THE HARBOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 7

THE HARBOR.

CHAIRMAN'S ANNUAL REPORT, Gentlemen In placing before you the account of the board for the year 101 li, I regret to report a slight decrease in the trade of the port, the total quantity of cargo handled being i)0,10S tons, against IK. 107 tons in 1015. a decrease of lfl'.tO tons. The imports fell by I:JSp tons, anil the exports filO tons The latter was caused entirely by the non-shipment <i» the dairy produce 'owing to the shortage of steamers, otherwise there would have been a fairly substantial increase. The revenue for the year was £11.50") ISs <!d, against £ll, BO" us 3d in 1013, a decrease of £lOl (is lid. The working account shows i» licit profit of £7O-IS 10s !)d, against £«">>". I")', 7d. an increase of £102.'! Is M, which must be considered very satisfactory. Tile total ordinal'," revenue received in the general account by the. Board for the past Hi years is as follows:

LOAiN ACCOUNT. During the year the balance of the loan, amounting to £23,000, was raised at par at 5 per cent., which considering the state, of the money market, was on very favorable terms. As mentioned in my' last report, the credit for raising this loan was due to the board's treasurer, Mr. Newton King. , ■ The balance of the account at Decembe 31, 1010, was £19,002 Vn lfld, all of which is on fixed deposit at the board's bankers.

BREAKWATER PROTECTION'. Once again I have to report that this work has stood splendidly, and only in one or two place; lias the work required to be made up Seven concrete blocks, from sleek have been used during the year, and the cost has been £2O 7a. DREDGE "THOMAS KING/ This vessel has been at work during the ivhnie year, f r .!htr pumping, or assisting iho •'Parilut'.:" in liie removal' of loul'Jers. ■ She has removed 109;7fi0 tens of spoil at a working cost.of £l7li 17- equal to an average, cost-of y 75.3 per ton. Particulars of sand removed from the harbor during the past sixteen years by the Thomas King:-

DRLDGE "PARITUTU." During the year this vessel has. been engaged in the fairway and swinging basin, most of the time with her buckets. Further improvement has been made, in the depths of water ,and there is now no difficulty in berthing the ocean liners. Frozen meat will, be available for shipment at an early date, as the new meat freezing works at Smart Rood are practically completed, and slaughtering commenced on January 14. The spoil removed during the year by this vessel was '210.4110 tons, at a total cos. of £7582 10s Id (which'amount includes the oust of the annual overhaul at Wellington), giving an average cost, of 7.98 d per top. During the past six years this vessel has removed, in deepening the harbor, a total quantity of 1,400,2.">0 tons of spoil. Particulars of dredging by the Paritutu for the past six years: Cost ' ; i Total I per Year. Tons. "'"■ Cost. " Ton. £ =. d. d. 1911 155,250 '£5,748 IS 1 8.87 d .1012 279.-200 £0,911'17 7 6.94 d 1913 2567300 £8,128 2 S 7.60 d 1914 2A3.-200 f 10.33-1 17 9 8.40 d 1915 239,600 £8,142 13 5 8.11 c! 1016 240,400 £7,582 10 1 7.9*1 •WHARF The expenditure during the year on the- above has been £520 li. sdj.aU of it, with the exception of a mooring dolphin for ocean liners,liad been on general, repair work. BUILDINGS, PLANT ANE MACHINERY. During the year £770 13s 5d has been, expended under this heading, included in which is a new shed on the wharf, 58ft x 25ft, costing about £3OO, for the storage of hawsers and an office for the harbormaster. Sales of plant and material during the year amounted to £152 0s Id. ENDOWMENTS.

