TRADE OF THE PORT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 8

TRADE OF THE PORT

FIGURES FOR JUNE DECREASE-ON PREVIOUS , YEAR The shipping and cargo statistics of the port of Wellington for the month of June, tabled at the meeting of the Harbour Board last night, showed that the total net registered tonnage .of trading vessels arriving w.as 291,323 tons, compared with 272,225 for . the corresponding month last year. The net tonnage of vessels departing for Great Britain totalled 39,004, and for other oversea ports 41,254, a total of 80,258 tops, compared with 123,641 tons the previous June. - The general cargo imports during last month from British and foreign ports totalled 28,585 tons, as against 31,703 tons for the corresponding month last vear, while the cargo imports from coastal and intercolonial ports amounted to 22,765. compared )vith 24,999 tons for June, 1926. / Other returns given were as follow, the figures for June of the previous year being given in parentheses: — General cargo transhipments, 10,015 tons (9073 tons). ■ General cargo exports: To British and foreign ports, 8189 tons (5219 tons); to coastal and intercolonial ports, 17,013 tons (16,491 tons). Timber imports, 1,639,881 super feet (9,017,219 super feet) ; exports, 141,558 super feet (107,401 super feet). Coal: Imports over wharves paying wharfage, 16,462 tons (7,498 tons); transhipped overside, 12,328 tons (13,105 tons) ; Government coal landed, exempt from wharfage, 3790 tons (2611 tons). Oils in'bulk: Imports, 3312 tons (19,718 tons) ; exports, 10,198 tons (6205 tons) ; transhipped overside, 751 tons (4696 tons). Wool and hemp shipments: Iranshipped 2763 bales (2255 bales) ; shipped from store and rail, 9787 bales (6918 bales).' ( Butter, cheese, and frozen meat shipments: Butter ex store and rail and transhipped, 752 tons (504 tons) ; cheese, 3442 tons (2625 tons) ;. frozen meat, 4631 tons (2887 tons). Total for June, 139,701 tons' (150,1a4 tons). ' „ „ , The chairman (Mr. J. G. Cobbe) explained that, although the figures showed a falling off of over 20.000 tons, it would be noticed that exports had considerably increased and imports decreased, which would be a good thmg for the country. The principal falling off in imports was in timber.