OVERSEAS TRADE.
FEBRUARY RETURNS. EXPORTS LOWER, IMPORTS HIGHER. A decline in overseas trade, chiefly caused by reductions in export values, is shown in the latest returns issued by the Customs Department from Wellington. These, forwarded by the Press Association, show hi test returns as follow:— (Month of tfVbrunry.) Exports. Imports. Excess. £ £ ,C .!):;."> . . -1,-trill,Olid 5<441.000 2,012,000 1!»u1 .. (1,240.000 1.'J4"i,000 I.Mil 1.000 (Two months' HiniroK. .Inn. to Feb.) 103.1 .. !i,.VJ'.i.ooo 5,(155,000 8.874,000 liltl'i .. 11.880,000 4,804,000 0,520,000 l!)3a . . 7,050,000 4,474.000 8,182,000 All the above values arc expressed in (onus of Xcw Zealand currency. Specie is excluded. For the mouth of February, 1035, exports of specie wore £66,900 and imports £5500. For two ■months ended February, 1935, exports of specie were £134,000 and imports £178.000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 4
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