OVERSEAS TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 12

OVERSEAS TRADE

IMPROVEMENT IN BRITAIN GOOD INCREASES British Wireless—Press Assn n. RUGBY. Satu £^ An improvement in the British seas trade for October is retort!!*' the Board of Trade returns ** ia ■ 1 were issued to-day. Exports iT!? month totalled £61.000,000 be advance of £ 500.000 compared 0 "' ** September, while imports amounted! 1 £105.000.000. beine an incre!!? U I £3,000,000 compared with Sent^ A comparison of the trade 0 1 nrst ten months of the present | with that for the same period,., ■ shows that the increase in ? - i:s during that period ,« £30.500,000, although the increai^ 001 i October was not great. three or four months have a,- *** been responsible for the greato- LU4jh of the increase of the ten 114,1 showing that the export trade™!?'I'*' 1 '*' country has received an exiraor.p.' o * , impetus in a short time. AU *«arjr VARIOUS STATISTICS Coal has almost reached the level - l 19 - 5 - and iron and steel manuf*chL£ are actually £1.000,000 above 1925. The volume of exports o'?! ° ! I chinery also is almost equivaW . that of two years ago. Imm?.'? the ten months of this year how., 1 * declined bv nearly £IO.OOO 900 pared with 1926. and b T ' *??* £67,000,000, compared with 19-15 0Vf * The imports of the month dee'!.—, by £ 5.963,000, compared with a ago, and the exports increased si £7.990,000. Re-exports decreased s £914,000. The principal increases? imports were:—Grain and tv,.,? £1.658.000: dutiable food and £1,445,000: wood and £1,501.000. The increased were:—Coal. £3.470.000: iron art steel manufactures. £1,820.000 To decreases in imports were:—pj? £7,713,000: raw cotton. £1945090 nonferrous metals, £1,403,000£1,521,000.—A. and N.Z. ’ *■ BUTTER AND CHEESE Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., report hav ing received the following cables fr~i London, New 1 ork and Montreal and., date November 12:— London.—'Butter: Anchor, 17S$ fir... 174 s to 1765; market firm, with enwart tendency; unsalted, 184 s to ISSs, non, inal. Deliveries of New Zealand from cold store last week, 1,154 tons. In store j sitons, the lowest stocks for over tweh> months. Retail unchanged. Danish Vs-, spot; 19Ss f.o.b. firm. Cheese: New'ze, land, 9Ss to 100 s; Canadian. 100 s -o id*, spot: 90s to 95s c.i.f.; prices vary accord ing to quality and maturin'." * f.o N b. W Au!™')^ traS 45 CentS «• hi Montreal.—“ Butter 3S cents (Is 5W stocks, 29 million pounds a era in at 28 mil lion last year. Cheese, 191 cents* 2S millions pounds as against 34 milfon last year. Under date November 11 the London office of AVeddel and Companv cabled it. New Zealand agents, A. H. Turnbull and Company, as follows: m Butter.—Danish, 19Ss to 200 s Zealand unsaited, 184 s to ISSs- New Ze» land salted. 172 s to 1765; New Zealand ■salted, stored, 168 sto 170 s Mark.steady. Cheese.—New Zealand white and coloured, 98s to 100 s: market quiet. Canadian, white and coloured, 100 s to 103 s.