N.Z.’s EASY LEAD
TRADE WITH BRITAIN IMPORTS PER HEAD Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 19. The Economist extracts from a Board of Trade return details of Britain’s twelve best customers in 1938 in the following order: South Africa, Australia, India, Burma, Canada, Germany, United States, Eire, Argentina, New Zealand, Denmark, France, and Holland. When the value of imports per head of population is taken New Zealand is easily first with £ll 19s lid, Eire second with £6 17s 8. and Australia third with £5 10s lid.
WORLD TRADE
REDUCED GOLD VALUE. P.eceived Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, Feb. 19. The gold value of world trade during 1938 was 13.4 per cent, less than in 1937, the net difference being 9 per cent. Owing to the fall in gold prices, exports decreased by 13i per cent., including England and Australia 10 per cent, and New Zealand, Canada, and Japan 15 per cent. Imports decreased by 13.2 per cent., including Britain, 11 per cent., Japan 29 per cent., America 35 per cent., and Czechoslovakia 2i per cent. Germany increased her imports by 11 per cent, and Russia and Australia 4 per cent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 7
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192N.Z.’s EASY LEAD Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 7
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