WEALTH OF TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1917, Page 7

WEALTH OF TARANAKI.

EXPORTS EQUAL TO £55 PER HEAD The remarkable productivity of Taranaki is demonstrated by the figures showing the exports for the province during last year. The export? from the three ports, New Plymouth, Patea and Waitara, amounted in value to ' £2,981,447, towards which New Plymouth contributed £1,235,0(13, Patea £1,205,287, and Waitara £540,197. Tarnnaki's population is 50,847, so that its exports on this basis are equal to a little over £55 per head. These figures do not take into account the cattle, sheep, hides and wool sent by road and rail to Wanganui and Wellington, nor are they affected by the amount of dairy produce that, owing to shipping troubles, had to be sent on by rail from Patea to Wellington. These exports are a record for the world. The exports for New Zealand last year amounted to £33,000,000, or about £32 per head of population.

Taranaki land, which has only been scratched so far, could easily support a million people.

The figures for 1013 make interesting reading. The exports from Taranaki during last year amounted to £2,(1.37,410. New Plymouth's contribution was £SBS,663, Patea's £l,20!»,(il!l, and Wnitara's £">(V2,132. Nearly -27,000 tons of cheese and butter, of the total value of £2,288,OUO, was exported from Taranaki. Of the 40,000 tons of produce sent away from Taranaki during 1015, there was 10,000 tons of frozen meat, besides a considerable quantity of wool, tallow, hides and skins, and by-products. Only three district?, exported to a ■jreatcr value thnn Taranaki last year. These were Auckland, Wellington and North Canterbury. Poverty Hay exported produce to the value of £2,000,(HVf, Napier C2,02;-),7.")i. Dunodin £-2,177,•c! 5, luvercargill £-2,17:1,007, Timaru •M 100,478, .and \Van;;anui «USB,72'J.