During the year 'fourteen sections at (lie Kiuvau Pa Reserve have been let. and there are now only throe remaining to be disposed of in this block. Ho far, no further sections in Mt. Eliot Reserve have been let. During the year the board leased :2b acres of the reserve near Paritntu to the New Zealand Iron Ore Smutting and Manufacturing Company, who are now busy erecting buildings and plant on the . site' for the purpose of smelting the iron- . sand which lies on the board's foreshore. ; This industry will be of immense import- • ance to the board and the whole of New Zealand, and I feel sure every member of the board wil) wish the qompany every success in its undertaking. The- coir- ■ pany expects to., start ' its operations ' about the end'of February, ' -" -' f.

WHARFAGE AND DUES. The following is a table of the above during the past fifteen years:—

SHIPPING. Returns for the past thirteen years are as follow:

Being a decrease of 20 vessels, and of in tonnage, and a decrease of 1909' tons in imports and exports. LAND REVENUE. I have great'pleasure in reporting a furthpr increase in the receipts for land revenue during the year, the figures being £7032 17s 4d for 1910, against £O22S 17? Sd in 1913, the increase being £1423 19s Sd. This is the largest amount received in one year since IS9O. ' . .LAND REVENUE. Table of land revenue for the past sixteen years:— LAND REVENUE.

SINKING FUND, 1909 LOAN. The balance in this account" at December 31, 1910. was £24,050 4s 7d, of which £23,5(10 was on mortgage, and the balance at the Board's bankers. MEMBERS. No election has taken place during tb<i past year, but the whole Board goes out of office, in April next, and the elections will take place on the last Wednesday - that month. l Statement showing vessels, draught, tonnage,, etc., which entered and left the- port, during the year ending December 31, 1910: STEAMERS.

SAILING VESSEL. Holmes, C. S.._. 4GO 37G 1 lfi 6 ,\ " J. B. -SONNBTT, , Chairmas.

Amount. Year. ? £ s. A. 1901 v.... 7,500 13 6 1903 » ,..:... 8,503 9 11' 1903 ,. '■ 10.225 1 111 • 190* ,. , 1.0,835 IS » 1905 , ,,(..., 10,760 11 5 1900 13,098 IS C 1907 ■ ., 14.717 3 4 190S ....... ]5,4(56 10 2 1909 10,470 4 7 , ]910 ...... 12,677 3 2 , 1911 10.S23 12 3 • 1912 -. 11,503 0 i 1913 1-2.855 2 2 1914 .... , 13,240 10 5 1915 1,1,007 5 8 1910 H.flOj 18 4

Cost Total per Year. To&t. Cos*. ■£ i. i. Ton. <1. 1901 9-,,:sso ■1,458 io 8 3.52 1902 103,320 2,125 19 3 4.93 1003 153,190 1,587 12 10 . 2.48 1004 200,088 2,117 11 0 2.54 1905 203,042 2,305 19 7 . 3.30 1908 01,920 1.612 18 4, 4.21 1907 m,90o N 1,300 10 11 3.00 1308 ■ 75.720 1,924 8 11 6.09 1909 87,1340 1.542 11 10 4.10 1910 04,839 1,704 18 0 4.40 1911 11S,?^) 1,389 13 2 2.82 1912 82,100 1,050 t 0 4.82 1913 ■117.S40 ,1.587 3 5 3 23 1914 •11,880 2,702 11 11 •7i07 1915 125,040 , 1,028 8 3 3.12 li'10 109 760 1,"U 17 0 3.75

1902 £4239 £255 1 £560 JS48 . 1 £209 £7.610 1903 4893 2997 572 53 246 8,761 1904 5200 3242 672 53 277 9.441 1905 5019 3551 684 54 295 9.603 1906 5302 5137 732 53 335 11,859 1907 6061- 6338 759 48 407 13,613 1908 5971 6658 768 62 337 13,796 1909 5927 2960 595 63 355 i 9,900 1910 s 7504 3155 656 132 475 j 11,922 1911* 6576 3008 593 144 . 405 | 10,726 1912* 1 6953 2991 604 154 741 .11,446 1913* 1 7608 3198 717 233 899 12,655 1914§ SI 93 3234 690 296 827 13.240 1915" 7467 2693 535 239 733 11,667 1916 1 7059 3010 514 332 591 11,506

