TRADE OF THE COLONY.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. INTERESTING STATISTICS. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. The imports at the various ports of the colony during the quarter ending September 30 totalled in value £2,+17, as against ; £2.094.301 for the corresponding quarter of : 1897, giving an increase of £219,116. ! Over £1,500,000 of the imports came from the United Kingdom, the United States comin:» next in order of value with £182,600. ; Then comes New South "Wales (£153,000), ; Fiji (£95.600), and Victoria (£84,100). j Of the countries of Europe, Germany sent ! most to the colony, but her total only reached £39,236 and the next in order, Belgium, only • sent £10,277 ; Tho exports for the same quarter totalled 1 £1.613,633, or £669,729 less than the imports. : They show an increase, however, of £130,399 i over the corresponding period of last year. The chief places of export were the United , Kingdom (£1,109,399), New South Wales , (£292.334), Victoria £83,377), United States ! (£75,559). The value of the chief exports from the ; colony during the quarter ended September . 30, was as follows:— £14,484 ; gold, ; £254,030; silver, £10,095; kauri gum, £146,704: timber, £35,769; butler, 8174 (as , against £24,615 for the same quarter of last year); cheese, £11,910; preserved meats, . £22,371; frozen moats, £420,238 (as against £393,255 hist year); sheepskins, £53,374 ; tallow, £60,439; wool, £303,995; flour, £412 (as against £23,361 last year); oats, £14,200 (as against £29,133 last year); potatoes, £82,043 (as against £3535 last year): grass seeds and clover, £18,996 (as against £9942); leather, £26,677; fish and oysters, £5877. Summarised under their different headings, the exports were:—The mines, £280,455; fisheries, £5877; the forest, £183,809; animals and produce, £929,748; agricultural products, £137,638; manufactures, £66,606; miscellaneous, £3456.
TRADE OF THE COLONY.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10908, 12 November 1898, Page 5
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