LYTTELTON HARBOUR BOARD

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 3

LYTTELTON HARBOUR BOARD

PORT STATISTICS FOR MAY decrease of £2493 11s lOd in the monthly revenue was reported to the Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday by its secretary, Mr C. H. Clibborn. The total revenue for May was £6219 9s 4d, compared with £8713 Is 2d in May last year. The receipts for the first eight months of the present financial year total £72,312 10s Bd, compared with £66,944 13s Id for the same period last year, an increase of £5367 17s 7d. Details of the revenue

are: — £ s. d. Wharfage 789 17 8 Pilotage - • IDUO ID V Port charges Jim Berthage 582 10 2 Towage, warps, etc. 302 2 11 Storage and cool storage .. Rent 657 373 6 2 14 9 Hire of cranes .. 933 17 9 Sundry reqeipts 23 17 0 6219 9 4 The secretary exolained that the decrease in revenue N r May was apparently common to most ports in the Dominion. The cargo statistics for last month. compared with the figures for the same period last year, are:Imports 1937. 1936. Tons. Tons. British ports .. .. 6,872 3,350 Foreign ports .. 4,081 14.320 Intercolonial ports .. 6,548 5,086 Coastal ports .. 12,464 10,630 29,965 33,436 Exports 1937. 1935. Tons. Tors. British ports .. .. 6,597 8.005 Foreign ports .. .. 2,458 1,725 Intercolonial ports .. 557 686 Coastal ports .. 18,273 19,917 27.885 30,333 Transhipments 1937. 1936. Tons. Tons. Coastal to coastal .. 2 2 Coastal to oversea .. 313 86 Oversea to coastal .. 31 63 346 151