TRADING SHIP VISITS KAIKOURA
CEMENT FOR MEMORIAL UNLOADED The first trading ship to call at Kaikoura for about 25 years, the coastal vessel Paroto, berthed at the new wharf at 8 a.m. on Friday and unloaded 99 tons of cement for construction work in the Kaikoura county. Most of the consignment will be used on the £30,000 war memorial community centre which is being built opposite the Garden of Memories. The Paroto, commanded by Captain D. H. McKenzie, left Waitapu, the port of Takaka. at 4 a.m. on Thursday.
The Paroto is a general cargo coastal vessel, plying between Collingwood and Nelson, Lyttelton, Wellington and Wanganui. During the summer months her main cargo from Golden Bay to Lyttelton is butter. A small amount of general cargo was loaded at Kaikoura for Wellington, before the Paroto left for Lyttelton at 4 p.m. Although the Kaikoura wharf has not been used by trading vessels for a long time periodic visits were paid between 1938 and 1943 by the Nobel Company’s ketch, Miro, to unload gelignite for use in the construction of the South Island Main Trunk railway. The Miro is now based at the Chatham Islands.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27375, 14 June 1954, Page 6
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