DOMINION'S EXPORTS.

Mataura Ensign, 15 March 1909, Page 4

DOMINION'S EXPORTS.

AX L\TKHE.STL\ti UCTriIA

run uxitko curss association. AYKLLLXUTON, March 12. J.he Industries Department's produce returns aflord satisfactory reading 'u regard to all exports. Wo'ol and hemp, exports.ol butler fur the month show ii value ol £277.051. or £BO,OOO better than tebriiary of last year. Auckland V.o? ~!,° shipper, sending away £84.300 worth of butter, Wellington coining next with £79,870 worth, i\ew 1 lyinouth, Palea, Dunedin, and Lvitolton following in order. In cheese ex!>,"1 S I> " t<,il '" (l wi(l ' W3.131 value, Jiliift £12,395, Wellington £34,030, ami Aew Plymouth £-23.190. Thev were all ol the value of £174.007, an increase of £50,000. Jicef exported was of the value ol £.30,030, or £IO,OOO better than I'ebruary, I<«KS. .Mutton and lamb values combined were a little under £300.000. an increase over the previous I'ebruary of £92.000. The lamb export premiership goes to Wellington, with a value of £00,453. Lyttcltnn follows with £34,724 and Xupier with £29.01.-). Ihe wheat export is a trifle of C 209 or £l2 less than last year. In oats there is aii'ineroasc over February, 1908, of nearly p.OOOO in Ihe value of exports, tile precise estimate at £7270. Hemp values show n falling off for February lf)o<) ol nearly CIO.OOO. Tlie exports of Ibis staple lor February of this year were V'-oM'V, Valm ' "' tai, - ; W> as against £u8.921 in February, 1908. Wool cx-Vr'/A'l-A' s val, " >(l «t.€1..152.816 against £1.463.(98 for the sumo period of last year. Hops are £440 less in value, showing an export value of onlv t'46 as compared with £487 for the' same month of last year. Skins are £4OOO better, hides £OOOO better, and tallow C9OOO better for February of 1909 than lor the corresponding month of last , rear. Rabbits enter no appearance, fow remains about the same (£.2200). ; but kauri gum figures at nearly £OI.OOO vliile for Fob.. 1908, it was valued lor export at £9107. Gold exports are :o-day set down at £103.802 as compar- ' !d with £130.285 a year ago. i Tlie total value 'of the exports for I'ebruary from the whole of New Zen- t and is set down at £2,432,748, or a de- I Tease of £13.700 on the value of Feb•uary, 1908. This is accounted lor nainly in the heavy falling off in hemp dready referred to. and a decline in he export values of wool of £311,000, dso the reduction in hops and smaller ■xports.