BRITISH TRADE
SOME HEAVY DECREASES LAST MONTH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Board of Trade returns for October show: Imports, £79,034,000; exports, £42,559,000 and re-exports £5,445,000. The principal decreases, compared with October, 1937, are: —Imports of grain and flour, £3, 183,000; meat, 971,000; dairy produce, £533,000; other food, £633,000; iron ore and scrap, £678,000; wood and timber, £2,295,000; raw cotton and waste, £2,090,000; wool, £1,376,000; rubber, £652,000; hides and skins, £484,000; seeds and nuts, £718,000; iron and steel manufactures, £l,533,000; non-ferrous metals, £614,000. Decreases in exports are: —Iron and steel, £1,042,000; non-ferrous metals and mariufactures. £599,000; cotton yarns and manufactures, £1,565,000; woollen and worsted manufactures, £442,000.
Increases in imports are:—Animals, £545,000; tobacco, £1,235,000 and chemicals, £525,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 6
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