EXPORTS FOR THE YEAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13293, 23 May 1907, Page 7

EXPORTS FOR THE YEAR.

THE INCREASES—AND WHAT THEY ARE DUE TO. AN INTERESTING ANALYSIS. The New Zealand "Trade R-eview"_ just issued. contains a. valuable analysis of exports from New Zealand for the year. It is stated that the main factor in the heavy increase from year to year is the rise in the price of wool, and it- is to be remembered that the'greater part of the season's clip leaves the colony in the March quarter. ' Here are the exports for the last, two years for the several ports (exclusive of &I ' 6CI Ports. ' 1906-7. 1805-6.

The value of tlid principal commodities exported during the last two years were

Totals ... 19,531,588 16,267,329 Of the three millions increase in the latest year over two millions accrues in the* North Island, and about one million in the South, and overs' line shows increment greater or less. In the quantity of wool exported there was an increase 'if 21,082,4861b5, -equal to about 14 5-8 jjer c-ent. This, at last year's prices, would account for an enhancement in value of some £BBO,OCO, leaving .about£62o.COO or over 10 per ' cent., to be represented by higher prices. Frozen meat shows increase in quantity equal to about SSj per cent. The total of 2.279,000 cwt. approaches the record year of meat shipment from New Zealand, namely the twelvemonth which close on the 30th June, 1903. when the total quantity was 2.482.602 cwt. The heavy shipments of that period were, it is well known, the outcome of special demand fur South Africa, and resulted in a diminution of two millions in the flocks of New Zealand, and a- "falling-off in our subsequent exports ■of meat. An increase of per cent, should have resulted in an addition of over £1,000,000 to the value of exports, but by a reduction in market prices the increment is brought down to £733,000. This increase is, therefore, entirely due to quantity. Tallow shipments are heavier by over 44 pet- cent. The rate 011 last- year's vaiue gives an increase of £145.000. so thai of the actual increase of £205,000, about £6O.GOC results from better prices. JSuttler shipments are increased in quantity by only about 2% per cent. On the vaiue "this would give something less than £40,000. so that the improvement of about £79.000 is to the extent of nearly one-half caused by improved prices. Cheese exports are heavier in qunntity by over 51 per cent., so that of the actual increase of nearly £185,000, nearly £50.C0 resulls from better prices. Kauri (lum has a. falling off in quantity at the rate of nearly per cent. Th':- decrease in value is only equal to about 6£ per cent., so that the loss would have been heavier by nearly 11 per cent., but for an improvement in prices.

Hemp weight is greater by- about 2 per cent., which would give only about £14.000 on value. Ihe actual ■ improvement ol" £156,000 is, therefore, mainly the. result of higher prices. Hie exports of cereals and grain-stuffs have fallen off to comparatively insignificant proportions, the total of all classes reaching only £140,000, of which .nearly half consists of oats.

Summing up the results of (he'-e comparison it would appear that on thr; occasion we arrive at the satisfaclory conclusion that of the increase of £3.C00,000 in the total value of exports, somethins over £2,000,000 is attributable to additional output, compute! at the values of the latest vear. ®

£ £ Auckland ... 3,265.617 2,776,017 Poverty Bay ... 947,286 701,513 Xapier ... 1,479,617 1,176,8J2 Xev Plymouth and Waitara ... ■ ... 772,244 ' 540, T Wellington ... 3.781,297 Oihfr'X.l". ports ... 1,C66,735 820,722 " . Toial . 11,312,696 9,040.239 I-vlei ton ... ... 3-056,255 2,581,632 Tim arn ' ... ..■ 1,230,813 1,057,056 UuiM-din ... 1,620.011 1,619,725 Bluti' ... 1,081.637 872,659 Other S.I. port* ... 1,111,484 1,055,391 Total . 8,100^200 '7,186,463

as follows :—• " Goods. 1906-7. . 1905-6. £ £ Wool 7.529,188 6,028.C93 Meat—Frozen 3.262,736 2,529,365 Preserved 100,127 • 72.505 Cured and sailed 14,957 17,067 Tallow ... ... 535,382 329,999 Butter 1,522,113 1,443,284 Chen*' • ... 449.676 265,084 Sheepskins 760,114 499.325 Rabbibskins ../* 46,623 73.792 .Sausage' Skins 64,259 43,089 Live >Stock 72,055 65,259 IHlrb 158.220 105.456 Leather ... ' ' 57,528 • 53,392 Gold 2.220,517 2,117,606 Silver 156,690 134,353 Kauri Gum 524,249 560,986 Timber 293.387 308,120 Coal 132.375 114,150 Winat 65,038 148,248 Oat* ••• . 68.791 88,942 Barley 19,510 11,263 Maize ... 197 116 Beans and peas 32,089 58.414 Flour 2,196 3,875 Pollard, bran, and oatmeal 11,925 12,368 Grass seed 79.076 94,472 Potatoes 1.463 2,268 Hop.s 16,372 22,165 Hemp 850,653 694,545 Fish 19,152. 24.651 Fungus 10,253 8,318 Apparel 2,107 3,018 Woollen* 3.634 4,608 Other Produce 253,901 197,383 Total Produce 19,272,640 16,115,609 Re-exports 157,018 131,603 Specie 96,930 20,117