PORT OF LYTTELTON.
LAST YEAR'S OPERATIONS. ! EXPORTS VALUED AT £3,225,428. | [bt telegraph— prt;ss ASSOCIATION.] , CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The annual report of the Lvttelton Har. | bour Board for last year states that taking into account the disorganisation of shipping due to the war the board's revenue remained fairly satisfactory. Tho j earnings for the year amounted to £63,562, or £3835 more than during 1917. The wharfage returns showed a decrease of f £678, due to a falling off of 42,075 tons jj in the quantity of goods passing over the f board's wharves. The value of exports from Lyttelton j was £3,225,428, a decrease of £700,813. '1 There was an increase in the value of imports, which were £3,781,115, an increase of £537,254. The number of vessels that entered th# j port during 1918 was 1841, a decrease on | the previous year of 142. Tho total ton-. ' nage was 1,128,900, a decrease of 204,553' tons compared with the previous year. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17112, 18 March 1919, Page 6
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159PORT OF LYTTELTON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17112, 18 March 1919, Page 6
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