GREYMOUTH HARBOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8148, 4 July 1906, Page 3

GREYMOUTH HARBOR.

m nxss Assoc.ATio*. Gsiraorrn, July 3. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, details of the scheme for improving shipping facilities was submitted by Mr Ronayne, general manager for railways. The proposed alterations mean an expending of] £40,000, of which £7OOO will be chargeable to revenue, the|remainder to.loan account. The Board referred Mr Bonayne's scheme to their engineer, with instructions to report on it at next meeting. Bone statistics prepared by the Board's secretary show the rapid development of the port. In 1885 the export of coal was 98,407 tons; last year it was 1 111,706 tons, and for period 1885— 1905, the total exported was 3,257,862 | tons, The timber export commenced i m 1888, and from that year to 1905 the total quantity shipped was ' 193,887,126 super feet. Shipments in < 1892 totalled 415,820 super feet; in ; 1906 they were 29,636,617 feet. The , total revenue of the Board since it was established in 1884 has been £357,900, and the expenditure £583,606, of ' whkh £406,765 was on harbor works, i and £176,841 in interest; and sinking , fond. The tonnage of vessels visiting the port increased from 103,913 tons i» 1884 to 273,196 in 1905, and the ' total since the Board was established ' tons. 1 T— **"—***^—? i