SHIPPING THROUGH PATEA

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 9

SHIPPING THROUGH PATEA

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS INCREASE.

RETURNS FOR CALENDAR YEAR.

Increases in both exports and imports through the Patea port are the features of the figures for the twelve months ending December 31. Butter, and cheese account for the increase in outward shipping, as all other exports are reduced when compared with the figures for 1929. Details are:— ■

The principal commodities exported through Rdtea are dairy produce, hides, frozen meat and pelts. In 1929 39 tons of wool, 152 tons of tallow and 51 tons of skins were also exported. By far the biggest proportion of outward bound merchandise is composed of dairy produce as shown by the following td'ble, which is also an analysis of the whole export trade:—

Imports are chiefly merchandise for [Patea business firms. HEAVY RAINFALL AT HAWERA. 30 POINTS IN A FEW MINUTES. In the space of a few minutes 30 points of rain fell in Hawera yesterday. Shortly after 1.30 p.m. there was a brief shower, the rain then slackening off until about two o'clock, when the fall suddenly increased in violence for about five minutes, again ceasing. 'So heavy was the rain for a few minutes that the rise in the level of water in the channels was quite noticeable. and a number of the water-tables were rapidly filled to overflowing. Water penetrated several business premises. In one case a proprietor, who had gone to the door of his shop, returned to find tlie floor some inches under water, which was streaming in the back entrance. No great damage was done. ' An open-air auction sale had to be postponed. A good deal of the offering was out in the rain, but here again no serious damage was done. SOUTH TARANAKI POWER BOARD’S BUSINESS REVIEWED. The South Taranaki Electric Power Board held its monthly meeting last night. The engineer (Mr. T. -R. Overton) reported that the total number of units generated in December,. 1930, was 231,010, as compared . with 1'67,210 in December, 1929, an increase of 63,800 units. The maximum demand was 792 k.w. last December and 660 k.w. in the same month in 1929, the increase being 162 k.w. Details of the connected load up to the month ending January 14, 1931, with the increases for the month in parentheses, are as follow:—Lighting, 1028-68 k.w. (2.48 k.w.; 62 points); heating and iron points, 2671 (29), k.w.; 1855.4 (17.4); ranges, 55 ( —), k.w., 288 (—); water-heaters, 111 (1), k.w., 74.75 (6); consumers connected, 2777 (7); industrial motors, .275 (2), k.w., 1054.86 (2.238); milking motors, 235 (nil),, k.w., 417.7 (nil); field pumps, 79 (3), h.p., 23.55 (.75); drainage pumps, 5. (nil),_h.p., 32 (nil); month’s increase, 23.217 k.w. There were seven new consumers,,. 62 lighting points, 29 heat points, one water-heater, two industrial motors and three field pumps. PUKEKOHE BOWLERS DEFEATED VICTORY FOR PARK CLUB RINKS. Park (Hawera) bowlers defeated the two touring Pukekoh© rinks yesterday morning by 34 points to 28. The visitors were welcomed by the president of the Park Club (Mr. J. Goodwin). Mr. C.. K. Lawrie, who replied, was presented with a necklet of potatoes and onions, as symbolising + he district from which he and his fellow bowlers hailed. T - a A v-xl n Tr* .

OPENING OF “WHOOPEE” SEASON. “THE WOMAN RACKET” AT GRANO “Whoopee,” featuring the renowned comedian Eddie Cantor, commences a •season of three niatinees and three nights at the Opera House, Hawera, this afternoon. Eddie Cantor’s screen musical comedy, his first, is based on that uproarious farce, “The Nervous Wreck,” which later became “Whoopee” with the addition of William Anthony McGuire’s lyrics and Walter Donaldson’s tunes. It is the first United Artists’ picture in technicolour and ie said to represent the most advanced use and the most perfect example of the possibilities of the colour screen yet made. The outstanding note of the first Ziegfeld-Gold wyn picture, after Cantor has had his say, is girls. Never in Hollywood’s rather girl-coilscious history has a group of young ladies been selected with such meticulous care; face, form, costuming, all combine to give a resplendent and decorative femininity an eye-filling display that surpasses even the most ambitious of the girlglorifying “Follies,” which Mr. Ziegfeld now says he has fore-sworn in favour of the audible colour screen. Reserves mar be made at Miss Blake's, phone 2713.

Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet, long absent* from the screen, stage a brilliant comeback in Metro-Goldwyp-May-er’s new all-talking picture, “The Woman Racket,” which appears finally at the Grand Theatre, Hawera, to-night. Supporting Moore and Miss Sweet is a capable cast, which includes Sallj' Starr, fresh from “So This Is College?” and “Not So Dumb”; John Miljan, of “Devil May Care”; Robert Agnew, Tenen Holtz, Richard Travers, Nita Martin and a number of others.

1929 Tons 1930 Tons Increase Tons P.c. Exports .... . 24,m 25,266 1102 4.6 Imports .... . 4,226 4,408 182 4.3 Total trad© . . 28,390 29,674 1-284 4.5

Butter 1029 Tons ... 2,157 1930 Tons 2,25'8 Diff. Tons 101* Cheese ..... ... 20,608 21,904 1296* Hides ...... 143 66 77+ Frozen meat 32 7 25f Pelts 1'56 97 59+ Miscel. ..... ... 1,068 934 134+ Totals ... 24,164 25,266 1102* * Signifies increase and t decrease.

Pu. P. G. Lawrie, Day, 0. K. Lawrie, Jamieson (s) IS — Cox, MdPhillips, Goodwin, Quin («) — 19 Bloxham, Boyd, Wymer, Blake (8) ’0 — Bremford, Williamson, Curtis, Mason (e). ....— — 15 Totals ■ 28 34