PORT OF WELLINGTON.
ANNUAL STATISTICS
(Press Association*)
WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. The annual report of the Harbor Board, submitted to-day, reviews the year’s work. The shipments of wool, skins, hemp, <ancl tow amounted to 218 094 bal es, which constitutes a record. Wool, 10,127 hides, is better than in 1907. Hemp decreased by 10.9 per : cent. The exports of genoral goods amounted to 103,105 tons, the largest yet recorded. The shipping tonnage doubled in the past 10 years. One paragraph in the report states that taking the accommodation and despatch provided, and tno amount of work done 'for the charges levied, Wellington is.still the cheapest port in the Dominion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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108PORT OF WELLINGTON. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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