CANADA'S TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 5

CANADA'S TRADE.

(BY TEi/EGB"<l,>! ■—VBV.BfL'AHSOOiXTTON.t WELLINGTON, July's. Interesting figures regarding the trade of Canada were given at to-day's Rotary Club luncheon by, Mr. A. F. Roberts, w'Ho said Canada's export and import trade in 1920 totalled £605,000,000, This was three times that of Australia., while the figures for New Zealand lor 1920 were Only £83,000,000. Contrary to. what Ke had imag'ned; Canada's principal exports consisted cf manufactured goods, the value of which in 1920. was £140,000,000. Canada's exports of agricultural produce in 1920, were valued at £117,000,000. There was one thing, however, in which Canada was behind both Australia and New Zealand, and that was in sheep. The number of sheen in Australia was 72,00(?,tf60, - and "the number in New Zealand was 26,000,000, but the figures for Canada were only 3,000,000.