DEEP SEA HARBOUR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 9

DEEP SEA HARBOUR

FOR THE GOLD COAST.

The new Governor of Accra, Sir Ransford Slater, formerly Governor of Sierra Leone, has invited J. H. Thomas, late Colonial Secretary under the Labour Government, to open their first deep sea harbour. Takoradi, on March 15, next year. It has already been published in London thht Mr. Thomas had been invited to be present as a guest, but this further development is a compliment to the great assistance ho gave to s»r Gorden Guggisberg in pushing on this matter.

'] bough Gold Coast imports last year were a record, totalling £lO,286,000. the monthly figtfrvs'fbr 1926 are larger than those of the same months last year, and it appears as if for 1927 there will be still further increases.

Last year’s record exports of £12,105.000 are very encouraging and point to the fact that the harbour at Takoradi is very badly wanted. To handle £23,000,000 of increasing trade bv surf boats from an open roadstead is certainly an out-of-date method to-day. America is a very good customer to the colony, and last year took over 65,000 tong of produce, valued at £2.581.000. Cocoa, mahogany, hides and skins, and manganese were the chief items going to the United States. Her own exports to the Gold Coast are also steadily increasing, and are far larger than the official figures show ns much business passes through the New York houses of the big British companies.