New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . n end of the journey. Practically everyharbour which has control of an open roadstead isimproving it. Some have done excellently well commenced nearly forty years ago to work on ascheme suggested by Sir John Coode, and now, insteadof the open road, there is a fine artificial harbour, thebest in the Dominion, receiving 400,000 tons of shippingin the year and negotiating nearly two million poundsworth of trade. At a single time the harbour has accom-modated eight large vessels of an aggregate tonnage of28,960 tons. In
New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . n end of the journey. Practically everyharbour which has control of an open roadstead isimproving it. Some have done excellently well commenced nearly forty years ago to work on ascheme suggested by Sir John Coode, and now, insteadof the open road, there is a fine artificial harbour, thebest in the Dominion, receiving 400,000 tons of shippingin the year and negotiating nearly two million poundsworth of trade. At a single time the harbour has accom-modated eight large vessels of an aggregate tonnage of28,960 tons. In the ten years 1897 to 1907 the trade ofTimaru increased by 138 per cent., creating a recordof expansion amongst the ports of New , a few miles to the southward on the samesurf-beaten coast, represents an attempt to get over muchthe same difficulties by different—and, as it happened,much less successful—methods. But the open road forwhich the greatest future is expected is undoubtedly thatof Gisborne, the indentation which Cook so unsuitably. OCEAN-GOING STEAMERS LYING IN THE ARTIFICIAL HARBOUR AT TIMARU.
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