TARANAKI’S TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1921, Page 4

TARANAKI’S TRADE

MARKED EXPANSION SHOW FIGURES FOR THIS YEAR INCREASE IN OVERSEAS VESSELS, Since the first Home lindr berthed at New Plymouth in 1917 the total number coining to the port to date is 38, and an example of the expansion of the trade is afforded by the fact that the numbei of liners coming here during the siz months of this year (twelve) equals th<J total for the whole of last year. The l details are:— 1917 ••• «• •• .JgM fi 1918 1919 7 1920 12 1921 (six months) 12 38 The liners which have berthed here since the beginning of the year are th« Whangaratta, "West Mahwah, Kumara, Port Pine, Port Hacking, City of Wlm Chester, Australcrag, Waimate, Tregan then, Waitomo, Suffolk and Peshawur\ in addition to these steamers the largd auxiliary schooner La Merced came intq port drawing 24 feet 3in. The growth of the trade of the port! during the years from 191? to to-day is shown in the following figures (those foi 1921 being for six months only):

1921 107 56,292 17,236 73,528 • The returns in connection with th® . port for the six months ending on« Thursday show a substantial increase in’ the imports and exports compared with' the corresponding six-monthly period of the previous year. For instance there is an increase of 18,519 tons in the imports handled and 6127 tons in exports./ It is very satisfactory to note that there has also been a big increase in the tonnage of vessels trading at the port, in* asmuch as while there was only an in-, crease of one in the total number th< gross tonnage increased from 122,131} tons to 179,080 tons. The figures are as follows: In-

Year. Vessels. Imports. Exports. Total Tons. Tons. 1917 272 78,390 17,130 18,037 95,521* 1918 2571 73,019 91,05® 1019 208 71,972 32,347 104,3191 1920 238 95,712 28,242 123,954

1920. 1921 crease. No. of vessels 100 107 1' Gross tonnage 122,136 179,080 56,944 Net tonnage 02,849 102,617 39,768 Imports (tons) 37,773 56,292 18A1S Exports (tons) 11,100 17,236 6,127 Total trade (tons) .... 48,882 73,528 24,646 The increase n the total trade is just over fifty per cent.