ARGENTINE EXPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 32

ARGENTINE EXP ORTS.

SOME STARTLING FIGURES

Tn the course of a conversation last evening Sir Joseph Ward mentioned to a representative of this journal that he had been supplied by Mr T. E. Donne with an interesting return of th» exports from New Zealand's great rival, the Argentine, for the year 1902. Sir Joseph, in consenting to the publication of the return, said the figures would no doubt come as a surprise to commercial men generally, Foilowing is the return : — April 6, 1903. The Hon. the Minister for Industries and Commerce. During the year 1902 the Argentine •hipped to South Africa 393,266 frozen Bheep, 210,203 quarters of beef, 6600 tons of wheat, 74,126 tons of maize, 23,292 tons lof bran, 1,242,503 bales of hay, 870 tons o r sugar, and 23,086 boxes of butter. These are- formidable figures, and interest this colony very much during the same period the following were BoiTe of the Argentine'B principal exports to t';p United Kingdom: — 14,306 dry hides, 55.G?5 salted hides, 9940 bales of sheepskins, ©608 pipes, 46,267 casks, and 11,429 hogshead* of tallow, 3,035,996 frozen sheep. 620,010 quarters of beef, 31,120 bales of •wool, 76,435 tons of wheat, 327,257 tons of maize, 71.349 tons of linseed, 16,440 tons of fcran, 2835 tons of flour, 93,730 bags of pollard. 138,234 boxes of butter, and 29,800 •tor of sugar. of the principal exports to other eoi r: tries during th« same period were: — a,:BJ .397 dry ox hides to the United States, 397 ?56 do to Italy, 756,366 salted ox hides ■to tic-rmany. 61.774 hales of sheepskins to ••?- -„ /j,~ against 9940 to the United Iving- - "'To 1,-1,,. „' ro \ to Ranee, „ [J -„!..i 5 do to Belgium ;a"...=;t 31,120 do j-c- Unit**l King•i\ 122,548 tons <>■ u-Jjoat io Belgium. i' 3.317 tons of malr It Belgium. 10,988 ri--.es, 2897 casks, ana 13,819 hogsheads of .oj'-ow to Italy. '! lie most significant features of the Arjren1! a exports are tie increases from 1900 to ■?fl n ? rf frozen "-hecp— from 2.372.96 C rar- *--•-'-, in 1900 tn 3.H20.222 H ]902: rn<l ? '.365 quarter.', of boof in 1900 to ?Z n 213 dn 1902: also <0 480 boxes of butter in 1900 to 162,509 in 19^2. The only noticeable decr^asp i- wheat — tfi-m 1,929,700 ton» in 1900 to 650,098 in 1902,— which goes to prove that Argentine i; withdrawing attention' from agriculture »p ' divertins iN energies to the frozen r ' and buffer Industrie*. ~~~ ! StS <>t the ret#n- ! jtion t ftf t m hcus;>3 in the disttrict are i:i circulation at Palmerston.