TOKOMARU BAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16374, 6 March 1924, Page 8

TOKOMARU BAY.

Tho balance sheet of the Tokomaru Harbor Board for 1923 discloses a very satisfactory financial position. The Board opened the year with an overdraft of £225 14s 9d, and closed the year’s operations with tho overdraft wiped out .and a. credit balance at the bank of £Bl3 14s 7d. The receipts totalled £6112 8s lid, the principle revenue being derived from inward and outward wharfages £3524 11s 7d. Launch receipts amounted to £754 14s 6d, and harbor 'dues £1778 3s lOd. On the expenditure side administration cost £573 4s, maintenance. £1045 11s" 6d, launch expenditure £790 7s Bd, wharfage and haulage £907 12s sd, plant-£307 4s, and miscellaneous expenditure, including interest and sinking fund charges £1449. Cargo handled at Tokomaru Bay for the twelve months ending December 31 last was as follows : Imports : 7859 tons 34 feet, including 2396 bales wool. Live"stock: 256 rams, 27 ewes find 3 bulls. Exports: 9717 tons 16 feet, including 12,377 bales wool. (Live stock: 698 sheep and 41 rams. Particulars of frozen meat exported : 64.030 carcases mutton, 35,373 carcases lamb, 12,924 quarters beef; and other sundries. The total frozen meat'exported amounted to 3156 tons. The statistics also disclosed that, the cargo landed on the wharf comprised: General cargo 3014 tons, coal arid coke 3291 tons, timber 159,113 super feet. Air. A. Bccrc, engineer at. the Gisborne Shecpf armors ’ Frozen Moat Co.’s Tokomaru Bay works, is leaving fo Lake up a position as manager of an engineering shop in Melbourne, Australia. He has been over there to make arrangements, and is expected back soon. 110 is well known in Gisborne, and his parents still reside there. Air. and Airs. Fraser, of Waipiro Bay, left on Saturday for Auckland, where they intend to reside. Before leaving, they were presented with a purse, at, an evening held in tho local hall.

It. is hoped to lay tho foundation stone of tho new Anglican church at Waipiro Bay on March.3o, on the occasion of Bishop iSodgowick’s annual visit up the Coast.—(Own Correspondent.)