Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1905. SOME TRADE FIGURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3559, 12 August 1905, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1905. SOME TRADE FIGURES.

The total declared values of imports into New Zealand during 1904 amounted to £ 13,291,694, being an increase on the corresponding total in 1903 of ,£503,019. These figures, however, include specie. Coin brought into the colony during 1994 was valued at £391,664, against £712,716 in the previous year, so that if these figures are excluded the imports for 1904 show an increase over 1903 of £824,071. The per capita value (Maoris excluded) last year was (including specie) £ls 14s yd and (excluding suede) £ls 14s d 4, as compared with £ls ns rod and £l4 14s sd respectively for T 903 and £9 4s rod and £8 t6s 8d ten vears ago. Last year’s imports from the United Kingdom were valued at £7,982,348, an increase of £469,672 on 1903, from British colonies and possessions at £3,047,354, showing a decrease of £88,120, while foreign States sent us goods valued at £2,262,000, an increase of £121,467. In eleven years imports from British possessions only increased by 36 per cent, while from foreign States they advanced at the rate of 274 per cent, mainly in consequence, the RegistrarGeneral states in his “Official Year Book, ’ ’ from, advance sheets of which we are onoting, of American competitions. The United States contributed £1,527,915 worth of imports, and Germany £308,804. Germany’s trade with tire colony has been trebled in the last nine years, and in the same period the American (United States) figures have been nearly quadrupled, thus giving some idea of the manner in which foreign trade is pushing in to the disadvantage of Britishers. New Zealand exports, on the other hand, show the following comparisons, for the decennial period :6 To United Kingdom, £7,945,64 and £11,876,273 for 1805 and 1904 respectively; to British possessions. £1,091,062 and £2,088,691 ; and to foreign States, £413,516 and £783,384. A noticeable feature is the decline in onr exports to the. United States from £669,649 in 1903 to £598,921 in 1904, a drop of £70.728.