1™, ! ] Exports 1 Other •Total • Total Exports Sear Vessels Tonnage Imports Butter & Cheese Exports Exports and-Imports Tons Tons Tons Tons Tons 1904 47G 228,-743 50,970 6,890 5,050 11,940 62.910 1905 500 245,473 49,044 e.953 6 511 13,464 62,508 1906 546 264,757 1 50.471 7,624 7,086 14,710 65,181. 1907 553 * 281,528 57,246 8,615 6.395 15,010 72,256 1908 535 273,462 63,294 8,414 7,526 15,910 79,234 1909 4-17 213,124 " 61,926 8,360 5.124 13,484 75,410 1910 3S9 186,830 72,567 9„240 5,042 14,282 86,849 1911 367 i72,5i7 71,675 7.737 7,773 15,510 87,185 1912 376 1S0,4S6 78,260 9,423 4 257 13.680 91,940 1913 332 183,745 77,040 9.145 C.282 15,427 92,-467 1914 304 166,816 90,783 12,552 4,935 17,487 108,270 1915 27S 145,682 75,277 11,155 5,675 3 6,830 92,107 1916 252 1x5.845 73 897 12,732 3,479 16,211 90.108

Amount, Year. ' : ' £ s. a. 3901 prr-,.-, ..vt.-..,, fl,454 4 5 1902 c... , 3;417 17 7 1903 ,, .,-...-. 3,506 0 It ........ 3,209 14 11; 1905 ,...-.., , 2,912 17 11 1906 .■.- , 3,799 7 0 1907 , , 3,924 9 2 -v .1908 . 3,152 10 11' 1909 2,(109 2 3 1910 L . ,....,., 4,881 10 4 1911 „ , ........ 4,082 17 10 . il912 , , 3,122 14 0 1913 r - , ....■,..-., 4,007 13 '4 inu r - .nr.-,« 4,(580 17 3 1915 ..-,...., ,.-....„ 0,228 17 8 191(5 • "■ - ■ 7 fill U 4 This shows an increase of £.142,'! IDs 5 for the vear 1910.

-Name. Cross Nett rrips DrV ht Kaituun, . • Ton. .. 11)77 Ton. 1240 f *) 0 \Vaipori >. ,.. lillil 1220 1 ' is' c N«aknta . ... 17711 043 1 17 0 Kal.apo .. 1521 040 •2 17 0 Kainona ... 1 <l2.-> 003 1 17 0 Corinna .. 1271 S12 37 ].' 0 Kitlawa ... 12-17 708 1 15 .) Ma-pourika ,.. 120.1 718 1 U 0 Poherua .. 117. - ) 710 1 lv fi Ng.ttoro .. 1137 5sr 5 15 0 .. 1122 702. 4 15 0 Xgaliero • . .. 10W) 550 11 15 0 Rarawa, .. 1072 451 100 13 (! iKariurm .. 034 453 4 11 0 Kowhai ., 7D2 404 11 14 0 Rosamond .. 721 402 7 13 0 Potone .... .. 70S 3S8 1 14 0 PiO.sulus .. 58.5 ,227 7 12 li Millennia .. 570 28? 1 10 0 Waiinea .. 454 200 4 10 0 1'iltiki >.. .. 42!) 157 1 10. 0 Awaliou .. ,407 J 51' :; 11 0 Wallsend . .. 400 204 10 0 .. 385 144 4 10 (1 Alexander ... 377 185 ■5 1C 0 Storm .. 372 ISfi 2 11 0 Arapawa .. .. 201 128 3 10 0 .. 207 108 10 10 0 .. 250 100 1 S (1, Taiimi „■..- .'. 107 GO !) 8 g' Wcka -.-.. ... 102 53 3 7 0