PORT FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 9

PORT FIGURES

A BUSY DECEMBER

BIG INCREASE IN TONNAGE

HANDLED,

In placing before members of the Harbour Board figures, showing imports and exports for the month of December, theiChairman, Mr. G. Mitchell, last evening'remarked upon the big increase on the figures for the corresponding month of 1922, for while there were slight de-. creases in on» or two classes of goods handled, ths total tonnage in and out ■was,over 25,000 tons above that for December, 1922. The ■ detailed figures are as : follow, those for 1922 being shown in. parentheses :^— ■ ■ ■ ' ■ Cargo.—From British' and foreign ports, 24,006 • (18,257); from coastal and intercolonial ports, 18,762 '(14,160); general cargo transhipments, 13,280 0-1,354); general cargo exports to British 'and foreign ports, 4746 (4359),, to coastal and intercolonial ports, 13;181:. (10,568) j timber, imports, super feet, 2.568,769 (940,----788), exports 90,924 (79,327); coal imports over wharves paying ;i 'wharfage, 14,755 (12,776),''" transhipped --overside, 112,610 (14,523), Government coal landed, exempt from wharfage, 7993 (30); wool ; anS hemp shipments, transhipped, bales, '4766 (521), shipped frornl^ shore to. rail, 23,517 (17,357); butter ex shore and rail and transhipped, tons 2185 (2527); cheese ex shore and rail and transhipped, tons 7179 (3899); frozen meat ex shore and rail and transhipped, tons 249 (675). •Grand total for month (all cargo brought to tonnage basis), 122,085 (96,----867). /■ '

Total increase in cargo tonnage over that for December, 1922, 25,268 tons. Total net tonnage of vessels arriving December, 289,030 (202,476); of vessels arriving during quarter ended December 751,429,(579,408).