HARBOUR STATISTICS
WORK AT WHANGAREI (From Our Oxen Correspondent) WHANGAREI, To-day. The chairman of the Whangarei Harbour Board, Mr. J. A. Finlayson, at the last meeting yesterday of the board before the election of new members, reviewed the year’s work. There was a decrease in the shipping tonnage entering the port of 4,294 tons, as compared with the previous year. The total number of vessels entering the port was 931, being 71 less than the number for the previous year. The inward cargo of 30,596 tons, however, showed an increase of 1,238 tons. The outward tonnage of 141,244 tons showed a small decrease. Nine acres of reclamation near Kioreroa, on the harbour flats, had been filled up to a permanent level by the Harbour Board’s suction dredge up to December last. Some 17 acres of reclaimed land at Pohe Island was now being experimented with by the Agricultural Department, with a view to finding out the best means of bringing such land into cultivation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 16
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