IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 115, 18 May 1906, Page 1

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

DETAILS FOR MARCH QUARTER

Details of the colony's trade for the quarter ending 31st March are given in the Gazette. Following are the principal items, with the figures for the corresponding quarter of 1905 in parentheses :—

The total value of the imports waf: £3,874,624 (£3,517,429). Of this total the United Kingdom contributed £2,128,311 (£2,160,904); Victoria, £281,121 (£196,416); Now South Wales, £400,634 (£284,517); South Australia £13,779 (£9141); Tasmania, £13,036 (£13,275); Fiji, *£32,77 i (£47,698); Bengal, £115,605 (£139,----625); Ceylon, £43,770 (£37,997); Singapore, £10,310 (£9558); Canada. £21, 445 (£19,054); British Columbia, £10,848 (£7527); Franco, £16,303 (£16,663); Germany. £75,6-17 (£71,----247); Belgium, £28.676 (£23,106), United States, £308,958 (£420,110); Japan, £17,999 (£14,259). The figures for the chieAports are:— Auckland, £890,011 (£731,729); Wellington, £1,204,738 "(£1,088,911); Lyttelton and Christchurch, £654,----770 (£605,293); Dunediri, £618,551 (£606,911.)

The value of the exports for the quarter way £7,097,732 (£6,486,350) the principal places to which they were sent being—United Kingdom £0,007,706 (£5,568,483); Victoria. £212,991 (£210,662); New South' Wales, £459,492 (£276,191); South Australia, £8499 (£8414); Western Australia, £13,916 (£8337); Fiji, £13,470 (£8846); Cape Colony, £2680 (£3447); Natal, £19,122 (£26,047): Hongkong, £2851 (£7085); British Columbia, £4104 (£1727); France, £38,329 (£47,544); Germany, £28,----741 (£11,705); Belgium, £9599 (£5102); United States, £240,125 (£244,698); Navigator Islands, £10,----126 (£9195).

From the principal ports the figures were—Auckland, £886,395 (£742,----728); Wellington, £1,580,587 (£1,588,----77G); Lyttelton and Christchurch, £1,040,212 (£916,787); Dunedin, £648,014 (£558,916)'. The return also "gives details of the nature of the export's,' the principal of which are appended, with the figures in parentheses- for the corresponding quarter of last year:—Minerals, £604,----107 (£558,766); fish, £5502 (£4610); gum, timber, and fungus, £204,051 (£215,147); meat and produce, £5,907,581 (£5,341,077); agricultural products, £53,038 (£48,314); manufactures, £275,651 (£270,990).