Port officials to meet

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 3

Port officials to meet

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 25. Representatives of major overseas ports will arrive at Auckland during the next few days to attend the national harbours conference, which will begin on Wednesday. The conference will last three days, and representatives will present papers on many aspects of cargo handling and port operations. The conference will be the largest of its kind in New Zealand. Harbour board officials from most New Zealand ports are expected to send representatives.

Sir Clifford Dove, chairman of the British Transport Docks Board, will be a' special guest of the Auckland Harbour Board. He is to be the board’s guest speaker at its centennial dinner on March 31. Other overseas visitors will include Viscount Simon, chairman of the Port of London Authority. He will also represent the International Association of Ports and Harbours and the International Cargo handling Co-ordination ! Association. Mr A. L. King, director of marine terminals for the Port of New York Authority, and i Mr W. C. Gibson, manager of ■ the Port of New York Authority’s trade development i office in Tokyo, will attend, ; with their director of port • commerce (Mr C. B. O’Hara). Captain A. V. Pearson, nau-

tical advisor to the Comrnon- ; wealth Department of Shipping and Transport, will repI resent the Australian Port ; Authorities’ Association. Mr :J. McConnell, chairman of i the Fremantle Port Authority will assist him. ’ The Australian representa- ' tives of two major British ' ports will also attend. They l are Mr C. L. Webb, for the Port of London Authority, i and Mr P. S. Golding, for the Mersey Docks and Har1 bour Board. f Japanese port and shipt ping official representatives I will include Mr M. Ishiba, f vice director of the Bureau • of Ports and Harbour, Tokyo t Metropolitan Government, Mr , C. Nakanishi, vice president : of the Japan Line, and Mr . H. Toki, senior managing dir- ; ector of the line.