PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 8

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH

• • •" ' '..; :. ItEC'ORR Fiq'URER. !;, • , (BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL* CQBWtSEpSDBSTO , Now Plymouth. 14. • A new ' record: has' been established as regards, the working-,' of..' the• port of New Plymouth" for. 1907. ■ In., cvorj- department the figures are considerably', larger'. than ever before. Tho number of vessels,. the tonnage,' berthage, •' and lyharfiige,' Vnd the;' number of' passengers were 1 larger ■■ than ; erer. ' -The record' in '.passenger . traffic'.''established the previous-year, principally- pn;.accourit' of the largo number' of ..people.' training to -the Exhibition at Christchureh.has fc'eisn eclipsed, Tho total number of jwssengers passed-over, the' breakwater, in.. 1906..- was.-.38,8831' Last year thero. were 46,495:' Tho'total revenue from this courco was £4649-10s., as against £3888 4s. in the previous year.' Tho following are the. figures taken, from the annual rot-urns: 553 vessels, with "a .register, of 281,528 tons ; carg0,'..72,230; tons; being. 57,346 tons imports,. and 15,010 . tons " exports: berthage fees,. £1688:' 145.. 8d..; wharfage, £60131; 6s. 2d/; j»^ngers'4^op,'^jyirig "£4649 10s. in ror.on.uo!". The total''earnings were £13,206 Bs. '7a. The'figures,for 1906 were: 546 .vessels,- tonnage '264,'757 ;' ,; ciirgo,~ 65,181 tons (imports 50,4.71- • • tpiis,' : and;exports 14,710 tons); berthage:fees, '£1548 16s. 7d!; .wharfage, £5302 15s. - Id. 1 ; passengers,'3B,B32; revenue therefrom', £3384 . 45.; The ' figures for the .past quarter; were .-"as follow, last year's records being' given iii parentheses 170 vessels. (171); tonnagsr.'B6,6ol :(84,107), imports. 18,458 tons -(16,324 V,•.'exports 4839 tons (4392), total cargo - . 23j297 tons' 030,716), berthage - fees £540 lls_.. lod. (£494 15s' Bd.), passengers.' 10,668 .(9866),.. 'earnings. £3843 lis. Bd. (£3lßl 3s. 5d.).\ During the, year the dredge has removed 11,900 yards of sand arid silt from the harbour'bottom,'inclusive of the dredging of tho new/berth! Tn the foreman's department oxcellerit work' lias been done. Tho wharf lias! be'en:-widened 180 feet- The extension of'the mole-has'been pushed on and there is now a.-length' of 369 feet, of nciv work;• 133 feet''having'been I •xdded during the vear,.. ■ ' r