OUR EXPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 2

OUR EXPORTS.

[United 'Press .Association.] > - Wellington, Feb-18. • According to- returns, compiled by the "TradeJ.leview." there;wasa shortage .of £500,000 in the exports of the Dominion for the last quarter of 19pS._ as compared with the -corresponding"' period of 1907. This is; more apparent than real; the writer states. In wool alone there is a decrease of £383,592. The weight of wool •bliipments, however, shows a--s!n triage, of. less than five per cent, equal in value tp barely £57,000, so that to tho extent of £326,000 the decreased !,nly a difference in valuations, and'quite r«isleading the valuations in_ Be'cmhtr, 1907, having been excessive^ ."More-, - oyer,. the December,quarter is always ■an unsatisfactory:! one'for purposes- of comparison. It is always a busy time, for exports, 'and a little/lateness or forwardness in -operations, or in: the season.'.or,even the passing. of Custom House entails may .affect the question -the. exports are recorded in; December.of in January, a different month-and year, and thus^a fictitious-appearance of increase or decrease may be created.' ■ ._ j " _: ■ ■' •' . ■ . „ I