THE COLONY'S EXPORTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3389, 8 October 1900, Page 3

THE COLONY'S EXPORTS.

♦ The jtfew Zealand Shipping Company has just issued a leaflet giving m concise form the direct exports from New Zealand to the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June last. Xhe.se are iiiierc.sti:.^ as showing the extent to which we tank tv the Mother Country as a market for our produce. The totals of the dhfwent classes of exports are given as under: — Frozen meat, 3,436,281 sheep (each 601 b! ;wool and skins, 403,416 bales-; leather and basils, 5218 bales ; ilax, 62,734 bales ; tallow and pelts, 59,625 casks ; preserved meats, 39,057 cases ; wheat, peas, and beans, 338,502 sacks ; oats, 66,894 sacks ; grass need, 28,628 sacks; butter, 9285 tons; cheese, 4459 tons ; frozen hares and rabbits, 217,121 crates ; gum, 49,994 packages ; sundries, 2986 tons. Lyttelton headed the list as the port shipping most frozen mutton, 1,021,010 sheep, or nearly one-third of the total, leaving that port. * Wellington came next with 875,019 sheep, and Timaru third with 430,793 sheep. In the export of wool and skins, Wellington was first with 121,010 bales, Lyttelton next with 72,313, and Napier close up third with 63,438. Auckland was responsible for the export of the whole of the gum ; Wellington sent about five-sixths of the flax ; while Lyttelton and Timaru between them shipped almqst the whole of the wheat, peas, and beans. The Bluff came to the front with frozen rabbiti and hares, more than one-half of the crates being shipped from that port, the greater part of the balance going from Port Chalmers. Wellington forwarded 27,819 of the 39.057 cases of preserved meats sent Home. The vessels which conveyed the goods were C>9 steamerß, of a gross register of 372,396 tons, and 44 sailing vessels, of 54,062 tons net register.