DOMINION EXPORTS HEAVY
IMPORTS' FALLING OFF. Tliat tile volume of the Dominion’s Export trade 'ig- being: well maintained Is. 'evidenced by. the quantity of shipping now carrying the country’s produce to London. Tlie current loading list covers foury teen liners now on the berth or about to start loading, and they will all be dispatched dfifing the next three weeks with practically'full cargoes. The great decline in the; volume of imports during the last few months is shotyn by various ways, the most remarkable 'being the fact that it has to' hi irig ship after ship out "in ballast” from Britain to provide a; sufficiency of tonnage for Homeward'loading. A^dihe-present-time no fewer than six* big liners ate on their way out to NewgZealand. empty, making a total of eleven so far this season. Two of the six ships—the Norfolk and Zealandi.e — are making their second :outward; pas- /'“ sage this season in ballast from Eng- * land. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1931, Page 3
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