HARBOUR WORKS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2442, 22 April 1915, Page 7

HARBOUR WORKS

RECENT YEARS* UNDER*

TAKINGS

BUSINESS OF TP PORT

Towards the conclusion of last evening s meeting of tho Wellington Harbour Board, Mr. R. Fletcher, who is retiring from the nhairmanship of the board, read some figures relative tp the work of the board over a period, of fivp years. Tjie figures, compare as undor, those fpr 190J 'being given in parentheses Revenue, £519,613 (£169,736), dnprease £49,877 ; balance of assets ovor liabilities, £548,559 (£343,472), inicrease £205,087; assets,. £1,407,248 .(£1,039,383), increase £367,860; liabilities, ' £858,684 (£095,910),' increase '£162,774; tonnage of snipping arrivals, 3,059,075 'registered tons (2,841,049 registered tons), inorease 218,024 registered tons; general cargo impoits, English and foreign, 166,021 tons (132,096 tons), increase 33,925 tons; general cargo imports, colonial and coastal, 176,522 tons (162,111 tons), increase 14,411 .tons; general iargo' transhipped, fans (116,034 tons), increase 44,018 tons; coal, inwards, 166,654 tons (144,397 tons) ,increase 22,257 tons; general cargo exports, English and foreign, •71,203 tons (44,884 tons), increase 26.819 tons; general cargo exports, colonial and coastal, 118,403 tons (105,773 tons), increase 12,630 tons; value of imports, £5;865,748 (£4,003,882), increase £i',861,866; value of exports, £6,948,749 (£3,642,871), increase £3,305,878: wool and hemp, 261,556 bales (218,561 bales), increase 42,995 bales. In a list, of spinoff the. more import* ant "works undertaken by the board since 1910, Mr. Fletcher mentioned:— Sea wall and culvert extension, Waterloo Quay (completed 1911), £36,845; Miramar wharf, £19)382 f sea wall and sarthivorks at Miramar, £26,506; J ib'ed, £23,997; asphalting floors, J shed, £2203 ; electric cranes, J shed, £2372: Wpolpress, £775; renewal of portion or Queen's" wharf and Jervois Quay (in hand), £,10,QQQ; removal qf piles, <3ppk site, iSiOQO;' culvert' extension, Waterlop Quay," £11,257; Waterloo Quay reclamation for Goyernmgnt Department? (approximately), £24,p0T; sea' wall, Te 'Art, £52l26taging"Jervois Quay, and additions to Street lyharf, ferry wharf,' No. 2, and additions to ferry wharf No. 1, £4584; election of Z ptpre, £9265: extepsion or Glasgow wharf a fid' pdtjitipns t<* T store, £17,434; road works at Miramar, £(J096; Waterloo Qusjy main sewer, '£2970; reconstruction qf, wool '£4987;. ferry wharf offices, £1035; additions to-1 shed, £1289; Pipitea wharf store, £11,727; Waterloo Quay breastr wp'rk (in hand), £10,725; electric cranes for No. 3 shed (part), £1700;'concretr' ing around piles, King's wharf (in hand), £3250. Dredging—l9lo, £11,976; 1911, £11,183; 1912, £10.386; 1913, £12,279;' find 1914, £11,624 Mr. 0. W. Jones said that the list lira's s u it' s a $6? recqrd, and it jfas also, a good record'that' a man should hold ithp chair of the board in the face of Strong opposition for as long as Mr. Fletcher had done. Mr. Fletcher had jfceen .an impartial chairman. Other members endorsed what Mr. 'Jones had said, and added that though thev had sometimes differed from Mr. •Fletcherill opinion, they had always found lum willing "to forget those' differences once the board meetings were lover.