PAID OUT BY THE MONGOLIA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 985, 28 November 1910, Page 6

PAID OUT BY THE MONGOLIA.

■AUCKLAND £1000 RICHER, Approximately £1000 in. hard cash' or its equivalent was left in Auckland (says tbo "Herald") on account of the visit of the Mongolia, and each monthly, visit of vessels of tie line will benefit tho public coffers to tho same exent or thereabouts. It is no light matter to feed tho crew and passengers of a big steamer for several days, and it costs a lot of money to tie up a big steamer to the Harbour Board's wharves, winks tho necessity for taking in coal where it can bo got adds great-, ly to tho expenditure .it tho various ports of call. The expenditure incurred on behalf of the Mongolia was, roughly, as follows:—Goal, £400; stores (including meat, butter, groceries, vegetables, and all other items regularly consumed and perishable), £330"; ia'rbour and light dues, £2.50; handling cargo (including wages, tallying, stevedoring, etc.). £48; sundries. £10—a total o{ £1038. The.amounts shown do.not represent tho total, as.there- are various small items still. to be accounted for, blit they give,'nevertheless, a. fair idol of whr,t the visit of the big steamers mean to tho city.