CASHIN QUAY CRITICISED
“Why build any more ‘bum’ berths when New Zealand has enough of them already? There is a constant strain on the moorings and our gangway has been damaged while we have been berthed at Cashin Quay,” said Captain J. Gunning, master of the Shaw Savill cargo liner Iberic at Lyttelton yesterday.
Captain Gunning's vessel berth and there was a has been moving fairly freely moderate swell with a light alongside the quay but no north-easterly breeze, but the more so than other vessels swell appeared to be increasberthed there. tag. Last evening, the Iberic When asked if he had said was rolling slightly at her the berth was “awful”, he did not deny it, but said that he might have qualified it but was busy at the time. The movement at the quayyesterday was no more excessive than with other vessels. The Iberic, however, is a large vessel of 11,248 tons gross, and 510 ft long. She has almost completed discharging 1600 tons of general cargo and is due to sail today.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 3
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