WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 11 April 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

ANNUAL RISPOBT. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, April 10. The annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce states that tne exports from the colony for 1900-1901 amounted in value t-> £12,754,621, of of ,which Wellington's share was £1,942,003. Tbe report says the actual volume of exports that leave the i port of Wellington is for larger than • tbe amount pluced to the credit of the port in official record?, as the bulk , of the produce exported from New Plymouth, Waitara, Patea, Wanganui, t Wairau, Pieton, and Nelson is finally i shipped from the Wellington wharves, i If tlw v<<lua of these be added to tbe , nmount ei'tditid to Wellington the result is ts follows: Wellington £1,942,003, Cook Strait ports £1,052,484; total £2,994,487. Possibly not quite the wh )la of the exports <f 'Leso Conk Strait ports is . despatched fiorn Wellington, but it in co be remembered thnt a gcod proportion ef t v e exports from i the Wt st Coast ports of the ; South Island, wiiico totalled £401,977 , in 1900 01, »re aho sh'ppwl from thiti port. Tti» North I-laud Trunk Riilj f way line has a word of comment in the i report. The Council is assured on tin; : best authority that, during the recent ' suspiiiifion of pub'ii: works, the force i f i men at work on the Mokohir o I "Viaduct was maintained »t :he i highest streugth th<t could be ■ employed. While regretting the ' general suspension of publio work* . shortly after the rising of the lust Parliament, as tending to retard sat'lenient, the Cou' oil is given to undtr stand that instruc'ions hava already bsen given that an increased Dumber of hands'should be employed on th» line beyond Makohine, and that thework will now be pushed on,