WHARFAGE AND DUES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 296, 24 January 1910, Page 2

WHARFAGE AND DUES.

The following is a table of the ab'.'ve (luring the last lii'teeii years: i

The decrease for the yeai under this heading being £3& Hi. sin mm,. Four hundred and forty-seven vessels entered and left the port during the 'past year, their aggregate tonnage being 213.124. Returns for th" past fifteen years are as follow:

Being a decrease of S8 vessels, of 60,338 tons, and a decrease of 3824 tons in imports and exports. PLANT, BUILDINGS AND MACHINERY. The sum of £504 Ss 8d has been expended under this heading during the year and all buildings and machinery are in a very ,good state of repair. BaICS of plant and material for the year amountetl to" £2B 5s 4d. ENDOWMENTS. One application for unlet sections in the Board's reserves was received durkiothe year, but was declined. c The extension of time granted to the Public Trustee of the ironsand leases will expire on January 25. The Board being unable to make satisfactory arrangements for the floating of the new loan in the Dominion, decided to send the chairman and treasurer to London, where they succeeded in raising a loan of £275,000 at 101 gross and slightly over 98 net, at a rate of in teres? of 4 1 /, per cent. As the Board had anticipated raising the loan at 4 pe r cent, it became necessary to reduce the amount proposed to be borrowed from £300,000 to £275.000. The remaining £25,000, however, can he borrowed at any time the Board deems it prudent. RECLAMATION BILL. During the year the Board had prepared and presented to Parliament a Bill vesting in the Board certain lands t proposed to h e reclaimed at the root of ; the breakwater: The Bill was duly I passed by Parliament and the Board is now in the position to proceed with the reclamation when it is considered advisable. I- HARBOR RATE AND LAND I REVENUE. Once again 1. have to report a falling j oiT in the land the amount • received during ITTOO being only £2!)0!) | 2s 3d, as against £3152 10$ lid" in 1908. being a decrease of £243 8s Sd. The revenue under this heading in 190!) is the smallest ever received bv the Board. ' No ffarbor rate was struck durins: tlie year 1909. Table of land revenue for the past nineteen years: Amount.

This shows a decrease of £243 8s Sd for the year 1909. StTlvTNf; FUND 1879 LOAN. The total worth of this fund on May 1 last (the tlate of the maturing of the old loan) was £60,893 3s 2d— £54,450 being in New Plymouth Harbor Board ,boncTs and £11,443 3s 2d in cash. The

whole of this amount tra»<ffnv«l io The general aecouni of the Board towards ihe repayment of the loan. 1909 LOAN. The Board appointed M .1. Connett. N". King and 15. lock as the :irsl commissioners under the new hmi, and tliev have now in hand the sum of £1375, being tile first ha If-yea repayment. due on November 1,4 last, for which no investment ha- vet been found. MKMBEISS. During the year the Board 10--f by death Mr. •!. Ward, one of the Govern ment nominees, who had been a member for a great manv years. At the biennial election in Febrnarv last Mr. C. A. Wilkin.-on. of Eltlnni. was elected for ihe F.ltham ward. M'\ .7. McCluggasre was elected for Stratford w-'i'd. M v . W. T. V. ells, of Manilla, was eie-.-led for the new Waimat:- ward, created I>v the" re-arvangement of the boundaries of the district. Mc-ssrs Connett, King. Price, Ward. ITughes and Maxwell were re-elected unopposed.

Year Wharfage Bed iiage Warps Water, &c Port Charges Total 181)5 £2800 £3:0 €2c 7 £•10 £! :i L 3 5 19 1890 321 i 4 5< I 209 27 21 1 1 099 181)7 3:5 8 8 1 159 291 22 23 1 1,991 1S98 3821. 14. 1. 385 91 215 5,929 lfc99 3797 15 19 117 1 17 201 O.i '8 1 1900 3 91' 9 1 788 155 128 230 0,530 1901 3835 2 1 So 5"8 120 295 0.938 1902 4239 255 i, ot;o 48 2< 9 7.010 1903 -1893 •2997 572 53 2.10 8.701 190 I5200 3212 (572 53 277 9, 1 I 1. ! 905 501 9 - 3551 r.s i 5 1 290 9,0i;3 19i Hi 5302 5 13/" 732 53 1 1,859 19 D7 (inc. L 0338 759 8 41)7 l'.i.Ol:! 19(i8 5971 0058 70S G2 33 7 13,790 1909 5 9 a 7 291'.O 595 03 35% 9,9i'0

Exports Other Total Total Exports X ear Vessels Tonnage Imports Batter & (Jheese Exports Exports und Import s Tons Tons Tons Tons Tons 1897 4,10 90,(557 22.277 4,730 4,877 9,607 31,884 1898 4'iO 1( 7,916 24,296 5 615 6.710 12.325 36.621 1899 404 144,407 25.S94 7,1 "5 3,823 10,028 36.822 1900 415 152,776 28,726 . 7 733 3,949 11.682 40,4.i 18 1901 44 •> 177.221 33,611 8, 53 2,818 10,971 44,582 1902 454 193,020 41,675 5,798 3,747 9.545 5 1.220 J 903 482 189, S06 47,342 6 7i'5 4,408 11,1 13 58,455 1901 47C 203,323 50,970 6,890 5.O50 11,940 02.t' 10 1905 5M) 228,743 49,044 0 953 6 511 13,464 6 >.508 19c 6 546 i'45,473 £.0,4 7 L 7,624 7,r 80 14,710 65,18L 1907 553 261,757 57,2 16 8,6 1 5 6 3J5 15,(110 72,25(5 1908 535 281,528 63,294 8,414 7,526 15,910 70,254 1909 447 1 273,402 61,926 8,360 5.124 13.434 75,410

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