TRADE FIGURES
SUMMARY BY PREMIER [Per Unced Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Aprill7. Speaking at the Commercial Travellers’ Conference, the Prime Minister stated that, with the exception of the trading year 1921, the figures for the twelve months ended March 31, 1928, constituted a record in recovery from the adverse trade balance suffered during the preceding year. The total trade of Now Zealand for the .years 1927 and 1928 (ending march 31 in both cases) were: —Exports, £45,682,338 and £54,962,031 respectively; imports, £48,192,G7O and £44,419,357. The excess of exports for 1928 over those for 1927 was £10,542,674, while the excess of imports in 1927 compared with 1928 was £2.510,332. The dominion’s total exports to Britain for the year 1920-27 were £lO,137,253, and for the year 1927-23, £47,226,578; while'those to foreign countries were £5,545,085 and £7.735,403 respectively. 'The total British imports into New Zealand for the 1926-27 period were £32,652.136. and lor the 1927-28 period £30.327,192; while importations from foreign countries were respectively £15,540,534 and £14,092,165. Of the exports to foreign countries the United States absorbed in 1926-27 £3,258.594, and in 1927-28 £3.052,7 In: while the dominion imports from the United States wore £9,766,910 in 192627 and £7,993,156 in 1927-28.
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Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 2
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197TRADE FIGURES Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 2
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