STEADY GROWTH

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 110, 12 May 1927, Page 10

STEADY GROWTH

TOWN OF CISBORNE

PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY

(By Telegraph.—Pregß Association ) GISBORNE, 11th May. In opening the Winter Show this evening m connection with the -jubilee of Gisborne, the Hon. R. F. Bollard gave some interesting particulars of the town of Gisborne. He said it was first constituted a borough on 12th W-- V ' I?l 7V^* that date if ha* » Population of little over. 1000, from which it has grown to 14,130. At the latest maW^t the twelfth town of kew

Except for a brief interval durine the great economic depression of thi 'nineties, Gisbome had forged consider ably ahead. In the last 25 years it had In 1878 Gisborne's 1204 inhabitants were housed in 250 wooden dwelling Now it required nearly 3000 private dwellings, besides hotels and other stitutions. In the last half dozen yews tot»l f f^ g aatirity had aPProached a total of three quarters of a m in ion . a The borough of Gisbome had a Moss capital value of £5,657,000, and af un »iiirSe d,s:is.'' A.«'S "I understand that the revenue of the borough is now in excess of £100 000 1926 83 overseas vessels of a net ton nage of 217,552 entered the port, L addition' to. 509 coastal vessels of a net tonnage of 108,954 tons. Shipping clearing from the port in 1926 amoufted to 587 vessels of 327,416 tons. The ton seen that Gisborne is endowed with progress and prosperity." aoWea Wlth