DECREASE IN IMPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1921, Page 5

DECREASE IN IMPORTS.

BIG INCREASE IN EXPORTS.

TARANAKI FIGURES.

Thursday’s Gazette contains a return of the value of the imports at the several ports of New Zealand during the quarter ending June 30, 1921, as compared. with the imports for the corresponding quarter of last year. The-re-turn shows that our imports from the United Kingdom for the first quarter totalled £6,013,616, as compared with £6,995.259 for the June quarter of 1920; while the grand total of our imports was £12.532,365 last quarter, as against £14,407,613 in the June quarter of 1920.

On the other hand the Dominiona exports to the United Kingdom last quarter totalled £12.155,818, as against £7,815,129 for the correepondng period of the previous vear; while the whole of the Domnion’s exports for the quarter totalled £14.008,293, against £ll,406,084 for the June quarter of 1920 The total value of the imports at the principal ports were as follows, the corresponding figures for 1920 being given in parentheses:—Auckland £4,167,450 (£4,436,972); Gisborne, £90,316 (£71,547); New Plymouth £147.460 (£94,551); Wanganui £146.405 (£121,371); Wellington £3.834,645 (£4,862,507); Napier £243 279 (£262,665); Nelson £44,054 (£60,811); Greymouth £44,138 ( £33.270); Lyttelton £1,946 259 (£2,292,571); Timaru £145,548 (£164.015); Dunedin £1,428.485 (£1,686,905); Invercargill £201,355 (£243.635); totals. £12.532,365 (£14,407,613).