effected" induced early offerings to a -rea^r^^ 5 ** last year. With dairy produce, can be estimated from the Auckland Company s stock position, astw handles approxiinatelv half the AxiZ eone(n! of the Dominion. Whl - W? Pro4 »* ■C 1.000,000 wort h of <££ a year apo more than there was «,£ The shortage was 203.000 boxes of wf J ®* r ' 1!'.500 crates of cheese. It £ assume, therefore, that about te dairy produce of the preceding was he.d back last year and year, swelling this year's returns. Boards ligures for the Dominion showT^ 1 this year compared with last *• 5 f rcases of lawb ' 15,310 ot SSL? 05.601 of ewes and about 90001b of bonJu/ beef (estimated). Beef shows an iLJ-^ 5 <«,.JB2qrs, and there are 41,750 of pigs. That the increase of exceptional, apart from price increaW - 1? shown. A total of 72.226 head * killed in beef 1-23,891 in lamb SieS pigs, \\ liijst wethers decreased bv 2T01»! ewes 00,903. The Auckland Freezing ComnJ? receipts of butter are two per ceSt year, whilst cheese is down 12 1 per cent « these figures are considered in tvimrtio.*;!! population increase they cannot be held factory, and we are driven to the rZt. - that any betterment of our trade ££?® due to a fortuitous factor, that of A- E. EOBDfSOX.