WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 387, 11 April 1902, Page 3

WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, iast night. The annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce states that the exports from tne colony for 1900-1901' amounted in value to £12,754,021, of which Wellington’s share was £1,942,000. The report says that the actual volume of exports- that leave the port of Wellington is far larger than the amount placed to the credit of the port in the official records, as the bulk of the produce exported from New Plymouth, Waitara, Patea, Wanganui, Wairau, Picton, and Nelson is finally shipped from Wellington wharves. If the value of these be added to the amount credited to Wellington, the result is as follows : Wellington, £1,942,003 Cook Strait ports, £1,052,784 ; the total £2,994,487. Possibly not quite the whole of the exports of these Cook Strait ports is despatched from Wellington, but it is to be remembered that a good proportion of the exports from West Coast ports of the South Island, which totalled £401,977 in 1900-1, are also shipped from this port.The North Island Trunk railway line has a word of comment in the report of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce. The Council is assured on the best authority that during the recent suspension of public works the force of men at work on the viaduct was maintained at a higher strength than could be employed. While regretting the general suspension of public works shortly after the rising of the last Parliament, as tending to retard settlement, the Council is given to understand that instructions have already he given that an increased number of hands should be employed on the North Trunk line beyond Makohine, and that the work will now he pushed Oil.