New Zealand's Export of Gold. SIXTY-SEVEN MILLIONS STERLING

Progress, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 February 1906, Page 87

New Zealand's Export of Gold. SIXTY-SEVEN MILLIONS STERLING

The export of gold from New Zealand last year was greater by 146 ounces than that for 1904, the respective totals being 520,486 ounces, of the value of £2,093,936, and 520,320 ounces, of the value of £1,987,501, and it was the largest since 1871, when the Thames was producing gold in such quantities. The importance of the industry is shown by the fact that since 1857 (the first year when a record was kept) the colony has sent away 17,146,630 ounces, of the value of £67,230,584, made up as follows :—: —

The export of December was 37,951 ounces, of the value of made up as follows :—Auckland, 22,982 ounces, ; Otago, 6,476 ounces, ; Greymouth, 6,395 ounces, ; Southland, 1,917 ounces, ; Nelson, 181 ounces, /725. The return was larger by about 8000 ounces than in December of the previous year. In December of last year New Zealand exported 183,661 ounces of silver of the value of £18,479, as compared with 56,693 ounces, of the value of m December, 1904

Year. Oz. value. 1857 1858 1859 iB6O 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 10,34/ 13.534 7,336 4.538 194,031 410,862 628,450 480,171 574-574 735.376 686,905 637-474 614,281 544,880 730029 445.370 505.337 3/6,388 355.322 322,016 371.685 310,486 287,464 305,248 270,561 251,204 248,374 229,946 237,371 227,079 203,869 201,219 203,211 193.193 251,996 238,079 226,811 221,615 293.491 263,694 251,645 280,175 389.558 373,6i6 455.561 508,045 533>3*4 5 2 0,3 2 3 520,486 i 40,422 52,464 28,427 17,585 751.873 1,591,389 2,431.723 1,856,837 2,226,474 2,844,517 2,698,862 2,504,326 2,362,995 2,157.585 2,787,520 1,731,261 1,987.425 1. 505. 33 1 1,407,770 1,284,328 1,496,080 1,240,079 1,148,108 1,227,252 1,080,790 1,002,720 993-352 92L797 948,615 903,569 811,100 801,066 808,549 773,438 1,007,488 954.744 913.U8 887,839 1,162,164 1,041,428 980,204 1,080,691 1. 513.173 1,439602 1,753783 L95M33 2,037,831 1.987,501 2,095,936 Totals. . 17,146,630 67,230,584