INSPECTION OF HARBOUR

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25638, 29 October 1948, Page 8

INSPECTION OF HARBOUR

REPRESENTATIVES OF LOCAL BODIES About 60 representatives of local bodies in the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s electorate and shipping company representatives were the guests of the board yesterday at the first inspection of the harbour by local bodies since the beginning of the war. On its arrival in Lyttelton, the party was met aboard the tug Lyttelton and welcomed by the chairman of the board (Mr C. W. Tyler) and the harbourmaster (Captain E. A. Chrisp). Inspections of the wool, grain, and cool stores were made. Interest was taken in machinery on Gladstone pier, formerly used for loading coal. Mr Tyler said the board planned to use the machinery for unloading phosphate cargoes. The watchhouse which is being constructed near the end of the pier, was also inspected. When completed it will be equipped with radar and radio telephone equipment, and will take the place of the station at Adderlev Head, which will be dismantled. The party was taken across the inner harbour to inspect the graving dock where the dredge Canterbury is being overhauled After lunch aboard the Lyttelton, the tug, together with the board’s' latest tug, the Lyttelton 11, went into the outer harbour, where the directionfinders of the Lyttelton were calibrated. Radio navigation aids were also tested. A demonstration of the efficiency of direction finding apparatus was given further up the harbour. The Lyttelton II stood off about two miles, and the windows of the wheelhouse of the Lyttelton were covered. Steaming “blind,” the Lyttelton came up- beside the other tug and circled her. A similar demonstration was given by the Lyttelton 11, and both then sailed back to the inner harbour, where the party disembarked.