NEW ZEALAND'S EXPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND'S EXPORTS.

A KECOIID YEAB. [United Press Association.] Feilding, April 17. Tho Prime Minister to-day opened tli.i> Foildiug freezing works, which cost over £-50,000, and have a capacity of 1200 sheep and 60 cattle per day. Mr Massey spoke of the exports for the year to March 31st, 1916, which were as follows: Meat, £7,4:>3,399 • butter, G2,----949,787; cheese, £319.780; wool, .£ll,----769,297. The total value of exports for the year was £33,781,711, a record which' no country in the world had equalled in proportion to its population. Sii'ce the inception- of the Imperial meat scheme the payments for meat totalled £8,443,317. Eighty-seven ships had been despatched, and. at present there were soven insulated ships on. the New Zealand coast and more were arriving. The total capacity of the wteamers now ni< the coast ir^d to arrive by the end of June, available for the carriage of mr-at. dairy produce, etc., was 2,290,500 freight carcases.