TRADE RETURNS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7956, 3 February 1906, Page 5

TRADE RETURNS.

FIGURES FOR LAST i'EAR. IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND SHIPPING. Details of the imports and exports of the colony during the quarter ended December 31st, last, appear in Thursday night's Gazette. The imports totalled £3,4=75,051, as against £3,254,966, for the last quarter of 1904. Of this total the United Kingdom sent goods valued at £1,979,112, Australia and Tasmania £546,477, United States £405,106, Fiji £231,796, and Europe £157,351. For the whole year the imports totalled £12,826,691, a decrease of £465,943 on the 1904 figures. The exports during the December quarter totalled £2,996,315, our best customers being: United Kingdom *2,015,760, Australia and Tasmania £664,694, and United States £173,380'. The total is a decrease of £18,044-on the last quarter of 1904. The total exports for 1905 amount to £15,655,947, an increase of £907,599 on the exports of 1904. The following figures give the values of our chief exports in the laat three months of 1905, the corresponding 1904 figures being in brackets—Wool £820,753 (£981,602); gold, £501,788 (£442,998); butter, £500,770 (£510,442); kauri gum, £182,673 (£129,320); flax, £137,254 (£164,979); frozen meat (all kinds), £202,981 (£252,192). The Gazette also contains statistical details of the shipping of the various ports for the last quarter of 1905, and for the whole year. During the quarter the vessels entered inwards numbered 159, of a total tonnage of 282,596 tons, the figures for the five chief ports being: Auokland, 67 vessels, 143,692 tons; Wellington, 29 vessels, 65,765 tons; Lyttelton, 10 vessels, 8,986 tons; Danedin, 11 vessels, 19,997 tons; Buff, 16. vessels, 31,108 tons. For the whole year the total was: Vessels, 627, tonnage 1,139,410— a very slight deorease on the 1904 figures. The vessels entered outwards during the quarter numoered 159, of a total tonnage of 285,046 tons, the figures for the chief ports being: Auckland, 60 vessels, 100,796 tons; Wellington, 28 vessels, 96,391 tons; Lyttelton, 3 vessels, 3,676 tons; Danedin, 10. vessels, 25,028 tons; Bluff, 15 vessels 32,593. For the whole yerir the totals are: Vessels •627, tonnage 1,142,552.