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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 118, 17 May 1909, Page 7

It is interesting to note (says the Auckland Herald) the growth per head of our European population in exports and imports. The value or imports has risen from £9 4s lOu per head in 1895 to £18 16s 6d in 1907, whilst the exports has only risen from £12 7s per head to £21 16s 9d during the same period. What are the reasons for this portentous change in the difference between imports and . exports? There are two reasons. The minor one is, no doubt, the higher and more expensive style of living so common to-day. The major one is the diefferenee in the proportion of primary producers per head of our population. Nearly seven-eighths of the ex- i ports of this 'country are represented by agricultural products, consequently, to put the matter briefly, the reason why pur exports have not'kept pace with our imports is due to the fact that land settlement and farming have not kept pace with the growth of our population. . . For Chronic Chest Complaints— Woods' Great ±*eppeirminjt Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.