IMPORTS GO UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1937, Page 5

IMPORTS GO UP.

NOVEMBER RETURNS. OVERSEAS WHEAT CARGOES. PACIFIC ISLANDS' TRADE. Imports at the port of Auckland in ; November, as compared with the previous month, showed a substantial increase of 21.327 tons, but exports and transhipments decreased by MOS4 tons and 1 OtiS tons respectively. The balance on cargo handled was greater by 17,17"> tons than in October. At Onehunga imports increased by 12S tons and exports decreased by Kill tons, both comparisons being with the previous month. The total cargo handled was less by 097 tons. The figures for November. 1!):»7, with their relation to the figures for the corresponding month in I!Ks<> in parentheses, were: Inwards overseas, 107,82!) tons (increase tons); inwards coastal, .">1,274 tons (increase 3252 tuns); transhipments, 5420 tons (decrease 85 tons); outwards coastal. 22,7:51 tons (increase 70 tons); outwards overseas. 21.154 tons (decrease 3351 tons); total.! | 205.408 tons (increase 30,423 tons). In inwards coastal goods the principal | increases were coal and coke. 'i7ofl tons, cement and lime 1253 tons, and softwoods J I•>'i tons, while the principal decreases were wheat, 305(i tons, and sand and shell spawls 1371 tons. Inwards overseas increases included manures 20.101 tons, and wheat 7:S3!> tons. It is noted that wheat shipped here l.v the coast has decreased and inward wheat i cargoes from overseas are greater. The I chief increase in exports overseas was! I of 11 111 tons in the case of meats, frozen preserves, bacon and hams, while the , m iin decrease was butter, the extent of I the decline being 3708 tons. : The Pacific Islands took the lead in | November for imports in tonnage balances in direct trade. Oreat Britain being second and Australia a close third, their figures heing 25.142 tons. 20.178 tons anil 10,025 tons respectively. Next in ! order came the t'nited States. 17.773 .tons; Netherlands East Indies. 13.0(11 tons; (anada. (il.">4 tons; Japan. 2!>(io tons; Straits Settlements. 224 tons; I'apua. 31 tons; and the Hawaiian Isla nd. 1!) tons. In comparison with the totals recorded in tlie corresponding month in 1 !»."{<». increases were noted in all but three cases. The most notable increases were Pacific Islands, 20.!tS(i tons, the I nited States, 774S tons, and Australia. 7<>(>!t tons, and the greatest decreases , were Netherlands East Indies, 7810 tons, and Japan. 240:! tons. I Fewer passengers arrived in Auckland last month than in November. 103 IS. the extent of the decrease being 353. Of the total of 21.12 passengers arriving in the port, by far the greatest number. 1200. were from Australia, (irent Britain being next with 302. These figures were submitted to the Auckland Harbour Board this afternoon by the traffic manager, Mr. \Y. 11. Oolden. i ==^^=