COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 15899, 3 September 1915, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

TRADE RETURNS. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. [Peb United Press .Association.] WELLINGTON, September 2. The total value of goods imported into New Zealand from all countries during the quarter ended June 30 was £4,487.934, including £5553,261 in. specie, ae compared with £4,897,176 m the corresponding quarter of 1914, including specie to the value of £300.010. The Customs duties, collected amounted to £855,726, as compared with £778,947 in 1914. The excise duties collected in the June quarter this year totalled £33,525, as against £31,242 a year ago. The values of the New Zealand produce exported during the week ended Ausrust 31 were as follow :—Butter, £7.124; cheese, £41,933; frozen lamb, £122.322;' frozen mutton, £79,548; frozen beef, etc £59,964 ; gold, £201,816 ; grain and pulse, £571; hides and skins, £31.354; kauri giim, £733; flax and tow. £4,698; tallow, £12,527; timber, .£5,566; wool, £95,546. AUSTRALIAN "PRODUCE REPORTS. SYDNEY, September 2. The forage markets are dull, onlv immediate requirements being filled. Oats : Algerian and American, 4s 3d. Maize, 5s 3d; South African and Javan, 5s to 5s 2d. Bran, £5. Pollard, £5 10s. Potatoes : Tasmanian, £9 10s to £10; New Zealand, £9 to £9 10s. Onious: Victorian, £9; New Zealand, £B. ADELAIDE, September 2. Wheat, Bs. Flour, £lB. Bran, Is 3d. Pollard, Is 7d. Oats, 3s 6d. MELBOURNE, September 3. (Received September 3, at 9.10 a.m.) Wheat, 8s Id. Flour. £l7. Oats: Algerians and Chilis, 3s 9d.to 4s; Japanese, 2s 6d to 2s lOd. Maize, 4s 6d. Bran £5. Pollard, £6. Potatoes, £8 to £8 10s. Onions, £6 10s. QUEENSLAND FLOUR. Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, September 3. (Received September 3, at 8.50 a.m.) A proclamation has been issued reducing by £2 2s 6d per ton the price of flour other than that made from wheat' imported by the Queensland Government.