FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2534, 25 January 1923, Page 3

FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE FOR LAST YEAR,

The following is a statement of receipts and expenditure of the Foxton Harbour Board for the year ending December 31, 1922, which will be included in the balance-sheet to be presented to the Board at its annual meeting on the 29th hist. The receipts show a marked increase over the few previous years when practically little or no shipping entered.—

General Account.—Receipts, balance as at 31/12/21, £1,515 19/9; pilotage, £173 11/6; river lighting, £55, inwards wharfage, £944 15/6, less New Zealand Railways com. & handling, £529 6/3—£415 9/3; outward wharfages, £212 8/9, less Levin and Co. com. £4 9/—£2o7 19/9;' ships dues, £33 17/10; rents—Te Wharangi £268 12/-; sanatorium, £33 19/4; Round Bush, £l6l, flaxmill sites, £l4; wharves and sheds, £54; road contributions, £7B 13/-. Miscellaneous refund (wages over paid) £1; consent fee, £l2 12/-, ’phone, £6 10/ —£19 2/-; office rent £6 10/-; coal taken by Levin and Co. £6; refund dredge a./c, £4 12/-; compensation (re Round Bush) £440 —£477 4/-; refund from loan a/c, 1921,. £69 16/3—£3559 2/8. Expenditure: Harbourmaster and assistants, £348 13/1, kerosene, benzine and motor spirits, £lll 11/7; maintenance and repairs, pilot’s department, £42 1/3; dredge, £4B 15/3, launch, £62 2/9, £llO 18/-; jetty, £8 9/3—£161 8/6; office expenses, ’phone removal, £1 9/6, ’phone rent, £3, £4 9/6; pilot ’phone £l6 12/6, office rent, £2B, £44 12/6; stationery, £4 15/-, sundries 11/10, £5 6/11; office chairs, table and shelves, £9 17/-; imprest a/c £10; Harbour Association sub. £2 3/-; audit fee £3 12/-; secretary salary, £5, £8 12/-; printing and advertising, £4 3/-; . cheque book £2, hr. fee 10/-, £2 10/-; exchange, 25/-, interest, £7 9/6, £8 14/6 —£100 8/5; dredging, etc., £929 18/7. Miscellaneous: Posts and survey pegs, £ls; tanks £8 13/-, tree planting, £6O, £6B 13/-; rates £2 16/3, siding £25, £27 16/3; engine certificate, £2, freight, 4/3, £2 4/3; buoys £3 8/-, tracing wharf, £1 1/-, £4 9/-; legal expenses £ls 7/7. Insurance premiums dredge, £ls; accident, £l3 11/3, wharf, £2l 13/4, £35 4/7; shed and office, £5 6/10; Beach Road, etc., £122 4/-; compensation money at fixed deposit, £440—£751 4/11. Loan a/c: Interest, £584 10/9, sinking fund £SO, £634 16/9; temporary advance from general a/c, £59 2/9, balance as at 31/12/22, £3BO 15/1. R/ contributions, £Bl 3/-, £461 18/1 — £3559 2/8.

TIIE PORT’S SHIPPING IN- THE SEVENTIES. '

We reproduce the following account and shipping returns of the local port sor the years 1877-8-9,. from the file of the Herald of January 6, 1880 : “MANAWATU SHIPPING TRADE.

“Mr Burgess, Collector of Customs, has kindly handed us a relurn showing various facts of interest, regarding the trade at the port of Foxton. From it our readers will see' that a steady improvement has taken place in the trade, more especially in the class of vessels arriving here. The following are the figures: — Year No. of Vessels. Tonnage. 1877 160 9,030 1878 130 9167 1879 . 167 13202 “Though the progress indicated is not very great, the tonnage show*, an improvement last year of over 4,000 tons, which is a gratifying proof of the expansion of the local Irade. It is absolutely certain that during the year upon which we have •just entered, a great improvement will take place in the export timber Irade. Either that or a terrible depression is staring the sawmillers of the district in the face, for local consumption cannot possibly keep twenty mills going in the district. Should a greater trade spring up with the South than that which at present exists, we may reasonably expect 1880 to witness a great improvement in the shipping trade of this port.”