TRADE RISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 173, 23 July 1936, Page 8

TRADE RISE.

BUOYANT YEAR.

DOMINION'S EXPORTS

TOTAL OVER £53,600,000

IMPORTS ALSO HIGHER.

' The buoyant condition of the country's trade is again exemplified by the figures released to-day by the Customs Department and received by Press Association message from Wellington. These show that for tiie month of June an exceptionally heavy turnover was recorded, •both exports and imports recording the highest levels reached in June for several years. ■ ■ Compared with June in recent years j the returns are as follow: — J uiic. Ivxports. Imports. Excess of Exports. 1933 £3,701,000 £2,012,000 £1,039,<100 1934 3,295,000 1,728,000 1,507,000 1 935 227.<:<!<> 2,:i51j,000 871,000 11)30 4,2121,000 3,-133.000 788,000 First Half Year. Six months' figures for tlio current year give the following comparisons: — .Tan'.- Excess June. Exports. Imports, nf exports. 103.3, £23,302,000 £12,034,000 £10,728,000 193-1. 31,498,000 13,750,000 17.742,000 1935 27,109,000 10,718,000 10.391,000 1930 19,800,000 14,371,000 A feature of the latest, half year is the very substantial increase in exports, due chiefly to the higher prices received , for wool and for dairy produce. This in its turn is reflected in increased spending power of the community. and imports have risen accordingly. The ■so-called "favourable" trade balance is i again at a high level. , i. Fine Production Year. From the latest figures it is possible to compare the "production year," which olliciallv* closed on June 30, with those of preceding seasons. Returns for the past seven years, in which strictly comparable figures, all expressed in New Zealand currency, are available, are as follows, the values being for commodities only, with exports and imports of. specie excluded: — Year to Excess June 30. Exports. Imports. of exports, t C ,t 1930 . 40,909,000 49,295,000 2,320,000* 1931 . 30,944.000 35,074.000 1,870,000 1932 . 34,008,000 24,055.000 10,013,000 1933 . 37,470,000 25.290,000 12,150,000 1934 . 49,142,000 20,703,000 22,439,000 1935 . 42.954,000 34,302,000 8.052,000 1930 . P3,0<U,000 39,430,000 14,231,000 'Excess of Imports. The value of specie is excluded from the foregoing returns. For the month of June exports were nil, and imports £050. For six months of this year exports we're £33,200 and imports £14,040.