THE PORT OF WANGANUI.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13675, 8 May 1912, Page 3

THE PORT OF WANGANUI.

OVERSEA TRADE FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 1912. The following interesting figures of 11m oversea trade (imports ami exports) for the port of Wanganui are taken from a Gazette issued this week: IMPORTS. Briti-li Possessions—United Kingdom £57,871, Victoria. ,£2772. New South Wales £4244, Queensland .£49, South Australia £296, Tasmania £6B, Hong Kong .£,>(), Hen gal ,£147. Ceylon £425, Singapore £2BO, Cape of Good Hope ,£l9, Mauritius £49, Canada £657, llritish West Indies Mid; foreign countries and possessions— Germany ,£2247, Trance £lB9, Italy ,£25, Spain ,£25, Norway .£.(14, Sweden £l7, Belgium £257, Holland ,£217, Greece £5, Asia Minor £B4, China £BB, .Japan £220. F.S.A. (Mast Const) 9111, U.S.A. (West Coast) £510; total imports for onarter, ,£81,589; corresponding (juarter, 1911, £52,222. EXPORTS. Value and Quantity.—Timber, 812.075 snp. ft., valued at £410'!: butter, 2511 cwt., £18,042; cheese, 2081 ewt., £5825; meat, preserved 255 ewt., .£(191 ; beef, 1421 cwt., £11)24; mutton, £22,579 carcases, £16.521; mutton, joints 510 cwt., £669; lamb, 2 4,417 carcases. £21,612; miscellaneous skin. 7 cwt., £ll ; sausage skins, 160 cut., £252: sheep skins, 25,484, £2286; tallow, 224 tons. £6812; wool, 5,109,995 Ih, £167,2(11; other kinds, £116; total, New Zealand produce and manufactures. £246,067; other colonial, British, and foreign produce ami manufactures, £2O; total. .£246,097. Of these total exports, £4102 worth went to New South Wales, and the remainder to the United Kingdom.