PILED UP IMPORTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12259, 9 June 1914, Page 3

PILED UP IMPORTS.

REMARKABLE MONTH'S RECORD By Telegraph. (Special to the Oamaru Mail.) Wellington, Juno 8. After considerable delay the Custom Department is now able'to state tha the value of imports into New Zoalan< during January, the month after th. end of the .strike, was £2,583,791'. Thi is probably a record for anv month, he ing over £BOO,OOO in excess' of tho aver -age for .last year. It was duo to th piling up of tonnage as it arrived dining December, vessels being unable t land cargo owing to the trouble ashore The actual amount of duty collect* during January was £302,232, and th total value of imports at the four ohie ports was as follows: Auckland £746,027; Wellington. £095,477 Chi-istohurcb, £438,470; Dunodin £387,255. "