TARANAKI EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 3

TARANAKI EXPORTS

OVER £4,000,000 IN VALUE,

The value of the exports from Taranaki during the year ended 31et December, 1920, amounted to '£4,168,835, as compared -with £5,058,447 in 1919 and £2,656,754 in 1918,' says the Daily News. Th« total for 1918 was low because of lack of shipping, through which there was a great accumulation of produce in cold storage at the end of the year. The figures for 1919 were, as a further consequence, somewhat fictitious because most of that accumulation was shipped during the year. Perhaps the average of the two totals, or about £3,850,000, would fairly accurately. represent the annual production for export, in.which case the 1920 total shows a fair increase over previous years. The following table shows how the.totels for the three years were made vtp :—• ;

1918. 1919. 1920. £ £ £ Butter ... 500,254 465,613 219,055 Cheese 1,638,841 3,551,598 * 2,605,047 meat 252,103 461,022 698,411 Wool ... 83,130 317,694 287,065 Hides and skins 91,879 57,287 161,664 Tajlow 28,725 114,156 94,711 Timber — 31,264 — Sundries 61,822 272,013 102,882 Totals £2,656,754 £5,058,447 £4,168,835 The exports were divided among three ports—New Plymouth, Waitara, and Patea—in the following proportions: — 19io\ 1919. ' 1920. £ £ £ New Plymouth 1,113,557 2,133,601 1,869,185 Waitara 214,097 555,265 456,128 Patea 1,329,100 2,369,581 1,813,522 I

Already this year produce to the value of over £850,000 has been shipped from .New Plymouth and Waitara, as compared with £380,623 worth in January and February, 1920, an increase of nearly £500,000, so that 1921 sWldshow a substantial advance upon the 1920 total.