NEW PLYMOUTH TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 10

NEW PLYMOUTH TR ADE

HARBOUR BOARD'S REPORT FAIR INCREASE THIS YEAR From Our Otcn r orrespondent NEW PLYMOUTH, Today Fair increase's over last year I shown in the annual returns of trT* | of the port of New Plymouth 22 ; sented to the Harbour Board Je ’' ! terday. The chairman, Mr. C G E. ' i rin S er - in discussing the returns f^. the year ended September 30. said tv' j total trade had increased from 195 -.2 tons last year to 207,959 tons. U was gratifying fo see that whip there had been a decline in tonnae. of meat exported, this had been mo-, than compensated for by increases In butter, from 5.546 tons to 7.419 to and cheese, from 12.954 tons to lsjT tons. Thero had been an almost ph|L nominal increase in imports " , manures, of almost 16,000 tons. The revenue had shown a satisfaj tory increase of £7,000 in lg-g n 0 1 ever, the harbour improvement had been levied for only eight mom;-',' I so that the actual increase 7 ' tween £2.500 and £3,000. -V no tab’l feature was the development of o ve seas trade. The coastal trade had tor, back from 91.000 to 56.000 ton. vh" ! intercolonial trade had also shown "I I decrease of over 1.000 tons, i The Increase In direct shipments xv i from 97.587 tons to 117.708 tons, ! in the number of overseas vessels from 65 to .3, which indicated that the no-', j was becoming more and more a direct