EXPORTS FOR 1923

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 8

EXPORTS FOR 1923

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES

REPORTED.

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, ; DUNEDIN, 22nd January. Tbe/Hon. W. Downie Stewart, JVlin-iUer'-ofyCiistoms, made available-to-day ffgnVes covering* the values of exports for 1922, compared with • tiie • values for 1922 arid^l92l. It'isVsatisf actor.y to note an''increase-of;' £3,240,870 has been Registered \6ver the'figures for last year. The grand total stands at -£45,977,119, ire-exports accounting for. only £595,----231, and the balance representing New Zealand prbducg.

| The principal';increases are shown to llave taken place, in the dairy and frozen ipeat .divisions, £18,25-5,204 worth of the former being exported as compared •with. _£14 1 335.,264 worth in 1922. For the'TatterOthe' total is '£9,012;72"0, compared with £8,387,461; the corresponding^figur'es for 192!, however, are £20,----592,555 and £11,164,401. <Hides.,and skins are responsible for £1L,868,172, as compared with £1,484;930 and £1,541.243 during 1922 and 1921 respectively. ■ •. ,

;The wool return is not up to the 1922 figure, being £10,904,659 more than 100 per cent.i increase over the, figure: for 1921), but the export of 613,308' baies was more than 300,000 bales under that for 1922.

.There is an increase in the value and quantity of gold ( £698,582) as compared with £540,182 and £612 - 163. ■ ■ . ■ ■

',An interesting item is that of sausage skins; which show a slight drop in quantity and value. However, the totals remain imposing—2,4l4,s36lb and £,424,387.