FIVE COUNTRIES SEND TEETH TO NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 18

FIVE COUNTRIES SEND TEETH TO NEW ZEALAND

“The Press” Special Service

WELLINGTON, September 24. Away from the better-known imports, such items as £20.000 worth of diatomaceous earth, artificial teeth worth £35.000 and birdseed valued at £ 14.000 are among items in a Department of Statistics survey of New Zealand trade statistics for 1957. The United States and Australia supplied the diatomaceous earth for use in the filtration of liquids, the insulation of boilers and blast furnaces and as a mild abrasive in metal polishes and teeth.

There was plenty of competition for the supply of teeth—Australia. the United Kingdom, Trinidad, South Africa and the British West Indies. Australia was the greatest single source, and supplied all the birdseed. Finland supplied £lO,OOO worth of matches last year and Denmark some whisky. The Netherlands was the source of £lO,OOO worth of chewing gum and, at the opposite end of a “sweet tooth.” castor oil valued at £2097. Bull rings and ear trumpets came from the United Kingdom. Morocco sent £2lO worth of some unspecified exports. The United Kingdom was in the foundation garment business to the extent of £28,239. The United Kingdom was By far the greatest supplier to New Zealand last year with exports valued at £135,061,768. Next were Australia £44.420.973, the United States £20,445.173, Western Germany £7,770,889, Canada £6,612.226. Then in the order given, and to the value of more than £1 million in each case, were India, Sweden, Ceylon, the Netherlands, Japan, Malaya, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy, Fiji, Singapore, and South Africa. The textile yam, fabrics, made-

up articles and related products group was the largest in last year’s imports. Next were tea, cocoa, spices; non-electrical machinery; fruits and vegetables; base metals. The United Kingdom was the supplier of the largest volume, in value, of any group of products from a single country. She sent New Zealand £23,483,891 worth of textile yarn, fabrics and allied items