PORT RETURNS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15120, 20 January 1920, Page 6

PORT RETURNS.

— ■♦■ IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DURING 1919. The following returns compiled by tin Gisborne Harbor Board clerical stafl shows the imports and exports handled at the Gisborne wharf, during 1919:— The total tonnage inwards was 60,052 tons a« against 56,054 tons for 1918. Tho exports last year reached 51,408 tons, a large Increase on 1918, which amounted to 28,251 tons. * Tho principal items that camo into Gisborne during 1919 were .—795,422 ft timber, 17,817 posts, 1781 house blocks, 116 strain' ers, 16,190 bricks, 260A tons lime, 13341 ■ tons cement, 18,134 tons coal, 108 cattle, 301 horses, 3080 sheep, 14,755* bales coastal wool, 2972 sacks :grasß-seed, 11,505 • sacks potatoes, 20,116 (sacks' :bats, 19,004 sacks chaff, 1592 sacks wheat, 3346 sacks malt, 8668 sacks bran and pollard, 747 tons coke, 2207 tons flour, 1091 tons sugar, 716 tons salt, 38,545 cases . benzine and kerosene, 431 tons fruit; 611 -hogshead, 217 tons, 600 kilderkins, 48 barrels, and 1 keg , b^„ aud sfcoufc ' 2585 cuWc feet wines, 10 906 cubic feet spirit 198. motor cars, tbbb tons fencing wire, SfflM6iis shingle and stone, 833 tons pumice,; 148^ tons Government coal", 15,326 tons: i_ea"stlrement and weight miscellaneous. »^!« cxpoi " t3 were *— 9123 boxes butter, 348,680 carcases mutton; 98,927 carcases lamb, 6489 tons 2 cwt beef, 379 tons 2 cwt meat sundries, 7650 cases preserved meats, 1006 tons 2 cwt* pelts, 2350 tons 5 cwt tallow, 82 tons 4 >c*tr casings, 25,716 hides, 6 bales sheepskins,';i37| tons 6 cwt manure, 78,919 bales 434 packets wool, 21,326 sheep, 130 cattle, 185 horses, 1816 sacks grass-seed, 9167 "sacks maize, 4865 sacks barley, 240 sacks oats, 1014 sacks chaff, 235 sacks potatoes, 2 tons 7 cwt honey, % tons fruit, 1,396,458 ft timber, 34,804 bricks, 28 motor cars, 998 posts, 9200 tiles, 2253 tons c0a1,;3Q4. house blecks, 6249 tons measurement '"^vdvAvcight miscellaneous. * *"■*'••■ The imports lightered totalled 38,494* tons, not lightered 21,558 tons. The exports, lightered 38,520 tons, not lightered 12,888 tons. Of the total exports and imports 69 per cent. Ayas. lightered and 31 per cent, was lari3e_' direct at the wharf. s -•••■•'-•