Auckland Trade.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6910, 23 February 1894, Page 2

Auckland Trade.

Auckland, to-day— At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the President in his address exhaustively reviewed the trade of the province, and said that though the volume of trade had not been bo great as in previous years business was never sounder. Trade engagements hadbeen better met than for many years jpast, and 'the renewals and the accommodations asked for had been less than for a considerable period. There had been a reduction in the imports,, while the exports, notwithstanding a decrease for the whole colony, showed an increase to the value of £39,333, and this in spite of great losses in the gum and flax industries. Taking the colony as a whole, he thought we had every reason to be proud of the position, and if the Government and the colony decided to continue upon a nonborrowing policy and honestly determined to live within their present income,^ there was no reason why New Zea>nU"ahould not "*^ maintain its premier posiCion in the money •< market.,, Auckland's position is cial, manufacturing, arid exporting city was r increasing yearly, and when their' lands were f led and settled upoiiiaS : in^other districts / §' might look ' forwa : rct < to*increaßecl trade * :^^ "c!|airni^nior Jp^oprfch tetip; '. •