BUSY PORT AT TAURANGA

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 14

BUSY PORT AT TAURANGA

Nessels Loading | For Japan < (New Zealand Press Association) j 4 TAURANGA. November 12. A record number of vessels were berthed at the port of Taut ranga today. Eight ships occupied every available foot of berthage on both sides of the , - Garbour At Mount Maunganui were ' •he Japanese freighters Yasukuni Maru and Celebes Mani, loading Es for Japan, the Union Steam Ship Company’s Kaituna. taking n cargo for Australia, and the I - caster Alma. The four vessels at the Tau- - ranga wharf were the Union Company’s Kurow. loading for ; Australia, the Richardson Line’s ; coastal motorship Pateke. the Northern Steam Ship Company’s roaster Maunganui. loading for the South Island, and the same company's Waiotahi discharging r general cargo from Auckland. ( \ Waiting in the roadstead was e the talker. Jaraconda. with e motor spirit from the Gulf of ( e Mexico for discharge at Mount , Maunganui. More busy days lie ahead. The Yasukuni Maru is expected to sail from the Mount tomorrow and the Kaituna and the Celebes f Maru on Friday while the Jara- . nda will berth on Friday morn- i • .Meantime, another tanker, the! 5 Stanvac Bangkok, is timed toi arrive in the roadstead on Friday e out will have to wait until Sat- - to berth after the Jara-! : r.da has sailed. Three more ships, the Nor-! ■? -. egian freighter Taronga. an-; e •.her Japanese timber ship, the - Z_yko Maru. and the Union j Csrr.pany’s motor vessel Kauri arc: : at the week-end. On Mon- . ".l-. the coastal tanker Tanea is . expected. Promotion Of Police Inspector e . Zeatana Press Association/ DUNEDIN. November 12. Inspector J. Gibson, of the Dunec.n police, has successfully ap- : peaied for promotion to the rank : : chief inspector. This has been : -or.fi: med in Wellington by the' 1 ? Ass.riant Commissioner (Mr W. Carran•. Mr Carran said that Inspector r.'s promotion would not - :me effective until the legal ■ zcrmakties of advertising it in £ ‘.r.- Police Journal” had been a.ried out. If no appeals were •□ged. the promotion would be-. . me effective in about three! Asked whether the department .mended to retain both the prer ~-zr.z chief inspector (Mr E. M. T ma«» and Inspector Gibson in D_r.edin. Mr Carran said no dccihad yet been made.