SHIPPING AT NEW MOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11871, 24 January 1902, Page 3

SHIPPING AT NEW MOUTH.

The Taranaki Herald, in dealing with the animal report of the ohairman of the Harbour Board, says: —"The shipping returns showed a gratifying increase-, while tho growth of the imports wag greater both in volume and proportionately than any previous period in the history of the port, proving that, the breakwater is being more generally made use of than it has ever before been. The exports of butter and cheese show a fair rate of increase, notwithstanding that a considerable quantity from the southern end of, the province, which in former years came this way, is now going through Patea. Other exports showed a marked falling off, due largely to the cessation of the cattle trade. In former years large numbers of fat cattle were shipped North, but latterly the Waimate Plains cattle have chiefly gone to Wanganui and Wellington. The. total trade of the port, for all that, shows a greater increase than any year in the last decade except 1897 and 1898. The revenuo of the Board from wharfage was loss by £84- than in 1900, but "this is fully accounted for by a reduction from 3s to 2s per ton on general merchandise. - Other items yielded substantial increases, the gross revenue '. being £4Q3 bettor than in, 1900." \.