PORT MOTUEKA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 2

PORT MOTUEKA

EXPORT RETURNS ' Appended is the fifty-second annual return of exports of produce from Motueka wharf. It is for the year ended 31st- December, 1928:

Year 1927 Year 1928

The harbourmaster and secretary (Mr P G. Moffatl) attaches the following note: With reference to the item fruit. For reason of making comparisons exports arc always reduced to units of computed bushels of fresh fruit, in the annual return, because fruit and fruit products are shipped in containers of many ever varying descriptions. For instance, during Ihe year 1928. fresh fruits and preserved fruits were shipped in the following packages: Fresh fruit, 398.483 cases (each one bushel). 11.425 half cases. 1.849 boxes, 224 crates, 1,716 buckets, 13 kegs and 11 sacks. Preserved fruit, 337 hogsheads, 1490 quarter casks, 5,613 cases of pulp and jam, and 2,108 cases evaporated fruit.

Won] 591 611 bales Hops 14 nil bales Hemp 167 27 bales Sheepskins 1 8 bales Horsehair nil 2 bales Tobacco 672 2,318 bales Tobacco 70 392 cases Fruit 346.856 441,351 bushels Eggs 1.849 1,580 boxes Honey 47 42 boxes Poultry 10 8 Coops Fish ' 5 nil crates Whitebait Tiil 6 tins Timber nil 3,300 sf. ft, Hides 9 nil Horses 1 nil Sheep 1 700 Pips 212 1 Cattle nil 1 Potatoes ... 529 44 sacks Chaff 200 10 sacks Peas 404 89 sacks Lupin seed 665 575 sacks Melons 596 315 sacks Swedes 36 nil sacks Walnuts ... 10 58 sacks Parley 275 102 sacks Vegetables 51 28 sacks Paeon 8 4 sacks