WELLINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - New Zealand manufacturing sales volumes rose 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter compared with a 3.3 percent rise in the third, data from Statistics New Zealand showed on Tuesday.
Volumes for dairy and meat products, the country's biggest export earners, rose 2.5 percent versus a 6.0 percent rise in the third quarter.
"Petroleum and coal product manufacturing, which can have large movements from quarter to quarter, led the increases in December," business indicators senior manager Neil Kelly said. "Meat and dairy manufacturing sales was also up following a large increase in the previous quarter."
Kelly said that results were "mixed" across the rest of manufacturing, with more than half the remaining industries seeing sales decreases in the December 2015 quarter.
The full data is available at http://www.stats.govt.nz/
