PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 54, 15 January 1921, Page 4

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

The trade of the Port of New Plymouth last year easily constituted a record im the port’s history t the imports amounting to 95,712 tons and the exports to 28,242 tons, making a total of 123,954. In, the preceding vear the imports amounted to 71,972 tons and the exports to 32,347 tons, or a, total of 104319 tons. The falling off in the exports is explained by the fact that in the previous year a large quantity of the dairy produce which was shipped had been accumulating for some considerable time previous owing to the congestion of ship, ping. Last year 13,437 tons of butter and cheese were handled at the port against 19,147 tons in the previous year. Tlie quantity of meat handled shows a very satisfactory increase, the figures for the year just closed being 6564 tons, or 215,818 freight carcases, compared with 4520 tons or 148,621 freight carcases in the previous year. Th© number of vessels trading at the port last year was 238 against 263 in; the previous year, hut the tonnage had increased from 141,051 tons to 152,509 tons, showing that with the development which is taking place larger vessels are handling the trade. A particularly satisfactory feature .n this connection (reports the Herald) is the increase in the number of overseas liners which called at New Plymouth. Last year 12 liners berthed at Moturoa against 7 in the previous year.