✨ Trade Statistics
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, March 17th, 1851.
In compliance with instructions from His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, the following Return is published for general information.
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.
A RETURN of the Principal Exports, the Produce and Manufacture of New Zealand, from the Port of Auckland, New Zealand, during the Years 1848, 1849, 1850.
| Description | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | |
| --------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- |
| £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | ||||
| Ambergris | Nil | 0 0 0 | 147 lbs. | 197 0 0 | Nil | 0 0 0 |
| Bacon and Hams | Nil | 0 0 0 | 3 tons 12 cwt. | 129 0 0 | 3 tons 9 cwt. 3 qrs | 147 0 0 |
| Bricks | Nil | 0 0 0 | Nil | 0 0 0 | Nil | 0 0 0 |
| Butter | Nil | 0 0 0 | 200 lbs. | 10 0 0 | 17,500 lbs. | 37 0 0 |
| Cordage | 30 tons 10 cwt. | 668 0 0 | 51 tons 15 cwt. | 1,118 0 0 | 62 tons 10 cwt. | 1,549 0 0 |
| Curiosities | 2 packages | 20 0 0 | 4 packages | 12 0 0 | 84 packages | 95 0 0 |
| Firewood | Nil | 0 0 0 | 60 tons | 21 0 0 | 420 tons | 63 0 0 |
| Flax | 19 tons 10 cwt. | 270 0 0 | 10 tons | 158 0 0 | 37 tons 7 cwt. 2 qrs | 589 0 0 |
| Grain, Barley, Maize & Oats | 326 bushels | 44 0 0 | 3,650 bushels | 580 0 0 | 4,187 bushels | 1,002 0 0 |
| Gum, Kauri | 80 tons | 395 0 0 | 176½ tons | 990 0 0 | 3 cwt. | 1 0 0 |
| Hides and Skins | 1798 | 106 0 0 | 2045 | 130 0 0 | 1618 | 218 0 0 |
| Houses in frame | Nil | 0 0 0 | 87 | 2,969 0 0 | 114 | 3,379 0 0 |
| Oil, Black | 16¾ tuns | 2,856 0 0 | 42 tuns | 678 0 0 | 34½ tuns | 751 0 0 |
| " Humpback | Nil | 0 0 0 | 10½ tuns | 240 0 0 | 18 tuns | 525 0 0 |
| " Sperm | 26 tuns | 1,401 0 0 | 92½ tuns | 4,753 0 0 | 23½ tuns | 1,091 0 0 |
| Onions | 7 tons 15 cwt. | 85 0 0 | 1 ton | 10 0 0 | 27 tons 6 cwt. 2 qrs | 371 0 0 |
| Ore, Copper | 50 tons | 500 0 0 | 845 tons | 6,990 0 0 | 1550 tons | 14,887 0 0 |
| Pork, Salted | 79 casks | 408 0 0 | 83 casks | 230 0 0 | 91 casks | 221 0 0 |
| Potatoes | 18 tons | 121 0 0 | 43½ tons | 105 0 0 | 946½ tons | 5,780 0 0 |
| Shingles | 200,000 | 100 0 0 | 111,900 | 59 0 0 | 119,900 | 62 0 0 |
| Spars and Rickers | 218 | 1,655 0 0 | 276 | 1,570 0 0 | 321 | 785 0 0 |
| Timber, Sawn | 1,269,050 feet | 5,955 0 0 | 780,715 feet | 4,022 0 0 | 2,274,352 feet | 12,399 0 0 |
| Whalebone | 6 tons | 520 0 0 | 2,352 lbs. | 80 0 0 | 580 lbs. | 35 0 0 |
| Wool | 11,954 lbs. | 421 0 0 | 15,225 lbs. | 576 0 0 | 6,820 lbs. | 223 0 0 |
| Miscellaneous | Nil | 0 0 0 | - | 1,271 0 0 | - | 1,503 0 0 |
| --------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- |
| Total | £15,525 0 0 | £27,092 0 0 | £45,765 0 0 |
The Value of Exports of all Kinds from the Province in 1848, was ... £21,339 0 0
The Value of Exports of all Kinds from the Province in 1849, was ... £54,668 0 0
The Value of Exports of all Kinds from the Province in 1850, was ... £68,023 12 10
H. M. Customs, Auckland,
12th March, 1851.
W. Young,
Collector.
New Ulster Gazette 1851, No 7
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🏭 Principal Exports from Auckland, 1848-1850
🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry17 March 1851
Exports, Trade, Auckland, Statistics, Commodities
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
- W. Young, Collector