WESTPORT HARBOUR
DECEMBER RETURNS. | n .spite (if tin.' usual slack period immediately after Christmas. Hie amount ol coal and timber shipped licm Westpoll during December, 1938. compared favourably with that ol the previous month. There was a slight drop in the li,linage of coal ami coke shipped. 31.081 lons 5 cwt. compaicd with 35.711 ions 17 cwt in November.
The Westport Coal Company’s output was 18,392 lons 7 cm I of coal and I I(i tons 3c" I of coke. The.- \\e-siport ;-’t.o( ktou Coal Compal". bandied j 1,()99 ((iiis. 19 cwt., and cooperativemining parties, 41 <8 tons. 16 cwt ol coal.
Timber exported showed an inmu ase in November. 118,030 superficial feet being shipped. Dining the month 28 steamers and five auxiliary sailers, representing 20,040 tons, 'entered the port, and 30 st.earners and 5 auxiliary sailers, representing 20,97.1 ions, left port. Mean high water in the river last month was 25 feet 10 inches, and on iho bur, 21 feet 10 ,inches. The raiutall was 15.65 inches in 27 days, and 205 hours 36 minutes of sunshine were recorded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 4
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