A Busy Port.
— "O - AfJOKLAND'S SHIPPING AND • - MAILS INCREASING". "• TP*B PBKSS- '4«SOOMTXOI«.'j -• AUCKLAND, December 27. During the four days from December "20th to 23rd inclusive, 6628 bags of ■■mails' find 1410 hampers were handled at the chief post office, as-compared' with 4926 bags and 1134 hampers during the same period last year. Stamp sales were £'4050 2s, as compared with £3647 12s 6d last year The quantity of shipping in port at present /a considered to be a record for . Auckland. There are fourteen .deep water steamers in the harbour', and the gross tonnage of the overseas steamers is upwards of 60,000 tens.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 December 1911, Page 3
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103A Busy Port. Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 December 1911, Page 3
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