SHIPPING ARRIVALS AND TONNAGE
Increases At Wellington The chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, in reviewing the trade and shipping statistics at the Port of Wellington for the month of February at last night’s meeting of the board, stated that there had been an increase in the shipping arrivals as well as in the tonnage handled when compared with the month of February, 1937. The net tonnage of trading vessels arriving was 343,697 tons, an increase of 4753 tons, he said. The cargo handled was 188,062 tons, as compared with 170,169 tons, an increase of 17,893 tons. The principal increases were in imports from British and foreign ports, 12,561 tons; general cargo transhipments, 4823 tons; and exports to coastal and Australian ports, 3369 tons. Decreases were shown in coal imports, 2650 tons; and wool and hemp shipments, 4987 bales.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 10
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