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Table No. 14. QUANTITIES of Principal Articles (the Produce and Manufacture of the Colony) exported during the Financial Years 1887-88 and 1888-89.

Table No. 15. Classified Balances at Credit of Depositors on 31st December, 1888, in the Post Office Savings-Bank.

By Authority : George Didsboby, Government Printer, Wellington.—1889.

_ Articles. 1887-88. 1888-89. Increase in 1888-89 unless marked "Beer." Wool* .. Tallow Hides .. Sheepskins Leather Babbitskins ' Gold .. Silver Coal .. Other minerals Flour Bran and sharps Wheatt Barleyf Malfcf .. Oatsf Oatmeal Potatoes .. Hops Grass seeds Butter Cheese ... Bacon and hams Salt beef ■Preserved meats Frozen meat Fish Kauri gum Phormium Cordage Sawn (and hewn) timber Fungus.. Ale and beer Soap 1b. tons .. number .. number owt. .. number oz. oz. tons tons tons tons .. bushels .. bushels .. bushels .. bushels owt. tons owt. .. bushels lb. lb. cwt. owt. cwt. lb. owt. tons tons cwt. feet cwt. .. gallons cwt. 92,485,828 7,132 43,358 441,995 9,456 12,125,871 203,883 20,309 48,410 1,632 1,581 8,127 666,237 88,840 26,113 2,849,653 24,971 15,502 2,169 164,550 2,472,624 3,381,616 8,987 14,908 39,354 49,363,888 5,001 7,263 1,812 348 33,791,992 8,050 17,381 3,527 87,077,030 7,358 46,232 315,967 19,619 12,593,177 211,764 22,179 64,863 5,213 7,606 15,556 2,745,784 114,308 1,294 2,723,102 28,979 13,047 2,124 274,772 3,631,376 3,731,840 7,195 16,171 46,562 63,003,472 7,290 8,533 5,603 668 44,219,840 9,975 20,966 4,161 Doer. 5,408,798 226 2,87.4Decr. 126,028 10,163 467,306 7,881 1,81* 16,453 3,581 6,025 7,429 2,079,547 25,468 Deer. 24,819 Deer. 126,551 4,008 2,545 Deer. 45 110,222 1,158,752 350,224 Deer. 1,792 1,262 7,208 13,639,584 2,289 1,270 3,791 320 10,427,848 1,925 3,585 634 ♦ Of the decrease in the quantity exported in 1888-89, about 2,001 lurchased for the woollen mills in ]888 on the quantity purchased in If I- All grain—Bushels : 1887-88, 3,030,843 ; 1888-89, 5,684,488 ; increase 1,! XOOOlbs. are accounted for by the increase in the quantity 87. 053,645.

Year. Not exceeding £20. Between £20 and £50. Between £50 and £100. Between £100 and £200. Between £200 and £300. Between £300 and £400. Between £400 and £500. Over £500. Total Number all Accounts. 1886 57,368 8,243 4,852 3,112 883 219 117 77 74,871 1887 60,043 9,140 5,381 3,631 1,021 266 140 102 79,724 1888 62,831 9,918 5,690 4,082 1,279 372 194 122 84,488