GISBORNE’S TRADE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2141, 25 July 1907, Page 4

GISBORNE’S TRADE

SATISFACTORY FIGURES. Tho statistics laid before the Harbor Board mooting furnish satisfactory reading as showing tho steady growth of trade through this port. JUNE FIGURES. Imports: 393,104 ft timber, 3390 posts and house-blocks, 48,500 bricks a.id tiles, 20J tons lime, 90 casks and 579 bags cement, 1313 tons coal, 17 horses, 12 hales wool, 5 sacks grassseed, 892 sacks potatoes, 2775 sacks oats, 330 sacks chaff, 24 sacks wheat, 83 sacks malt, 439 sacks bran and pc-llard, 18i tons oatmeal, 146 tons flour, 28 tons sugar, 17 tons salt, 1177 cases lceroseno and benzine, 981 cases fruit, 46 hogsheads, 155 cases, 10 kilderkins, and 6 barrels beer, 50 cases, 16 1-casks, and 7 octaves wines, 662 cases, 8 1-casks, and 28 octaves spirits, and 1209 tous measurement miscellaneous. Exports: 345 boxes butter, 27,240 cm oases mutton, 1714 carcases lamb, 461 tons of meat sundries, 55 eases presrved meats, 221 casks pelts, 582 casks tallow, 28 kegs casings, 2753 hides, 1185 sheepskins, 142 tons manure, 1325 hales wool, 1544 live sheep, 0 horses, 75 sacks grass-seed, 070 sacks maize, 403 sacks barley, 78 sacks chaff, 33 sacks potatoes, 2 tons 4cwf 2 quarters honey, 70 cases fruit, and 293 tons measurement miscellanequs. HALF-YEARLY RETURNS TO . .JUNE 30. Imports: 2,683.261 ft timber, 23,799 post,-, and house-blocks, 56,990 bricks and tiles, 145 tons lime, 392 casks and 2Hf.i bags cement. 6676 tons coal, 103 horses and cattle, 2241 sheep, 7600 hales and 803 pockets coastal wool. 1087 sacks grass-seed, 2157 sacks potatoes, 12,407 sacks oats. 2037 sacks chaff. 789 sacks wheat, 709 sacks malt, 1494 sacks bran and pollard, 75 tons of oatmeal, 961 tons flour, 403 tons sugar, 267 tons salt, 5184 cases kerosene and benzine, 4519 cases Unit, 329 hogsheads, 1645 cases, 29 I kilderkins, 20 barrels, and 0 kegs bee- and stout, 493 cases, 24 -J-casks, an! 13 octaves wines, 2758 cases, 104 1-casks, and 67 octaves spirits, and 906) tons measurement miscellaneous Exports: 4776 boxes butter, 171,353 carcases mutton, 71,631 carcases lamb, 1210 tons meat sundries, 1134 cases preserved meats, 1181 casks pelts, 2304 casks tallow, 156 kegs casings 5545 hides, 14,096 sheepskins, 547 tons manure, 23,512 hales and 196~ pockets wool. 12,254 live sheep, 30 horses and cattle, 2999 sacks grassseed, 1201 sacks maize, 1524 sacks barley, 24 sacks linseed, 409 sacks chaff, 234 sacks potatoes, 10 tons 3cwt 2 quarters honey, 12,225 cases fruit, 60 hoxes soap, 2015 measuremen f miscellaneous.