TRADE RETURNS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8044, 5 February 1906, Page 3

TRADE RETURNS.

FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR. Details of the imports and exports of the colony during Ihe quarter ended 31st December last apjicir in the last •' Gazette." The imports totalled C 3,175,051, as ngmnst £3.251.'.Ki1l for the hist quarter of 1904. Of Ibis total llie United Kingdom sent goods valued al C 1.979.112. Australia and Tasmania £5 Ml. 177, United States £ 105,10(1, Fiji t2:i1,7!M1. and Europe £157,3.31. For the whole year the imports totalled £12.826.691. a decrease of £-165,943 on the 1901 figures. The exports during the December quarter totalled £2,996,315, onr best customers being: United Kingdom £2,015,71)0. Australia nn d Tasmania £6(54,81)4, and United state, £173,380. The total is a decrease of £lß,Oll on the last quarter of 1901. The total exports for 1905 amount to £15,655,947, an increase of £907,5()<j on the exports of 1901,

The following (ig uros ffve the value of onr chief exports in the last three months of 1905, the corresponding 1901 figures being in brackets:—Wool £820,753 (£981,602); gold £501.788 (£442,998); butter £500.770 (£510,412) kauri gum £182,673 (£129.320); flax £137,254 (£164,979); frozen meal (all kinds), £202J)81 (£252.192). The Gazette also contains statistical details of the shipping of the various ports for the last quarter of 1905 and for the whole year. During the quarter the vessel* entered inwards numbered 159, of a total bnnage ot 383.596 tons the figures for the five chief ports being: Auckland, 67 vessels, 143,692 tons; Wellington, 29 vessel*, 65,765 tons; Lvttclton 10 vessels, 8986 tons ; Dunedin. 11 vessels, 19,997 ton a; Bluff, 16 vessels, 31,108 tons. For the whole year the total was: Vessels, 627, tonnage 1,139,11(1 —a very slight decrease on the 1901 figures.

Tile vessels entered outwards during the quarter numbered 1011, of a t ( otal tonnage 0 f 285,01(5 tons, the figures for thecchefi e f ports being: Auckland, 60 vessels, 100,79(5 tons ; Wellington, 28 vessels, 915.391 tons; Lyttelton, 3 vessels. 3(57(5; Dimediu,, 10 vessels. 25,028 tons; Bluff, 15 vessels (52,593. For the whole year Ibe totals are: Vessels (527, tonnage 1,112,552.