RETURNS OF EXPORTS.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. --. In Parliament yesterday afternoon Mr. Okey (Taranaki) asked the Government whether, in order to get a more accurate account of the exports of the Doniinion, they will consider the advisability of altering the time for tho taking of the returns of the exports and imports for the year from March 31 to September 30, as a truo index of the volume of the trade for tho year could bo obtained at that time. The Hon. P. M. B. Fisher (Minister for Customs) replied that tho annual returns were made up to December 31 each year, not to March 31.. As all other annual returns in the volume of trade and interchange were made up according to ■tho calendar year, and as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and South Africa made up their annual returns for tho same period it would unset the returns for comparative purposes to alter tho time of closing to September 30. The accuracy of the returns would not.bo affected by the time of closing. A fortnightly return of the articles of principal export was now issued, and the same return was rendered at the end of each quarter. An index of the volume of export trndo conld therefore be obtained for anv period that might be required.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 8
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216RETURNS OF EXPORTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 8
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