TRADE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 23 January 1924, Page 5

TRADE

EXPORTS FOR LAST YEAR

INCREASE OF OVER THREE

MILLIONS

(by telegraph—peers association.)

1 DUNEDIN, Jan. 22. The Hon. W. Downie Stewart (Minister for Customs) made available to-day the figures covering the vailj^ of the exports for1 1923 compared with the values for 1022 and 1921. It is satisfactory to note that an increase of £3,240,870 has. been registered over the figures for last year. The grand total stands at £45,977,119, re-exports ac- i counting for only £595,231, and the bal- i anc© representing New Zealand produce. The following table shows a comparison with the two previous years: -—' New Zealand Produce. • 1923 £45,377,188 3922 £41,699,148 1921 £48,615,458 He-exports. 1923 £595,231 1922 £10,271101 1921 £1213369 Grand Totals. 1923 £45,964,119 1922 £42,728,249 1921 £44,828,827 The principal increases are shown to have taken place in the dairy produce and frozen meat divisions, £18,255,204 worth of the former being exported, as compared with £14,335,264 worth in 11922. For the latter the total is i £9,012,720, compared with £8,387,461. I The corresponding figures for 1921, however, are £20,592,555 and £11,164,401. Hides and skins are responsible for £1,868,172, as compared with £1,484,----930 and £1,641,243 during 1922 and 1921 respectively. The wool returns are not up to the 1922 figure, being £1;904,659 (more than 100 per cent, increase over the figure for 1921), but the export of 613,308 bales was more than 300,000 bales under that for, 1922. There is an increase in the value and quantity of gold (£698,582) as compared with £540,182 and £612,168 exported. An interesting item is that of sausage ekins, which show a slight drop in quantity and value. However, the totals remain imposing, being 2,414,536 i ,1b and £424,387.