DIRECT EXPORT TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 14

DIRECT EXPORT TRADE

. - Av ..A ■ | THE PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH " '-a/? 7 '. • A.' ' ■ MORE SHIPS IN THE DAIRY FLEET . ■ *". .' ' . '<7 . • ! ■ • ■ ■ . ! ... ■ . ■■■ ' ■■■ .<<'.-// -7 .■■.< , •' - ■■ / T“ ———’ —- ... ■: ■■ .7 ..' ■.. ..... . '• DECREASE SHOWN IN IMPORTS . ; ./ '■ :■ : ' 1 i . • a;; •, - ' ■ '■ . ■/ -: ■. - :... .. . . . . - • ■■7.'; 1 ;7. ; ■. .. ; . • ■■; '■ N- ''' . -. "■"■ ■ ' ' ■ • ’ The ontefap'ding’ feature of the past year at New Plymouth has been the growth of the , direct export trade by large overseas vessels; The amount of butter'shipped coastwise during the year- negligible, While all/ but about 5 per cent of the /cheese was sent, by. 39 direct trading overseas ships. During <the last , eight months of 1930 all butter and cheese sent to Britain from New Plymouth was loaded by direct vessels. ■ ', Although the overseas imports at the port decreased-during 1930 to 56,117 tons as compared with 74,115 tons in 1929, the total-overseas trade has Mot been very seriously affected owing to-Athe- very Jarge increase in .exports. A record, export of ”43,159tons;was takemfrom the port during the year. In consequence- the - totab; overseas trade has- fallen less- than was ex- ' peeled. , Should the Waikawa discharge before the z end of the ; year the 10,0;000-ton Mark will again be exceeded,'this year by 26 tons/ In 1929, a<record year, the trade totalled 108,471 tons? . The aggregate trade, overseas, intercolonial and coastal, will amount to about 182,980 tons.: The tonnage record for the port established in 1927, by the arrival of the Mataroa (12,333 tons) was twice eclipsed \ during the latter; part of the year, first, when. the R.M.S. lonic 7 (12,352<Mb5) entered the port in September, and for the sesond time.late inNovember,.when, the Tamaroa (12,354 . tops), berthed at the Newton/King wharf. z