EXPORTS FROM NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 8

EXPORTS FROM NEW ZEALAND

, AN' > INTERESTrNG RETURN. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ; " Clsbqrne, July 19. Interesting statistical- - return's were . presented at the annual meeting of the ■Harbonrt Board to-day;. showing the ■ ;vajue of tho exports per head of popu.lation'at -thfiv.principal ports jri';;jjew •Zealand as k followsGisbonjo district .: 21,585, exports' for year •„ ''£1,506,842, value per Jiead of population. JC69 ,11s.; Napier, .population, " ■•'48,546,'%'x'p.brt5.£1,949,288, value", per- ; I'head £40. 35.,; Plymouth... (Ta'ra- , aaki), population 51,569, . exports -19s;; Welling>ton, • exports per head £26 145.; Lyttel- : fton (Canterbury), population 173,185, . -exports <. : £"4;397,805, 'pcrjiead^£2s;.7s.; - Auckland,' population 244,520, '"exports '£4,024;740,: per • head £16 9s. ; : Otago, . 'population 191,130, exports £2,884,796, jier head £15 Is. ■' ,111 1913 the total value of tin) exports .. . 'of A T ew- Zealand was £22,577,890/ which .-. , <gives an averago of £tsi 2s. 7d. per head of population. \ < At the. port of Gisbonio for. the year : .1914 the "value- of 'iinportsV-showed'" l a . decrease of £28,367,' as coihpai'ed -with 11913;; for the same, period tbo value of .- ithci exports increased by £390,488, in jspito of tho war.. Seventy-four thou-. ■ ssandifour hundred and forty tons were, landed direct at tho. wharves without jwying lighterage. -.. • 'Wo number of vessels arriving shows a slight: increase, representing an extra •tonnage of 102,593' tons, as compared 1913...