DOMINION'S EXPORTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 5

DOMINION'S EXPORTS

OVER £7,000.000, LAST QUARTER

ORIGIN AND DESTINATION

.Tile total viluo of'exports from tho Dominion during tho quarter ended September 30 last was £7,067,404, as compared with £6,444,435 for the same quarter of last year. Tho advance is tho more important by reason of the fact .that in the quarter just closed no specie was exported, whereas the figures for the September quarter of 1915 include £215,143 worth of specie exported from Auckland.

Wellington lends as the biggest exporting port, the figures for the principal I seaports as follow:—Wellington, £1,443,912; Auckland, £1,820,535; Lyttelton, £967,425; Invercargill, £753,887; Dunedin, £551,605; Gisborne, £385.213; • Napier, £384,631;Timaru, £302,914; Wanganui, £297,813. None of the other ports exceeded £200,000. Regarding the smaller ports it will surprise most people to learn that Patea, £189,629, and Waitara; £127,885, exceeded Groymouth, £113,568, New Plymouth/ £94.462, Pioton and. Blenheim combined, £87,361; Nel-' son, £31,105; Westport, £20,697; and Onmaru, £4225.

The biggest purchaser of theso exports was the TJnited Kingdom, which took £5,831,994 worth. Of tho rest, over three-ouarters of a million went to British' possessions, including £-578,518 to Australia and £165,136 to Canada. 'About £3401)00 worth, went to foreign countries. America bought goods from us to the valuo of a quarter of a million, and tho rest wont to various Pacific islands.