OUTLOOK.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20924, 3 August 1933, Page 15

OUTLOOK.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

STATISTICS FOR JULY

-«, opinion that trading returns for nort during July appeared to in- "?* » a definite financial recovery was ressed in a report presented to the Harbour Board yesterday by W t Jjctetary ancl treasurer - Mr c - HCKh'airrnan, Mr W. G. Gallagher. »M«1 others present being: Messrs t Holland, M.F.. E. J. Howard, M.P., * T Armstrong. M.P., W. K. Melt ?'Tj Walter, J. Leslie, F. E. AW W* J Bowdcn. R. T. McMillan. WJS T.' Lester. **- riibborn reported that the total JSuS receipts tor the first 10 "♦hs of the board's year was "5«743 as compared with £69.059 for fflrresponding period of 1931-32. a »Sof only £Bl7. This taken iS the June return, seemed to sugi signs of a definite financial re- " .rv The following were the cargo dirties for July, the figures in parentfiSbeing for July, 1932:—Imports. 8m? tons (21.401;; exports, 23.181 tons U8. 451): total tonna S e > handled *sl harbourmaster. Captain J. F. /.iiford reported that during July fading vessels representing 174,533 ii;« net register entered the port. nSrfitf July. 1932 - 110 vessels repreSe 151,339 tons net register en*£a the port. A considerable shortJTrrf union labour occurred on July •fmd'2l, owing to the number of in port, and a large number of had to be employed. . 11 -The second report of the special Zutep set up to administer the JS grant of £SOO to outside disKKfor unemployment relief stated ♦hnt £450 had been allocated up to the 'fit meeting. The £SOO had been made Sfg' the following further alloca-Smr-Sorings County Council. £10; SSSSote County Council, £2O; RicSrton Borough Council, £ls; WaijSrt County Council, £5.