AUSTRALIA'S EXPORTS

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 6 January 1936, Page 8

AUSTRALIA'S EXPORTS

@V •/ • FQR '.y.: ; • •! Th; the first eleveri months of tire financial year which has just closed Queensland sent: ;froin her / ports goods valued at ' (Australian. currency); while in the same period cargoes Valued Vat £5,790,511 (English currency) .were unloaded from oyersejisrandV interstate vessels. • The value: of! direct overseas exports was „fJws r * approximately £7,737,908 (English* currency) in excess of imports, . These ligures do *' not however, include goods brought overland from other States Or vice versa. Compared with exports in the first 11 months of 1933-34, exports in the financial year under review Were worth nearly £2,000,0(!0r less. The decline is due to the drop in the value of wool shipments which were £2,754,132 less, although thq number of bales sent from Queens* land ports increased by 59,009. In Victoria the higher impqrfi figures may be taken as a sign of improving business. For the elevcii n\onths of the current year they increased by £4,151,000, making Hid total for the period £24,465,000, Much of the imports consists of ravg materials, partly manufactured! goods, machinery and equipment* ' used in local secondary industries* For example, textiles (not apparel)! consist largely of piece goods used) in the local clothing trade, whild motor chassis, which increased hjg £500,000, are equipped after arrival in Australia with bodies and tyres of local manufacture. *