AUCKLAND HARBOR BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 267, 9 April 1914, Page 8

AUCKLAND HARBOR BOARD.

CONTINUED EXPANSION OF THE PORT. By lelegTjph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The financial position of the Auckland Harbor Board was reviewed by the chairman, Mr. J. H. Gunson, during the annual meeting yesterday afternoon. The linanelitl records of the Board, said the chairman, revealed a steady and constantly improved position, uninterrupted progress having been recorded since the Board's inception in 1871. Its revenue, he said, had been of a continuously expanding nature, and he quoted the following figures, showing the gross revenue in the various years:—lß7l, £0522; ISBO, £33,211; 1890, £47,837; 1900, £52,598; 1910, £1*2,053; 1913, £160,295. During the past year the levenue was shown as £100,29*5 9s 10d, which left a credit balance over expenditure of £2022 0s 7d, and was substantially the same as during 1912, but there was an actual loss of £5070 in revenue arising from tue strike in October and November last, which ior the time seriously dislocated the trade of the wirt of Auckland. There was, however, no prospect of n recurrence of such a state of allairs, ajid the loss had been more than recovered during- the first three iKonths of this year.