AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12546, 13 April 1904, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS.

[BY TELEGEAPEI. —OWN* COIiRESPDNDEN'T.] Wellington, Tuesday. Details of the colony's agricultural exports for tha 12 months ending March 31 have just been issued iu a leaflet by the Department of Agriculture. Increases in thy quantity exported are shown in dairy produce and wheat, and decreases in oats, potatoes;, and frozen meat. The butter export, • amounting to 314,031cwt, was valued at £1,440,237, as against 263,196cwt, valued at . £1,a08,709, in the previous year. Cheese showed an increase from 74,611 tons, valued at £181,604, to 86,570 tons, valued at £217,149. The 181.905cw't of frozen beef sent abroad realised £233,206, a decrease of 99,499ewt in weight and ;y ,617 iu value as compared with the preceding 12 months. ' The falling-oil in ureases of frozen mutton was 114,138c\vt in weight, and ££9.10 a m value, the export being ],149,304c\<t, 'valued at £1,447,493. Legs and pieces (mutton) "decreased by about one-ha the figures being 45,727cwt. valued at £54,/|7, as against 90,699ewt, valued at £107,92/, for the year ending March 31, IfcK- • though frozen larnb showed a slight decrease from 667,767cwt to 660,Wcw . the better prices ruling resulted in a increase in the value, viz., from £1,0 . , J to £1,079,368. The wheat export nearly doubled, 156,096 bushels, valued at £28,760, f(ji the previous vear being replaced by 20&,940cwt, worth £47,4§7. Oats suffered both in the quantity exported, and in the prices realised, that while there was a decrease from o, m , u ; bushels to 4,913,940 bushels, the decrease in value was proportionately 13 ■ figures falling from £726,730 to £418,498 ■' Potatoes appear to hnve slumped, as trom ;* 17.645 tons in the previous year, valued at £72,636,, the export fell to 0159 tons, realising £12,638. A note is appended to the leaflet, stating P that as the ' figures are taken lrom tele* f}..' graphic reports, they tire subject to revi- . sion, " ftfcv :'c V; ■. ;- ; ;v.W.;' ■ fe:':