PRODUCE TRADE OF NEW ZEAL AND

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2185, 5 January 1886, Page 2

PRODUCE TRADE OF NEW ZEAL AND

The Hon. Mr Ballance has. had prepared a report showing the value of articles imported and exported, It will' by it be seen that without protection we are year by year not'only, supplying our own market, but sending away; produce to the.value of over'one and a-lialf'milliA\\ whereas, not half a million's worth cojHp' into the colony, '-,, '• ' "

From the report it is. seen : that after the United Kingdom our best customer is Now South Wales, who took just half what! the Mother Country did, and more than a*. ■ much again as any other country; that that colony has proved a most valuable market for our draught horses, oats, bran, butter," I cheese, and potatoes, and to a less extent 1 wheat, —these seven articlos .having brought us £280,000 in that market alone. ■ The value of alimentary products, &%, imported from and exported to the under- • mentioned countries during last year were'..'. as follows: Imports. Exports, United Kingdom ..; £225,891 £901,025; New South Wales...' 24,590 • 405,123 Victoria ~; .... 42,699 82,187South Australia ... 4,257 42,789 Fiji, South Sea Is- : lands and whalo fisheries,,. ... 13,934 . 85,009 Queensland ... Nil 23,88? Capo Colony ... Nil 12,669 Tasmania 32,608 .12,26? Bengal .., „. Nil 4,163 Mauritius,,, ~, Nil 4,424-. United States .... 34,127 3.152 SrM ~-.' „. Nil jjfe'- 1 Western Australia 12' Hong Kong ... 1,051 ' Nil Germany, Holland, France, and Bel-. .■■•■'■.; gium ... ... 464 Nil' " Totals £409,533 £1*577,528'' The principal articles imported from < tho United Kingdom were grass and{, clover seed, candles, linseed and olive oil,' preserved fish and preserved milk; whilst., the chief articles exported were wheat, ■■-. meat, (frozen aud preserved), flour, grass - seed, butter, cheese, beans,, and -peas. Imported from New South Fresh fruit,, stud horses, cattle, ajj sheep; exported to the - potatoes, butter, bran and sharps,' horses, • wheat, cheese, baconi hams, and malt. Imported from Victoria—Flour, fresh fish, stud sheep, confectionery, candles, and chaff; exported—Oats, grass, and ' clover seed, butter, cheese, barley..,' Soutli Australia: Imports—Flour and.' jam: exports—Oats, barley, and malt. ' Fiji, &c,: Imports—Fresh Fruit; o*» '. ports-Bacon, biscuits, butter, ctajtopreserved meat, potatoes,, aas \fftf i cattle, horses, and sjjieep, QueenslSci':;' Exports—Oais, buttier, '• bran,' shaijpA ' and ' pojaitoes.' Capq Colony:', Exports—wheat; butter, cheese. Tas-' : mania': Imports—Fresh fruit, jams., stud: • sheep;. exports—Salt beef,'wheat, sheep,' oats, and barloy. Bengal:. Horses,' oats, ' and chafl^''' Exports—Oats, bran, Unified; S^ea}. fis;h,'' ; fruity Kops.grass arid.cl.oyer seeds.; export*-. ; rlorsfiSj bacotf, nam, 'Brazi} r < 1 Exports-Potatops aud flour."'.%^/ 1 Australia: Kong; Irapprts— fruit apt fish, Geriviany, Bollan.d, Frau<jo 1 -ano\' Belgium \ |mp.ortST Grass and : clave? |seeds, preserved fryit, starch. .South Sea Islands (including Fiji' and New Caledonia), took £35,000 worth of ow v ( produce, and it may reasonably be ex*'' pected ijqw that there is a regular mail service these figures will be largely increased, '.-•-;

Tho- report contains further fulljtifqr« rnation showing the quantity of each separate article imported and exported during the year, together with the value, . of each. From this part of the return' find that New Zealand imported to the value of fruit, MMi preseVved'milkJlSA'*} *- jiyns, &Q,ssVora/total of £325,845. i In a Ballance, tho head of the department (Mr M'Kerrow), aays: ''ln the matter of candles,:tlidt £75,000 should have been sent out of tha ~ colony in their purchase, when.tajlov,,'' ono of the principal produo^; : #]:tM.] colony, iB almost is , ( It iB wpjth, \yhiie cojisidering. if the lm>'' portation qf candles niado ,from mineral ojls should not be discouraged."—Ex- ' change.