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Imports of Agricultural Produce. [Jan. 



New Zealand sent 857,500 cwt., as against 750,700 in 1905, but 

 the amount credited to Canada declined from 292,100 cwt. to 

 192,100 cwt. The average value of imported butter was 

 io8s. 2d. per cwt., being 4s. above the declared value in 1905, and 

 8s. 7d. above that of 1904. 



Imports of Dairy Produce, Margarine, and Eggs. 





Quan 



tities. 



Values. 



Description. 





















1905. 



1906. 



1905. 



1906. 



Butter 



Margarine 

 Cheese ... 

 Milk, Condensed 



Cwt. 



4,147,864 

 1,088,259 

 2,442,660 

 893,634 



Cwt. 



4,338,383 

 1, 101,962 

 2,638,776 

 908,019 



£ 



21,585,622 

 2,735,736 

 6,339,742 

 1,5^4,363 



£ 



23,466,252 



2,733,795 

 7,607,641 

 1,563,708 



Eggs 



18,814,261 



18,874,109 



6,812,476 



7,098,137 



Although Canada did not maintain her position in the butter 

 trade, she sent a larger quantity of cheese to this country than 

 in 1905, and in this commodity also a recovery in price has to 

 be noted from 45s. 9d. per cwt. in 1904 to 51s. i id. in 1905, and 

 further to 57s. 8d. in 1906. 



In the egg import trade the changes during the year were not 

 very marked. Russia sent 7,133,000 great hundreds and Den- 

 mark 3,824,000 great hundreds, quantities which were in each 

 case rather less than the figures for last year. The average 

 value of the eggs from all countries was 7s. 6id. per great 

 hundred, as against 7s. 3d. in 1905. 



Impofts of Horses, Poultry, and Miscellaneous Animal Products. 



Description. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



1905. 



1906. 



1905. 



1906. 



Horses ... ... No. 



Poultry and Game £ 



Lard cwt. 



Tallow and Stearine ,, 

 Wool, Sheep, Lambs lb. 

 Sheepskinsjundressed No. 

 Hides* ... ... cwt. 



13,711 



2,012,305 

 1,822,819 

 615,708,827 

 17,531,076 

 508,475 



17,848 



2,049,367 

 1,933,837 

 639,553,059 

 19,942,274 



533,321 



£ 



354,030 

 _ 999,480 



3,692,573 

 2,369,386 

 23,821,825 



1,936,273 

 1,322,890 



535,532 

 985,457 

 4,361,399 

 2,795,815 

 27,154,486 

 2,446,677 

 1,493,009 



* Does not include dry hides. 



