HARBOUR BOARD OPERATIONS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 50

HARBOUR BOARD OPERATIONS

A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

INCREASES ALL ROUND

A summary of the operations for ihe year at the Wellington wharves was submitted to the Harbour Beard at its meeting on the 31st : INWARDS. 1900. 1399. Tons. Tons. Foreign ... ... 93,558 79.808 Colonial and coastal 82,032 83,902 Transhipments ... V 7,469 80,173 Totals 253,059 243,883 Increase, 9176 tons, or 3$ per cent. Increase of inwards and foreign goods, 13,750 tons, c-r 174 per cent. GUT WARDS. 1900. 1899. Tons. Tons. Foreign ... ... 28,516 21.939 Colonial and coastal 62,012 60,855 Totals 88,523 82,335 Increase, 6193 tons, or 1\ per cent. WOOL AND HEMP. The following figures show the number of bales -of wool dealt with for twelve months ending 31st December : 1900. 1899. Wool 120,708 107,488 Hemp 68.;-539 45,227 Totals ... ... 189,297 151,863 Wool increase, 13,270 bales, or 12 1-3 per cent. Hemp increase, 24,662 bales, or 56 per cent. Combined increase (wool and hemp), 37,932 bales, or 25 per cent. For the twelve months ending Sep-, tomiber 30th, 1900, the figures were as under: — 1900. 1899. Wool (bales') 125,346 103,988 Hemp (bales) 76,933 37,016 Totals 202,279 146,004 Wool increase, 16,359 bales, or 15 per cent. Hemp increase, 29,917 bales, or 107.8 per cent. Combined increase (wool and hemp), 46,276, or 384 per cent. COAL 1900. 1899. Tons. Tons. Coal 61,436 55,461 Increase, 5975 tons, or 10J per cent. TIMBER—OiI T W ARD 3. 1900. 1899. Timber (super, feet) 1.421,268 897,256 Increase, 524,012 super, feet, or 584 per cent. STEAMERS AND SAILERS.

Nuro- To liber. nage. Steamers (1900) ... 2443 1.509,732 Steamers (1899) ... 2393 1,386,576 Increase, fifty steamers of 123,156 tons (2 per cent, and 9 per cent).

Sailers (1900) 110 47,354 Sailers (1899) 85 36,914 Increase, twenty-five ships, 10,440 tons (21 per cent, and 28 per cent.) Total increase of seventy-five vessels of 133,596 tons (3 per cent, and 9 4 percent.)