A YEAR'S SHIPPING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 5

A YEAR'S SHIPPING.

■■■ ■— ; 4 —3 — PORT OF WELLINGTON. INTERESTING COMPABATIVE' FIGURES. . Wellington's. shipping . increased considerably ;iri" tonnage, but. deoreased, in.number of vessels during the year ended Maroh.3l, 1909. The imports fell off, but tho exports, grew, and the 'inol'eases 1 and decreases .'in feoveral lines form an interesting isubjeot for. study. Comparative figures were" submitted to the Harbour Board at its. meeting -yesterday afternoon. ' : ■ Tho (tonnagi of. vessels arriving during tho 12, months ended March ,31 haa already been' published ill The Dominion. , ... The tonnage .of general.goods for ending March 81 was as follows:— Inwards and Transhipments. i . '1908-9. 1907-8. • • Tons. Tons. Inwards; • foreign 156,693 167,380 Inwards, colonial .and coastal 175,051 175,638 Transhipments .... . ... ■; 126,076 ■ 122,703 ' ~ 457,820 465,721 ;. Total deoreaso, 7901. tons, or 1.7 per oent. (previous year-14.7 per, cent, increase). .■ Decrease inwards, foreign, 1Q.637 tons, or 6.4 per-cent, (previous year 16.3 per oent. increase); : Deoreaso inwards, colonial arid coastal, 587 tons, or 0.3 per cent, (previous year 9.7 per cent, increase). ; '. - ■...,. ' .;'lnorease transhipments, 3373 tons,; or 2.7 per . cent, (previous year 20.2 por cent., increase)... Outwards. I > ■ V.1505-9. ■ 1907-8. " ? > ' . . Tonsi. ■ Tons. Outwards, foreign ... ... 43,203 38,919 Outwards, colonial and coastal 104,219 101,596 147,422 140,545 : Total-increase, 6877 tons, or 4.8 per cent, (pro- • vious year 6.6 per cent, increase). ■■ .Increase outwards,.foreigt. <251 tons, or 10.9 , Per cent (previous year 0.17: per cent, decrease). -Inoreaso outwards, "colonial and coastal, 2623 tons, or 2.5 per cent, (previous year 9.4 por cent, increase). V": . . Wool and Hemp. .'■• The exports, of wool and hemp for the last ■ twelve-monthly period and the previous one were as follow; —. ■ . ■ ' Y ; ,' IMB-9.T . 1907-8. ' Wo6l, bales ... 155,348 134,252 ' Hemp, bales ... 66,433 v '81,170 221,781 215,422 / There', was .thus an increase of 21,096 bales of wool (or 15.7 per -cent., and a, decrease of 14,737,'ba1es of. hemp, 18.1 per' corit;), the net increase of wool "ana hemp being 6359,' or 2.9 per, cent. In 1907-8;' as compared' with 1906-7, the increase in 1 wool was 1 .36 - per cent.,' 'and the decrease in hemp 12.8 per cent.; net decrease 5.01 per cent, ■ v ■■ jv'..,. Coal. • '. : ■ ■The.imports of coal were 159,418't0ns (previous _ twelve months. 152,091),; an increase. of '324, tons, or 4.8 per cent.i Tho rate of. increase tor the previous year.was 12.7 per cent. . , : i ' Chairman's Remarks. '. The . chairman' (slri T. 11. Wilford, If.P.), in reviewing the above ."Summary-of Working," i, though thero had been a good deal •?{. f?'* s ' "hard times," the figures showed .that so far as-the port of Wellington, at any ■ rate,,was concerned, there was no roason to.be alarmed. They must be awake to the fact that there.,were decreases in-dertain !ltnes, but wei"h them against the, increases, in other lines: It was the opinion of the board that^there, was good reason for gratification in .the foot that, although imports 3iad decreased, fudrthe board had thereby lost some revenue in wharfage,' and storage, and crainago, yet the' .exports .were increasing. . This increase was a healthy sign for'the country. Another.',excel-: was to be seen in the overtures that fiad:been made .to him as ohairmaiL for loans :°v money at : rates .whioh- he could' not at present .state, but whioh; he. would lav before the board at the proper time,' and which showed tnat .more healthy- tone was now prevailing and that aithouffh .rooney had been .tigh£ : there reason at all for despair. More; optirais-' "cally. thau that ho/would not speak at prosent.