GERMAN AND AUSTRALASIAN RECIPROCITY TRADE.
The figures of the above diiring the year 1903 between Germany and Australasia (Commonwealth and New Zealand), according to statistics issued by the Imperial German Government, and courteously handed to us by tho Germaai Ccnsul in Dunedin, were as follow:-?
E^oees of imports from Australasia into Germany over exports to Australasia from Germany, #1,763,050. The total value of imports to New Zealand from Germany, as published in the New Zealand Gazette for the year ended December 31, ]903, was £274.297; and for the year 1904, £305.511. , „ . ft will be seen from the above figwes that Germany is a very large customer for the wool pi educed in Australia and New Zealand; and there ara probably few people in these colonies who haws realised that the figures in, this connection are fd aucJi magnitude*
Value of Value of Imports from Exports to Australasia. Australasia. Kb. £ £ 1. OH metals .... 300 — 2. Cotton and cotton goods 2,500 162,750 3. Lead and lead-ware 48,350 5,100 4. Brnshwara .. -r. 50 23,250 5 Drugs, chemical? paints, etc. . . 4,450 181,350 6. Iron, steel, and hardware .. .. 150 573,850 7. Ores metals, asbesstos, etc., raw and dressed .. .. 693,400 26,250 8. Flax, hemp, and fibre 3,350 300 9. Grain and other agricultural produce 27,500 17,300 10. Glass and glassware — 29,000 11. Hair (raw and dressed) . . . . 4,250 5,050 12. Hides and skins . . 113,300 300 13. Timber, wood, and woodenwaro .. 24,0a0 69,600 14. Hops — 17,700 , 15. Instruments, tools, machinery and vehicles .. .. 209 375,700 IG. Calendars .... — 200 17. Indiarubber (raw and manufactured) .. .. 1,150 22,800 18. Wearing apparel, millinery, etc. .. — 90,600 13. Copper (raw and manufactured) ... 53,550 53,650 20. Fancy goods etc... 50 106,550 21. Leather and loatherware .. 600 42,500 22. Linen and linen goods — 9,800 23 Candles .... — 100 24. Works of art and literature . . . . 300 27,900 25. Groceries, confectionery, etc. .. 19,700 80,700 26. Oil and fat . . ..• 51,900 550 27. Paper and pa,perware 50 61.300 28. Furs — 2.200 29. Kcrosena .... — — 30. Silk and silk goods — 24,650 31. Soap and perfumery .... — • 13,500 32. Playing cards .. — 950 33 Precious and other stones (raw, cut, ana set) .. .. 108,150 31. Coal, coke, shale, etc 10,950 650 35. Straw and rushware i — i 550 36. Tar, pitch, resin, and gum .. .. 6i,150 200 37. Animal pioduce, n.o.m. ... 20,250 230 3P. Sarthenw&re .., — 71,900 39. Live animals .. — •> — 40. Oil and leathercloth — 1,000 14. Wools and woollens 4,712,300 113,650 42. Zinc (raw and manufactured) .. 900 2,400 43 Tin (raw and manufactured) .. 34,950 5.G00 Goods, n.o.m. .. — 12,450 Totals .. .. 6,001,050 2,238,000
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