IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 7

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

WELLINGTON'S SHARE

THE. PORT'S BUSINESS

Approximately 34 per cent, of the total imports and 25 per cent, of the total exports of the Dominion passed through Wellington, stated the general manager, Mr. J. Marchbanks, in his report to the Harbour Board at their statutory annual meeting last even-

The total value of all overseas exports for the port for the year ended 30th September, 1030, was £11,685,333, compared with £14,677,5-19 in the previous year, a decrease of £2,992,216. The main exports were: Cheese, £2,----784,810; butter, £2,147,965; wool, £.2,049,633; frozen meat, £1,996,515; skins and hides, £593,689;' apples and pears, £483,313; sausage casings, £344,910; hemp and tow, £179,121; tallow, £158,291. The value of all imports was £16,----107,499, compared with £16,573,862, for the previous year, a decrease of £466,---563. Of tho total imports £11,078,185 were- from British possessions. Imports from the United Kingdom increased V £103,499, while from the United States there was a decrease of £552,----785, and from Canada a decrease of £252,241. ■ Australian imports, which increased by £266,875, include £250,----000 of specie. There was a small increase in the value of imports from Italy, the Dutch East Indies, and from the Netherlands, and decreases from Japan, Germany, France, Ceylon, India, Belgium, Switzerland, and South Africa.