HASTINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
POST OFFICE AND RAILWAY HZ TURNS. Included in the President’s report presented to the Hastings Chamber of Commerce on Friday night were the following tables, being in detail a return for Money’ Order and Savings Bank business for the year ending 31st March, 1912 ; a return showing the total output of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers Co., Ltd. for the season 1910-11, and a table giving the railway returns at Hastings for the years 1910-11. Fruit and vegetables. The total output of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Company. Limited for the 1910-1911 season was 29,614 packages of fruits and vegetables. MONEY ORDER AND SAVINGS BANK. Money Order and Savings Bank business and the number of postal notes issued at Hastings during the year ended March 31, 1912: — Money Orders. —Issued 15,755, value £26,352 4 1 ; paid, 3693, value £20,995/18'6. Savings Bank. —New accounts opened 910. deposits 8474, value £123,255 15/3, number of accounts closed 352. withdrawals 3938 valued at £81.467 9.10. Postal N0te5.—17,713.
The number of telephone exchange connections on the 31st March, 1912. was 657. RAILWAY RETURNS.
The following are tho Hastings railway returns for th? years 19 1 i and 1911. The 1910 figures appearing in parenthesis :— Outward.—No. hands, (16) 16 ; traffic expenditure, (£2627 19 11) £2612 14 6: total No. tickets. (90.307) 91.308; No. season tickets, (134'9) 1215 ; parcels. (6408) 7234 : horses. (625) 609 ; trucks and chaff. (264) 308 : cattle, (773) 570; sheep. (14,845) 7029; bales of wool, (8001) 8008; t rucks of firewood, (9) 20 ; timber (superficial feet), (309,600) 299,700; grain (tons and cwt), (1807 tons 7 cwt) 3 «o tons 3 cwt : merchandise
(tons and cwt), 95-16 tons 4 cwt) 9764 tons 17 cwt ; ordinary passengers, (£14,268 52) £14.60811-: season tickets, (£1049.9.5) £1287 23; parcels, £1428 12 8) £1639/16 10; luggage, etc., (£299 12 2) £266 94; goods. (£10,370,12/1) £9059,1/2; miscellaneous, (£42,2/1) £66 17 6; rents and commission, (£334 4,8) £5OB 0/11. Inward. —Parcels, (7895) 8701 ; horses, (406) 296 : trucks lime and chaff, (204) 250 ; cattle, (2587) 2335 : sheep, (118,561) 122,401 ; bales of wool, (1735) 1353 ; timber (superficial feet), (3,396,800) 5,051,000; grain (tons and cwt), (4537 tons 11 cwt) 7214 tons 2 cwt; merchandise (tons and cwt), (5057 tons 19 cwt) 4783 tons 19 cwt ; minerals, /12,080 tors llcwt) 13.872 tons 9cwt.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 168, 1 July 1912, Page 3
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379HASTINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 168, 1 July 1912, Page 3
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