New Zealand Exports.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 9 April 1903, Page 20

New Zealand Exports.

A RECORD YEAR. The statistics of the exports of dairy produce and meat for the year ended 31st March are just to hand from the Government statistician They show as has been foreshadowed from time to tune by 'Ministers in recent addresses in different parts of the country that the exports ol these departments are increasing by leaps and bounds. The expoi ts of lamb for the month oi Al.nch constituted a record for- the Colony. the value oi the carcases sent out ol the Colony amounting to £.255 37H as against £142,932 for the corresponding month oi 1902. The same comparison is shown in almost every department of dairy and meat exports. Butter last month was 27,230cvvt, valued at £128,580, as against 26,025cwt, valued at £118117; cheese— l 2 O4Ocwt, valued at £30,722, against 10,778cwt, valued at £22,360 ; beef— ls,6s7cwt, \ alued at £21,120 as against 18,289cwt, valued at £20,996 ; mutton 169,415cwt, valued at £201,762, as against 101 188cv\t, valued at £103,460 ; mutton (legs and pieces)— 10416cwt, valued at £11,945, as against 849] cwt, valued at £9119. In the aggregate the dairy produce export for the month of March .shows an increase of £18 825 over March of last year, and the meat export figures show an increase of £211.698, or about 75 per cent The total exports from our dairies and pastures in March 1902, were £418,984. Last month they were £649,507. The figures for the last nine years show a great development in the exports Since 1895 the exports have increased as follows : — Butter, from £263 244 to £1,269,076 ; cheese, lrom £160,383 to £175 9<>3 beef from £33,554 to £323,711 , mutton (carcases)' from £991,165 to £1,466,000; mutton (legs and pieces) lrom £991,165 (in 1900) to £108,781 ; lambs, from £259 816 to £1,048,115. The butter and cheese exported in 1888 was worth £197,170 ; in the year just ended it was. worth £1,445,579. The meat exported in 1888 was valued at £628,800 . last year its value was £2,94(5,607. The total exports for the year ended 31st March weie :

3utter .., Jheese 3eef Mutton (carcases) ... tfutton (legs and pieces) Lamb Uwt ... 263,1 37 74,393 251,640 ... 1,252,803 93 209 667,472 Value £1,269,676 175,903 323,711 1,466,000 108,781 1,0-18,115