WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD.
ANNUAL REPORT. By Telegraph —Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 18. The annual report of the Harbour :Board submitted to the annual meeting, to-day, reviews the year's work. The shipments of wool skins, hemp .and tow, amounted to 218,094 bale 3, which constitute a record. The wool was 19,127 bales better Hian in 1907, •but hemp decreased by 10 bales. Nine •per cent, of the exports were generai rgoods, and amounted to 1u0,135 tons, "the largest quantity " ye,t recorded. The shipping tonnage had doubled in •the past 10 years. One paragraph in the report states that taking tne accommodation and •despatch provided, and the amount of .work done lor ths charges levied, Wellington is still the cheapest port in the Dominion.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19090119.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3095, 19 January 1909, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
122WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3095, 19 January 1909, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in