Napier Harbour Board.
JiY TELEGRAPH —PKESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, January 16. The Napier Harbour Board accounts for 1907 show a very large increase in all departments over 1906, which year had up to that time beaten all previous records. In 1907 the revenue was £33,135 3s lOd, or £7,645 14s 7d more than in 1906, an increase of over 30 per Jcent. Ihe shipping tonnage was 803,249, or 21,322 more tons than in 1906. The cargo imports were 105,399, and the exports 80,296, being 12,872, and 5,196 respectively ahead of 1906. Tbe breakwater has been extended by 124 feet, and the shipping has increased in tonnage by | 523 tons, and the cargo in and out by 8,404 tons. A contract has been let at £24,000 for increasing the size of the Glasgow wharf in ferro concrete, and in about eighteen months ocean liners will be able to get along side. The Chairman of the Boa-d (Mr J. Vigor Brown) has for several years stated that the revenue of the Board must expand as long as the policy of the Government was continued in cutting up large landed estates, and his opinion will be very fox*cibly borne out by the figures now to be placed before the Board.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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206Napier Harbour Board. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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