NEW ZEALAND’S TRADE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4934, 3 February 1926, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND’S TRADE.

ENGLAND’S BEST CUSTOMER. “The remarkable progress that. New Zealand has made,” days the “Pally. Mail Year Book” for 1926, “is- shown in the fact that she now provides Great Britain with almost one quart-r if Lor imported butter supplies, omhalf of her imported cheese, half the mutton and lamb, nearly one-quarter of the wool, and about pne<hirt of the tallow.' No other overseas country, not even the great continents which compete with her, can claim that distinction. In trade she leads the world in per l capita figures. Last year- the total of her imports and exports amounted to £101,000,000, or £75 per head —the Dominion’s population being about 1,350,000.

Of New Zealand’s total trade of £101,000,000, £65,000,000 sterling wa’si with the United Kingdom. Her exports in 1924 were more per capita—£3B 12s—than those of -any other country, and of the total export 80 per cent, came to Great Britain. Her imports amounted to £35 15s per head of the population, and of .the total over £23,000,000 worth wtere purchased from Britain herself, equal to £l7 per head. Thus New Zealanders are the best customers per head Britain possesses."