EXPORT STATISTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12240, 8 April 1903, Page 5

EXPORT STATISTICS.

DAIRY PRODUCE AND MEAT. INCREASING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-- ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Tuesday. Tug statistics of exports of dairy produce ana meat for the year ended March 31 are just to hand from the Government Statistician, ihey how, as has been foreshadowed from time to time bv Ministers in recent addresses in different parts of the country, that the exports in these Departments are increasing by leaps and bounds. due exports of lamb for the m.nth of March constituted a record for the colonv, the value of carcases? sent out of the colonv amounting to £255,678, as against £142,932 tor tho corresponding month of 1902 The same comparison is shown in almost everv department of dairy- and meat export'; nt oioq' raS? fc month Was 27 .230cwt, valued t ttS against ' 26,025cwt, valued at xiilo,Ui, Cheese : 12.040 cut, valued at £50,722. as ! against 10.773cwt, valued at £22.560. Leer : 15,657cwt, valued at £21,120, as against 18,239cwt, valued at £20,996 " „™ : leases, 169,415cwt, valued at -inJ'L 6 ,T as *8»"wt 101,183cwt, valued at £105,460; mutton legs and pieces, 10 4i6ovvt, valued at £11,945 as against 8491cwt, valued at £9119. In. the aggregate the dairy produce export for the month of March srows an increase of £18,825 over March last year, ana the meat, export figures show ah increase of £211,698, or about 75 per cent. lbs total exports from our dairies and pastures m March, 1902, were £418,984last month they were £649,507. The figures for the last nine years show a great development in exports. " Since 1895 the exports have increased as follows •-— Butter, from £263.244 to £1,269,676; cheese, from £160,383 to £175.903; beef, from £36,554 to £323,711 ; mutton, from £991,165 to £1,466,000; mutton (legs and pieces), from £56,992 (in 1900) to £108,781; lamb, from £259,816 to £1,048,115. The butter and cheese exported in 1888 was worth £197,170, in the year just ended it was worth £1,445,579. The meat exported in 1888 was valued at £628,800; last year its value was £2.946,607. The total exports fur the year ended March 31 were: — -r, .. Cwt. Value. Butter ... 263,137 £1,269,676 Cheese 74.393 175,903 Beef 251.643 323.711 Mutton (carcases) ... 1,252 803 1,166,000 Mutton (legs and pieces) 93,209 108 781 Lamb 667,472 1,048,115