WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD.
Press Association. Wellington,' January 21. The , annual report of the Wellington Harbour Board shows that the revenue increased last year from £126,186 to £142,198. Payments for the works (contracts) amounting to £44,455 were made during the year, and there remains an estimated liability accruing in respect to contracts in hand of £84,749. Shipments of wool and skins, increased by 11,723 bales, hemp by 6,463 bales. Exports of general goods passing over the wharves amounted to 88,013 tons, being an increase of 8,108. The export of j frozen meat amounted to 36,099 tons. The increase of 1044 tonnage of goods from British and foreign ports was 138,366 tons compared with 126,846 tons for the previous year. The general transhipment noreased from to 97,002 tons. The number of vessels arriving during the past twelve months increased by 410 to 3346, and in tonnage by 182,713 to 2,461,437 tons.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 4
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149WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 4
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