APRIL SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 108, 10 May 1927, Page 9

APRIL SHIPPING.

INCREASE IN WAITEMATA

FEWER CRAFT IN MANUKAU,

Shipping that arrived in Auckland Harbour during the month of April, 1926, numbered nine more vessels than the total for the same month last year, and the increase in gross tonnage was 17,753. Captain H. H. Sergeant, harbourmaster, reported to the Harbour Board this afternoon that the April arrivals comprised three British warships, two Royal Mail steamers, twenty-two large cargo vessels, eleven inter-colonial or Island traders, twenty-eight coastal vessels, together with SBl local coastal vessels, making a grand total of 468 vessels of 349,433 gross tons, or 212,540 net tons.

Calliope Dock was engaged for twenty days by four vessels of 11,395 tons. The Northumberland undocked on the 20th, after two months in dock.

During the month the board's tug Te Awhina assisted to berth or remove 5C steamers, 2 coal hulks, 12 scows to and from Rangitoto.

Captain H. Hogan, relieving harbourmaster, Manukau, reported the April arrivals at that port were 17 vessels, with a total gross tonnage of 12,362, a decrease when compared with the same month last year of 13 vessels, representing 4439 tons gross.