Another drop in the timber trade of the Dominion is revealed by figures for 1927, which have just- been released. Both imports and exports have fallen, imports by 5.7C0.020 super feat, exports by 4,900,000 feet. This downdard trend is the continuation of the progressive decrease which statistics reveal to have taken place duringthe past three years. At the same time tho balance of trade (the excess of imports over exports) has improved from the New . Zealand point of view, each year showing a smaller margin between the lumber brought into- the country from abroad and the woods exported.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 28
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