COMMERCIAL N.Z. Exports Rose 7.2% In 1966

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 10

COMMERCIAL N.Z. Exports Rose 7.2% In 1966

Total New Zealand export receipts for the 1966 calendar year increased £27.4 million, or 7.2 per cent, to a record £410.1m, according to figures released by the Reresve Bank.

Of this amount, the three main primary export groups contributed £372m, or 91.7 per cent of the country’s total export receipts.

The accompanying graph, supplied by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, shows how receipts for the principal exports rose in 1966. Wool recovered from the decline of 1965, increasing £11.9m to £123.4m but even

so was stiU £11.7m below that received in 1964. Dairy products other than dairy meats, improved £B.lm to a record £107.5m and were £llm higher than for 1964. Meat Exports Meat exports produced £lo6.lm—a fall of £2.4m on the year before. However, sheepskins and pelts unproved £3.6m to £16.5m and hides and skins

rose fl.lm to £5.3m to increase total meat exports, excluding slipe wool, by £3m to £141.1m. Receipts from all other ex- • ports were £4.4m higher at £38.1m. This included live1 stock exports totalling fl.lm. Imports A survey of overseas orders and payments shows that the value of orders placed by sur- ‘ veyed Anns was 7 per ceift 1 lower than for January of ■ last year, says the Government Statistician (Mr J. V. T. ! Baker). • Orders for January were valued at £10.4m, compared with £11.2m for the same month in 1965. Orders for the six months to the end of January were 5 per cent, or £4m, lower at i £78.8m than in the sr me peri- > od the previous year. ! The survey covers about i half the private imports.