TRADE OF THE PORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2317, 26 November 1914, Page 8

TRADE OF THE PORT

STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR SOME NOTABLE RECORDS At last evening's meeting of the Harbour Board a most interesting summary of statistics for tho year ended September 30 was presented to members in committee, and at the conclusion of tho meeting were handed to the Press. For the 'sake of comparison three' years' figures are given under each hoading. ; It will bo seen in. the tables below that tho. year just ended has on the whole been a very satisfactory one. A rather substantial decrease in tho quantity of inward cargo from British and foreign ports is accounted for by tho strike of last year and by. the influence of war conditions since the beginning of August. The deorease in the quantity of inward colonial and coastal goods and transhipments is negligible. A new record has been established during the year- in the tonnage of general goods shipped outwards to British and foreign ports, and fresh records have been established in the quantity of cheese and frozen meat ehipped away .from the port. On, the other hand butter has decreased, due mainly to the fact that Auckland supplies nave been shipped direct from the northern • port. The following are the detailed figures, with a comparison with those of the previous year:— , ; GENERAL GOODS..' 1913-11. 1912-13. Tods. Tons. Inwards, British end , foreign ...-. 166,021 189,590 Inwards, colonial and coastal 176,522 176,618 Transhipments 160,046 168,832 . ' . .■■'',■ 502,589 . 535,040 Tons. Tons. Outwards, British and ; foreign (record) 71,203 ' 52,660 Outwards, colonial and coastal ....... 118,403 125,229 . . 189,606 177,889 WOOL AND HEMP.- ' . x I Bales, Bale 3.' Wool ...,.;..., 162,875 165,955 Hemp : 98,681 135,095 . . ' ' 261,556 301,050 BUTTER, CHEESE, AND MEAT. : ■-■•'■••. Tons. Tons. Butter .. 11,414 16,488 Cheese (record) ........;... 37,776 35,851 Frozen meat (record) ... 38,358 • 32,078' 87,548 84,417 • : COAL. "■•■•. ■■'.■■■; ' Tons. Tons. Passing over wharves \ and paying wharfage 166,654 168,758 Passing over wharves for Government use and exempt from ■ wharfage 46,713 66,835 Transhipped overside .. ■ vessel to vessel at wharves (record) 301,379 292,710 Transhipped, overside ,- vessel to vessel in . , stream 31,734 21,059 ■ ' '.-.'. 546,80 548,862 - TIMBER. . Inwards, super feet'• 12,793,083 13,167,799 Outwards, super feet 1,985,858 1,350,428 ..'.'- ' . 14,688,941 14,518,227 NUMBER AND TONNAGE 01? ■ VESSELS. ■• . . .: .' . ■■' : '. Steamers. ■ ' . No. Tonnage. 1913-14 3,197 > ■ 3,047,879 1912-13 3,553 3,134,740 .. . . Sailers, w> ' . . ' No. . Tonnage. J913-14 ' 48 ' ■ 11,194 1912-13 67 ' l\,sn ■ Appended to the report is an interesting return giving tho average" net. register tonnage of the vessels trading to the port over.a period of thirty, years. In 1883-4 the average tonnage of vessels using the port was 287 tons, ten years later it was , 436 tons, and .during the last year it was 942 tons, which figures show the ever-increasing size of vessels that visit Wellington. '

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