PORT OF AUCKLAND
THE YEAR'S REVENUE & PROFIT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, April 8. The financial position of the Auckland Harbour Board was reviewed by the chairman (Mr. J. H. Gunson) during tho annual meeting of tho board yesterday afternoon. ■ ■ "Tho financial records of the board," said tho cliairman, "revoal a steady and constantly-improved position, uninterrupted progress being recorded since tho board's inception in 1871." Its •revenue, ho continued, had been of a consistently expanding nature, and Jio quoted tho following figures shoeing the gross revenue in various years:— 1871. £6522; 1880, £33,211; • 1890, £-17,837; 1900, £52,598; .1910, £122,053; 1912, £160,295. During the past year tho revenue- (£160,295 9s. lOd.) left a credit balance over expenditure of £2022 os. 7d., and was substantially the same as for 1912, but there was an actual loss of £5670 in revenue arising from tho strike in October and November last, which, for a time, seriously, dislocated th<> trado of (ho port of Auckland. Thero was, however, no prospect of a recurrence of such a state of affairs, and the loss had been more than recovered during the first three months of this year.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 8
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189PORT OF AUCKLAND Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 8
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