Exports of New Zealand.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1894, Page 2

Exports of New Zealand.

The New Zealand Trade Review, in its issues for this mail, has an interesting analysis of the export trade of the colony for the year ended on the 30_i September last, a period which constitutes the best wool year for New Zealand, as it covers the clip of one season "complete and unmiugled." Tte Review's table gives details of the values of the several classes of products shipped from the colony as a whole, and from the North Island and South Island respectively, and from seven of our most important ports — namely, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru, Wellington, Auckland, and Napier. The ex. ports from the minor ports not enumerated are included in the totals which are given of their respective islands. The respective totals for the two islands are as follows :— Omitting Gold Gross, and Specie. South Island £4,789,610 £3,960,669 North Island £4,200,894 £8,965,126 Apart, therefore, from gold and specie, the trade of the North Island has slightly the advantage. The Review gives the following as the values of shipments of New Zealand produce, apart from gold, from the seven principal ports :- Lyttelton, £1,620,220; WeUington, £1,372,988 ; Napier, £978,---592; Auckland, £880,450; Dunedin, £672,862; Invercargill, £642,467; Timam, £490,771. Auckland's total, of £1,166,028 (specie omitted) includes £620,137 for kauri gum and gold, leaving only £545,886 for other merchandise. The chief wool ports are : Lyttelton, £889,587; Wellington, £835,562; Napier, £752,028 ; Dunedin, £861,692 ; Timarn, £856,274 ; Invercargill, £806,894. In frozen meat Lyttelton leads with £543,392; Wellington is second with £202,475; then Napier, £177,096 ; and Invercargill, £125,227. Butter shipments from Wellington are valued at £88,588; New Plymouth, £70,123 ; Auckland, £48,023 ; Lyttelton, £26,822; Dunedin, £26,881. Of the shipments of wool the follow, ing curious details are given ; — North Island. South Island The total values were ... £2,214,786 £2,174,509 Total weight 61,218,7031 b 67,261,7541 b Sheep (on 30th April) 10,991,842 9,130,714 Average value per lb ... B§d 7Jd Thus the South Island, with more sheep by about 20 per cent., exports less wool by about 10 per cent., but esti. mates its total value as more by nearly 2 per cent. The differences are ascribed to the classes of wool raised in the two islands. The total values of gold exported were L 723.152 from the South Island, and L 202.099 (all from Auckland) from the North. Butter— L6o.246 from the South and L 214.239 from the North. Cheese— L 76.000 from the South, and L 28,669 from the North.-~N.Z. Times.