IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12426, 15 February 1901, Page 6

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

[Per Preps Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. The value of the imports at- the several ports of New Zealand for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1900, including £122,940 worth of specie, amounted to £2,999,235 as compared with £2,400,460 for the last quarter of .1899. The imports from the United Kingdom for the two periods show an increase for the last quarter of 1960 of £402,696, the total value of imports in that quarter being £1,772,829. The increase in the imports from Australia and Tasmania, was £57,898, the only individual decrease being in the case of Queensland.

From the British Pacific Islands the imports have improved by £50,030. Fiji was responsible lor an increase of more than this amount, aggregate being 'reduced by an apparent falnng off in the imports of guano from Malden Island.

For the whole year, the imports amounted to £10,646,096,. as against £8,739,653 fgr the year 1899. Napier is.the only port in the colony which -showed a decrease in the import returns for the year. Turning to the exports from life colony during the quarter ended Dec. 31 they amounted in the aggregate to £2,543,922, inclusive of £7400 worth of specie, as'against an aggregate value of £2,762,537. This amounts to a decrease as' between the last quarter of 1900 and of 1899, of £418,615 for the whole colony . This falling off 'is accounted for chiefly by deficiencies at twelve different ports and in tire value of parcels posted. The principal of these -deficiencies are. Wanganui £21,400, Wellington £61,400, Napier £IBO,IOO, Vi airoa and Picton £13.000, Nelson £6OOO, Grcymnuth £52,000, Hokitika £oooo, Lyttelton ■£176,600, and Tima.ru £78,800. Auckland shews increase of £53,500. for the. quarter,. Poverty Bay £67,500, Oamaru £b5,800, and Dunedin £26,000.

The United Kingdom.nlcme took £401,000 worth less of New Zealand goods than hr the last, quarter of 1899. Cape Colony also figures in the same, light by taking £1215 worth of goods as against £45,869 in (he last, quarter of 1899, and quite a number of other customers have taken reduced quantities of-exports. The following were the principal articles of export Mine products £574,559 (gold £538,957), fisheries £4488, forest products £230;752 (kauri gum £146.658), animal produce £1,274,810, agricultural , produce £331,776, manufactures £86,070.