CHRISTCHURCH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Christchurch, May 28. At the quarterly meeting of tha Chamber of Commerce to-day the acting-president (Mr B. W. Roper) controverted the increased telephone rates. H« seated that in the tra.de of Lyttelton in the first, quarter of this year there hss bison a decrease of £35,585 in exports and an incrensg of £61,139 in imports compared with the corresponding quarter last year. The falling off ie exports was owing to the decrease in the shipments" of wool amounting to 1,993,1271b, valued at £45,442. This apparent sborUge was not owing to auy diminution in the wool supply, but to thtt fact; that growers, in view of tbo possibility of achaDge in the American tariff, hurried off fthipmtntii daring the months of Novo.mbar and December. He «tatt»d that in She Christchuroh factory district 1300 more people wera employed than in the game industries in May, 1896.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2257, 3 June 1897, Page 13
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148CHRISTCHURCH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Otago Witness, Issue 2257, 3 June 1897, Page 13
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