By NZPA
Wednesday 14th March 2007 |
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The figures were pulled down by a 6.3%, or $329 million, fall in meat and dairy product manufacturing.
Excluding the meat and dairy fall, the decrease would have been 0.6%.
The December quarter fall followed rises of 2% and 3.9% in the September and June quarters respectively, SNZ said.
The second-largest fall was in machinery and equipment manufacturing, which was down 5.3% ($96m), followed by a 9.7% ($66m) fall in basic metal manufacturing.
An increase of 12.5% ($72m) for the transport equipment manufacturing industry partly offset the decreases.
A 5.4% appreciation of the New Zealand dollar between the September and December quarters had coincided with the fall in manufacturing sales, SNZ said.
With the effects of price changes removed, the value of finished goods stocks at December 31 was down 4% from the same quarter of 2005 at $5.7 billion.
Removing the effect of price changes from the seasonally adjusted December quarter figures, manufacturing sales were down 2.1% ($310m) from the September quarter.
Meat and dairy product manufacturing was down 3.8% ($148m), and machinery and equipment manufacturing dropped 6% ($82m).
Transport equipment industry sales were up 15.2% ($72m).
The manufacturing sales trend had eased recently, following a period of increase since the June 2005 quarter, SNZ said.
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