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 many forms of recreation. The Council's annual revenue and the annual valuation of the City will summarize the various activities. In 1920–21 the former was £1,075,840, while the latter for the same period was £1,497,095. The progress of the City in the last twenty years may be estimated by a comparison of the figures for 1901. In that year the annual revenue was £82,657 and the annual valuation £349,765. All of the City Council's undertakings are fully dealt with in the following pages.

The Auckland Harbour Board, to which the administration of the Port was delegated under "The Harbour Boards Act, 1870," came into being in the same year as the City Council. These two bodies are the principal corporations of the City, and are largely responsible for the great impiovements which have taken place.

Auckland is situated in longitude 174° 45″ E. and latitude 36° 51″ S. on the Waitemata Harbour, a branch of the great Hauraki Gulf. The position is ideal alike from the commercial and sporting aspects. Its waters are deep enough for the largest ships afloat. When the great battle cruiser Renown, of 28,000 tons, visited Auckland, in 1920, with the Prince of Wales on board, she was able to come right alongside the