AUSTRALIAN TRADE
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. ; Australia is improving its trade balance ami, like this Dominion, has curtailed its motor imports. , The official trade returns for the whole of Australia for the half year ended December 31 inclusive of gold compare as follow with the July to December period of 1926: D Imports. Exports. a £ £ W July-Dec., 1926 83,9.8.5,000 69,991,000 ' a July-Dec., 191’7 80,888,000 71,639,000 ! b The figures for merchandise only j made a much better showing than the i 11 above, exports in the second half of ■■ £ 1926 having been swollen by gold 11 shipments of £8,614,000, whereas in the last half year gold exports were only £2,212,000. The value of imports of motor chassis in December was only £558,000, compared with £1,443,000 in December 1926, while for the half year motor im- j ports fell in value from £5,573,000 to £3,886,000. •
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20085, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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