NEW ZEALAND EXPORTS.
A PESSIMISTIC PKOPHECT. :
(By Teleirapu.— Press Aeoclitioe.) ■■: . .'■ — ; — ' : - ■■■.■ '■ ■~■ '
WELLIN&TON, this *y. In the course of his annual statement to the Chamber of Commerce to-day, tta president (3klr. Harkiieas) j-:refernie ,t« New Zealand's -products, said, in iieference to .the iuture :"•; <f I am .npt desiroue rt taking "a pessimistic view of the "pose-; bilities which may eventuate; but; so* far as can be discerned, although there is .io-■^eaa^.•»to■■^l^e^,;^^t■;^we, : ■sliill.•■■,;: have .to .face ;a decided : slump'ui/v«ilue, indications are not wanting ihat thecoming year will not exceed its predecessor in the quantity or Value uf our exports. In addition to ' lower jncea; there may, of course, arise . coiitjngencien that will interfere.■■mOk-jy-trade conditions in the Bbaftsland nut*" rially affecting the'spending power o( that class of the community that <»•* ; perhaps the larger iproportipn of Zealand's exports." EvidisncesJ*re'«Jt : ' wanting that so far as the present year has gone, .-wemust anticipate a-'considar-able shrinkage. in : tlie value of ejgtot* by the end of September, 1908.v.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 4
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