WAR PROFITS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11507, 1 October 1915, Page 5

WAR PROFITS.

NEW ZEALAND'S SHARE. EXPORT INCREASES STAGGERING. How much New Zealand has benefited financially from the war may never bo known, but the figures would be startling. A table of the increased value of exports alono for nine months ox war has been prepared by the Employers' Association, the figures being based on a parliamentary return showing the difference in quantity and value of the exports for tho nine months endeu May 1, 1914, and tho nine months ended May I, 1915. The 1915 quantities were reckoned at 1914 rates, and the additicnal value received for them was then ! ascertained. Tho table shows the 1915 quantity, tho percentage of increased ' value, and the aggregate increased ! value, a.s follows (the total increase being nearly two and a half millions) : Increase Not

Total increaso .... i'2,4b/,Jol (In addition to the exports, the extra value collected on articles of local con--1 sumption has been roughly two millions sterling.) ; Discus ing tho figures from the point of view of the Dominion's nbilitv to lielp in the war, Mr J. R- Haywardl, president of the Employers' Association, remarked this morning that whether the farming community or the dealer was getting tho increase he could not say, but the country was benefiting by it, and should be in a position , to assist financially a great deal more I than had been the ca c e.

Export Quantity. )JX. 0. increase. s. But or . Ch,p««i . . Oat* Wheat . H.CU'S Bc«; Lamb (car.) . Mut on (car.) Joints . Veal Potatoes Sheep akins — With wool . Wout wool Wool 390 425cwt -24 6C6 625cwt .11 .110,309 cutis .113 1 664 ciitls .06 176 570 . .28 65'2,304cw*t .08 605,13-lcvrl .27 870 2'Wcwt .43 7.183cwl .44 9 9-8c\vt .2S 13,S57cwt 1.39 405,02J?lb3 .0036' ■135,601 don .01 188,033,272-bs .00" »3,7ro 73 351 57,6E4 99 49,180 373.5151) 157.38" 3-74,200 13 1C0 2,773 19,:2&] 1,471 4.35' 1.0-14,918