TRADE WITH MALAYA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 16

TRADE WITH MALAYA

The value of "Australia's exports to British.'Malaya for the financial year, 1931. 32, amounted to £916,462, against £818,917 for- the previous twelve months, and the balance of trade in her favour was nearly _£64Q,Q00. Many: articles "were exported in which New Zealand could not compete, but in some, viz., milk products and bacon and hams, it could do a trade. Although, there was an increase of approximately £100,000 in vAustralia'n trade last year, compared' with 1930-31, there has been a considerable falling-off since 1927-28, when export figures were over £2,000,000. Australia's imports from. British .'Malaya in were valued at £276,654, and the principal items were:— Crude rubber (£163,000), spices (£57,000), sago and tapioca ■(£31,000), tin ingots (£16,700). -The principal articles exported from the Commonwealth to British Malaya were:—Flour, milk . products, butter,' meat. Details of these and other shipments last year were as follows:—Flour, £277,781; milk products, £260,280; butter, £74,436; • meats—frozen, £68,339; bacon and hams', £15,311; fruits—fresh and preserved, £27,130; coal, £27,000; metal manufactures, and machinery, £33,500; leather, £16,436; soap,. £15,000; animal fats, £10,380;, sheep, £13,700; horses. £7400.