The Wellington Harbour Board Report.

Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1892, Page 3

The Wellington Harbour Board Report.

« In his annual report, Mr Ferguson, 'Secretary of the Harbour Board, states that the number of bales of wool received into the Board's sheds from the Railways continue to in crease, having been 28,786 last year, as compared wifch 24,813 and 21,970 in fche previous two years ; but the hemp received was only 21,285 bales, as compared with 27,923 and 22,---906 bales respectively. The shipments of wool and hemp from Wellington in 1891 and 1890 were .as follows : —

The quantity of wool shipped would probably have shown a greater increase had it not been for the in creasing direct shipments by steamer and sailing ships at the outlying ports. The number of. bales of wool and hemp stored Jby, the Board amounted to 73,698?ba1e5, as against • 84,856 and 81,998 tales in 1890 and 1889 respectively, the percentage of bales stored to the total shipped being about 63 per cent, as compared /with 65 per cent, and 59 per cent, in / the previous years, whilst the tran- / shipment of general goods increased during the year. The tonnage of inward goods foreign and colonial and coastwise, grew considerably as compared with the preceding years. The total number of tons handled inwards and transhipped during the year amounted to 144,125 tons, as compared with 136,594 and 128,838 tons .in the two preceding years. The total of the outward goods amounted to 41,161 tons, as compared with 88,446 and 85,736 tons for 1890 and 1889 Considering the lorge number of cirgo steamers trading to the colony and calling at so mariy ports, carrying goods which used previously to be transhipped at Wellington, Mr Ferguson think* it is t a matter for congratulation that the transhipments at Wellington have not shown a decrease, instead of remaining stationary. In' the decennial period 1881-1891, the inward, and transhipment goods have increased about 2-J times — from 64,---821 to 144,125 tons. The outward goods have nearly doubled in the decade— from 20,792 tons to 41,161 tons, whilst the output of wool and hemp has more than trebled —from 88,882 to 117,189 bales. As the Board did not become possessed of the Queen's Wharf until October, 1881, the yearlßß2 was thefirst one when they had complete control of the trade of the port, and it will therefore not be until the expiration of the current year that a true decennial comparison of the progress of the port can be made.— Pots.

1891 1890 Wool „, 71,297 ... '65,698 Hemp „. 45,842 ... 63,616 Total ... 117,139 129,809