SHIPPING RECORDS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 34, 12 March 1930, Page 8

SHIPPING RECORDS

FEBRUARY A BUSY MONTH FOR NAPIER. MUCH MEAT EXPORT. February was a-busy month in the port of Napier. The registered tonnage of vesseis working tho port in the month was 66,849 tons, a record for the month of February for three years. In all 41 vesseis visited the "port, 11 of the large ones going to the Breakwater, while six lay out in the roadstead. The importation of general cargo m February was also^ greater than for the same montli last year and the year pre-

Vious, the total being 6749 tons, compargd with 6270 tons in 1929 and 47(H tonS in 1928. - Export figures showed a marked advanee on the record of previous Februarys. A total of 98,555 Jamb carcases was sent away, this being appreciabl / greater than last year's 72,054 and tlie previous season's 56,525. ^lutton totalled 86,809 carcases, compared with 60,576 last February and 49,027 m February 1927. Tlie quietness in the wool trade is reflected in the export figures of that oommodity, which sliow that only 19,496 bales were sent away. Last year 32,000 bales were exported during February. The sbrinkago is, of course, attributable in some measure to the fact that many farmers are holding their wool for a possible rise m price and there tliuS not the quantity. to send out of the country.