EXTERNAL TRADE OF NEW ZEALAND, 1927.
Preliminary figures issued by the Census and Statistics Office show that exports for the calendar year 1927 amounted to £48,496,354, and imports to £44,782,946, leaving an excess of exports of £3,714,408. Corresponding figures for 1926 were — exports, £45,275,575 ; imports, £49,889,563 ; balance in favour of imports, £4,613,988. The result for 1927 is therefore /8,328,39b more favourable to the Dominion than that of the preceding year. Exports show an advance of £3,220,779, a position due mainly to increases of /2,220,193 in butter and /i, 13'1,556 in wool. Other items showing an appreciable advance over the previous year’s figures are : Frozen beef, £71,875 ; frozen lamb, £418,576; calf-skins, £4 7,194 ; hides, £120,094. The most noteworthy decreases occurred in cheese, £356,763 ; rabbit-skins, £146,507 ; phormium fibre, £52,470 : kauri-gum, £54,133 ; timber, /5O,292.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 20 February 1928, Page 124
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131EXTERNAL TRADE OF NEW ZEALAND, 1927. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 20 February 1928, Page 124
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