PORT OF WELLINGTON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 6

PORT OF WELLINGTON

A GOOD YEAR. EECOBD OF STATISTICS. A summary of statistics of the port for the year ended September 30 was presented to the Wellington Harbour Board last night. Following are details:— General Goods. _ . 1914-15. 1913-11 Passing over Whams. Tons. Tons. Inwards, British and T foreiga 160,288 160,021 Inwards, colonial and coastal 1M)431 176523 Transhipments .-. 168,310 160,046 „ Totals' 523,029 502,589 lotal increase over previous year—2o,44o tons or 4.6 per cent. Inwards, British and foreign—Decrease from previous year, 5773 tons or 3.4 per cent. Inwards, colonial and coastal-Increase over previous year, 17,909 tons or 10.1 per cent. " Transhipments-Increaso over previous year, 8264 tons or 5.1 per cent 1914-15. 1818-H. n i j „■!.., Tons - ToM - Outw-irds, British and foeign 70,719 71,203 Outwards, colonial and coas 'al •■■... • 119,653 118,403 "'.Totals 190,366 189,606 iotal—lncrease over previous year, 760 tons or 0.4 per cent. •Outwards, British and Foreign—Decrease from previous year, 490 tons or 0.6 per cent. . Outwards, colonial and coastal—lncrease from previous- year, 1250 tons or 1.06 per cent. • Wool and Hemp. ' 1914-15. 1913-14. _ ' , Bales. Bales. Wool (record) 181,293 162,875 Hemp 94,010 98,681 Totals 275,305 261,556 Total—lncrease over previous year, 13,749 bale* or 5.2 per cent. ," : Wool—lncrease over previous year, 18,420 bales or 11.3 per cent. Hemp—Decrease from previous year, 4671 ■ bales or 4.7 per cent.. Meat and Dairy Produce. (Total shipments from Wellington, including transhipments overside.) 1914-15. 1913-14. „ ~ Tons. Tons. Butter .„. .11,793 11,414 Cheese (record) 40,338 37,776 Frozen meat (record) 43,182 88,358 _ Total (record) *. 95,313 87,548 ToraWnerease over previous year, 7765 tons or 8.8 per cent. - Butter—lncrease over previous year-, 879 tons or 3.8 per cent. Cheese—lncrease over previous year, 2562 tons or 6.7 per cent. Frozen meat—lncrease over previous year, 4824 tons or 12.5 per cent. Coal. , 1914-15.1913-14. _ . ■ Tons. Tons. Passing over wharves and paying whaif age (record) 173,556 166,654 Passing over wharves 'for Government use, and exempt from 62,160 46,713 Transhipped overside from' vessel to vessel at : wharves (record) 329,035 301,379 Transhipped overside from ■ ■ ' vessel to tessel in' '.-'.- .stream 4,430 31,734 Total (record) ;.... 569,181 546,480 Total—lncrease over previous year, 22,701 tons or 4.1 per cent. Over wharves paying -wharfage—lncrease . over previous year, 6902 tons or 4.1 per -cent. Over wharves exempt from -wharfage—ln- >\, crease over previous year, 15,447 tons : '.'■' or,' 33iO>iper cent. r '»« ;•■:;• : T/S overside at wharves—lncrease over previous year, 27,656 tons or 9.1'; per cent. .' , ■■■■■■ T/S overside .in stream—Decrease from previous year, 27,304 tons or 86.0 per cent. Timber, ';. The" im-poTts of timber- -were 11,862,732 superficial feet, as compared' with 12,793,083 last year, and 13,167,799 for the preceding year. The exports were 937,162 feet, the figures for last year being 1,895,858, and- for the preceding year 1.350,428. There was a total decrease of/timberpassing over the wharves during.the year 'of 1,889,047- superficial feet, equal to 12.8' per cent., . . Shipping. . '-.-.,' The number and tonnage of vessels arriving have been as follow:— Steamers. No. Tonnage. ■ 1914-15 3406 •; 3,146,599 1913-14 3197 3,047,879 • ■ Sailers. 1914-15 36 6,462 1913-14 48 . 11,194 • Total. 1914-15 3442 3,153,071 1913-14 3245 3,059,073 The net inorease of tonnage for' the year .was 93,998 tons, or 8.07 per cent. No credit is taken in this compilation for tonnage of men-of-war, transports, hospital ships, yachts, and other non-trad-ing craft entering the port. The average net register tonnage of vessels entering the port has risen from 311 tons in 1884-5 to 916. tons in 1914-15. ' r '