FIJI'S EXPORT TRADE.
■ ! . ..♦ RECORD YEAR EXPERIENCED. Fiji's trade returns for the year 1916 show' that a record has been established, reports tho Suva correspondent of the Hebald. The imports and-exports, would easily have exceeded £3,000,000 in value, but • the Australian coal strike caused two! steamers to miss a trip. The value of the' exports"d: sugar and bananas also consti-1 tutes a record. ''Copra is below the returns ! of lSll, when the i : Value was declared at £282,787, .... ':"'•' , /; The total trade— and exports— , was £2,356,718 in 1914, £2,354,499 in 1915, and £2,985,606 in 1916. The following table shows the quantities and values of" the exports of copra, banahaß, and -sugar for the past three years!» ' ~.!...-..; -.- COPRA.
i I 'Jons. Value. | - !>;..;•- '$& . £ t 1914 ■- ; v ... 9.191 148.408 ; 1915 ... v 15.238 233.958 '.:('■ 1916 :. ... 6 13.489 - - 255.913 : ,, ;1 BANANAS. f Bunches. Value. . fc , V, • .. j • . ■'■:■-: £ , ) 1914 .- ... '■ 1.770,720; , ,-.. 201.938 ' I 1915 • ... 1.035.240 120.740 ■ ! 1916 • ... 1.651.629 . 205.122 . SUGAR. .■ ■ _ : ,, .Tons. . Value. V1914 ■•'... ... - 93.773-. 1.005.642 : 1915 ... 85.562 1.065.463 • 191G ... 120.628 1,582,719 - It . -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16460, 9 February 1917, Page 9
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163FIJI'S EXPORT TRADE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16460, 9 February 1917, Page 9
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