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Return showing Value of Principal Imports of Australian Produce into New Zealand, and Rate of Duty thereon, specifying State whence Imported (Australian Values), during 1900.

Specie imported : Victoria, £120,000. W. T. Glasgow, Department of Trades and Customs, Secretary and Inspector. Wellington, 16th October, 1901.

Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, not «iven ; printing (1,375 copies), JE7 Bs. 6d.

Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9ol.

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Item. Rate. , 7 . . . New South QueensVictoria. Wales _ \ na _ South Australia. Z285L T — Total. Sugar and molasses .. Coal Timber ja. ib. Free Various Free Various Free Is. 6d. cwt. 20 % and free 5s. gal. 5 % chiefly Various Free 16s. gal. Free Free 22J % and free 20% Free £1 each 15 % and free 25% 20 % and free Id. per lb. Free 25 % and 20 % 20% Free 22J % Free Various 25% Free Free 20% Free Free Free 20% Free 20% Jd. per lb. £ 14,445 £ £ 68,806 £ £ £ £ 83,251 71,308 49,289 33,853 23,056 16,441 16,449 13,792 17,038 45,532 14,941 13,637 7,384 5,995 5,374 936 1,812 Manures Fruit, fresh Bark Lead, sheet Bicycles and parts Wine Machinery, n.o.e.* Leather and leatherware Tin ingots Spirits Salt Glass bottles Grindery Cordage Charcoal Horses .. 511 356 2,281 2,621 692 13,792 1,405 38,675 11,805 71,308 37,903 29,156 16,244 400 15,757 8 3,831 172 10,695 510 4,531 8,656 4,764 3,957 6,857 2,998 13,512 1,764 1 11 11,675 *127 125 5*133 51 *436 5,995 2,988 3 298 2,386 933 1,514 Drugs Furniture Carriages, and materials for Baisins Books Stationery Metal manufactures .. Rice Boots and shoes Copper ingots Acids Apparel Plants Skins Engines, boilers for .. Coke Iron, angle „ wire netting Bail and tramway plant Machinery, agricultural Woodenware Cornflour Miscellaneous 740 1,360 1,348 3,276 814 2,593 3,294 **25 4,041 2,174 3,951 3,294 2,911 3,106 2,889 2,385 2,140 4,640 3,688 1,404 1,393 2,970 937 1,020 1,792 1,984 1,824 3,976 383 1,088 1,788 33,443 "to 2,911 2,975 2,699 2,385 2,140 2,967 108 161 6 "l7 29 1,399 1,187 2,110 390 1,673 3,688 5 206 860 547 1,020 1,792 1,984 1,824 3,976 20 363 1,088 1,788 14,926 16*233 *500 1,031 *32 721 1137,781 248,763 73,214 23,957 204 25,390 509,309 Mostly dredging machinery,