TRADE RETURNS.
The last issue of the Government Gazette contains figures which show conc'sely the course of trade, during 1901 as comvarod with that in 1900 :
IMPOBTS. £ 3901 ... 11,816,457 1900 ... 10,646,096 Increase ... 1,170,331 EXPORTS. £ 1900 ... 18,242,611 1901 ... 12,881,424 Decrease... 861,187
It is a most extraordinary position that the imports shsyuld havo increased by so great an amount, and that contemporane usly the exports should have fallen, and the position is aggravated by tha belief, amounting almost to positive knowledge, that the returns from the exports would be realty less, because the valuation of wool exceeded tbe amount it realised. Ihera is the authority of the Premier for the statement that if the exports fall below an excess of t-wo millions over imports the balance has to be paid out in gold, and in view of the foregoing figures there is no doubt the position needs oareful watching at the bands of our public men.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7387, 13 February 1902, Page 2
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154TRADE RETURNS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7387, 13 February 1902, Page 2
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