A Record Export Year

A remarkable export record was put up by Poverty Bay district in the year 1915. According to figures supplied by the Collector of Customs for the year 1915 the value of exports from Poverty Bay reached the huge total of £1,941,736. This easily placed Poverty Bay, as the principal exporting district in the Dominion, on a population basis.

The official Year Book for 1915 gave the population at a total of 21,158 for the district and the total figures would thus work out on a population basis at £96 13s 3d per head and this no doubt constituted a Dominion record.