NEW ZEALAND RETAIL SALES SLOW IN JANUARY

  Seasonally adjusted retail sales
  rose by 0.1 pct in January, compared with increases of 5.7 pct
  in December and 1.0 pct a year earlier, the Statistics
  Department said.
      It said in a statement actual retail sales fell to 1.87
  billion N.Z. Dlrs in January against 2.42 billion a month
  earlier and compared with 1.78 billion in January 1986.
      Year-on-year retail sales rose 5.3 pct compared with a 9.6
  pct increase in the year-earlier period.
  

