JAPANESE TRADE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20636, 16 August 1941, Page 2

JAPANESE TRADE

;; EFFECT IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY. Aug. 11. i The ban on imports from Japan was long l foreseen and prepared against by the Sydney retail trade. Firms made arrangements with British and Australian manufacturers to pro- - vide goods which have now been prohibited i from the East. * | The manager of a large Sydney store said ' that as a consequence, of this policy the f “freezing” of trade had not been as serious as might have been the case two years ago. Ninety per cent of the goods sold by his firm were made in Australia and most of ' the remaining 10 per cent enme from Britain. ■ M In the last year, before the war, Australia imported £5,349,086 worth of goods from l Japan. Heading the list were piece goods, totalling £1,785,775. Next came toys ,aud - fancy goods (&162.532), crockery (£147,774), " paper and stationery (£142,464), and glassware (£51,852). Most important of all Jap- * anese imports is silk for parachutes and 4 stockings. One Australian parachute maker was not caught napping. He has 60,000 v yards of parachute silk. Most, big silk stock- - ing manufacturers also looked ahead. j AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES (Eleo. -Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Aug. 14. J , Stock Exchange trading fell away to-day J pending receipt of Mr. Attlee’s broadcast from London to-night. Share prices were “ firm. Sales included:—Bank N.S.W., £26 - 6s; Commercial Bank Australia. 14s; Australian General Insurance. 16s 9d; Australian Gas, £5; British Tobacco. 45s 9d; Colonial Sugar, £49 ss; Dunlop-Perdriau, 22s 6d; Standard Cement, 18s 9d; Kandos, 31s; Morts Dock, 19s 9d; Adams, 15b. Business in Melbourne includedCommer...ciai Bank Australia, 14s; A.C.1.. 47s 9d; Taubmans (pref.), 225: Yarra Falls, 445; I.C.X. (pref.), 24s 6d; Herald and Times, 60s “'6d; Broken Hill Pty., 38s 2d; ditto (eon.), 27s Id: Mount Morgan, 9s; North Broken - Hill, 41s. >| V .y-rl MEAT PRODUCTION V*4 3$ The official figures of export killings at • v * the Dominion’s freezing wqrks from October 5* 1 to August''2 show that ’lamb killings have «’r reached 11,220,386, or 838,791 carcases above that of previous season. Ewe killings now showJ/a decrease - of 383,148 carcases, the ■H current total being V1Y536,4J4. Wethers have - declined by 691,130,. the killings this seai: son totalling 615,727. Frozen beef production has reached 692,493 ;; quarters, compared with 687,038. v,, Porker killings total 219,571, showing an ■I- increase °* 128:969. carcaßes. Baconer killings reached 282,991, a decrease this season of 42,746 carcases. Killings of choppers total 10,131. a decrease of 774. W!H !L> : CLYDESDALE PURCHASE •4 tt , . 2 An interesting arrival at Gisborne to-day . was a bay Clydesdale filly. Drummond Daisy, by a well-known imported sire, Netherton ** Mac. The filly, which had come to the order of Mr. J. R. Halliday, Waikohu, arriv- ■ ed from the Bluff by the s.s. Wainui, and was purchased through the agency of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency l Company, Limited.