TRADE OF PORT
LAST YEAR’S FIGURES The export of limber from the port of Groymoulh during ItE’.S totalled 29.653,247 superficial feel, or 199.8t)6 feel more than in 1937. a decline of over half a million feel in the export to Australia being more (tian ha lanced by an increase in rhe shipments io other New Zealand ports. The exports of coal during the year, however, showed a substantial decline, the total of 167.118 lons llewt being 16,394 tons llewt loss than in 1937. During December 1938. there was an increase of nearly 4000 tons in the quantity of coal shipped, as compared J with December 1937, but a decrease of
nearly 800,000 feet in the export of timber. The figures for 1038 and the month of December, with comparisons, supplied by the Greymouth Harbour Board, were (timber shown in superficial feet, and coal to the nearest ton); TIMBER.
1937: Coastal 19,467,393, overseas 9.686,048. total 29,153.441. 1938: 20.740.934 — 5.912.313—29,653,247. December 1937: 2,330,987—614,068— 2.945,055. December 1938: 1.200.839 — 961.230—2,162.069. COAL. 1937: Coastal 180,021, overseas 3.489. total 183,513. .1938, January-December: .161.498 —5,620 — 167.119. December. 1937: 11.529 —ni1—11,529. December. 1938: 1 1.920—531 —15,4 51.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1939, Page 5
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