DOMINION WARES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5034, 1 October 1926, Page 3

DOMINION WARES.

ENGLAND OUR BEST CUSTOMER. TRADE GROWS WITH GERMANY. As a general rule four-fifths; of the Dominion’s exports find their way to the United Kingdom. A certain amount of this produce, mainly in the nature, of wool, is subsequently reshipped from Great Britain to the Continent and to America. Imports; from the United Kingdom .to the Dominion usually approximate one-half of the total. Actual percentages- for 1925 were : Exports, 79.76 ; imports, 48.68. The above information is contained in a report on trade and shipping in New Zealand for the year 1925, which has just been issued from the Government Statistician’s office. Practically the whole of the exports the report) represents the actual produce of the Dominion, so that the re-export trade is comparatively small. During 1925 the value of the produce or manufactures of other countries exported from New Zealand Amounted to £741,241, and was concerned mainily with Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa. During and .after the war period New Zealand’s trade with the UnitedStates attained considerable dimensions, the peak year being 1920, when the total trade amounted to olver £lB,000,000. Although the years 1921 and 1922 witnessed a substantial drop as a result of the post-war trade depression considerable progress wasi made in subsequent years. In point of fact, the 1925 figures—imports, £8,885,265 ; and exports, £4,349,758—are secolnd in magnitude only to the record totals, of 1920. As explained later, motor vehicles and accessories and motor spirit constitute thq bulk of the imports from the United States. Trade with Australia is also consid-. erable, the figures for 1925 being: Imports, £5,249,493, a decrease of £400,000 as compared with the previous year; and exports, £2,502,113, which is £7OOO less than the 1924 total. The' imports were made, up chiefly of wheat timber, coa ; l, fruit, chocola'-e, confectionery, tobacco, drugs, and chemicafls, and leather goods.

Imports of Canadian origin in 1925 were valued at £3,916,237, as compared with £3,914,404 in 1924. Thq figure for 192'5 constitutes ,a record, and is made, up chiefly of motor Vehicles; and parts (£2,019,909). Exports to Canada do not assume very great proportions, the 1925 total of. £423,068 being the lowest since 1911.