SHIPPING NEWS

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33096, 11 December 1972, Page 13

SHIPPING NEWS

Wool handling for export

One of Lyttelton's most valuable assets is its wool export potential, and a 52-year-old Sumner man who manages Shaw Savill's huge modern wool store on the Cashin Quay reclamation, plays a major part in this work. He is Mr K. G. Richdale, who was educated at Otago Boys' High School and first employed by the Westport Coal Company, Ltd, in Dunedin. Mr Ricndale has been employed by Shaw Savill- and Albion, Ltd, for a quarter of a century.

Mr Richdale is an enthusiast for his work and for Lyttelton’s maritime future. From the wool flow angle, Mr. Richdale has sound figures to prove what is happening in his own particular field.

The Shaw Savill store, one of the best equipped in New Zealand. is by no means the only store connected with the port’s activities, but even so, it has an impressive record. Mr Richdale said that when full, the store will hold 16,000 bales. On some occasions he has had 14,000 bales inside. During a normal year, an average of 90,000 bales of wool for export passes through the store. Mr Richdale said he had an excellent key staff of 12 persons, and a good casual staff which fluctuated according to the deands of wool. Wool comes from brokers, wool scourers, and meatworks, by rail and road, with the accent on road transport today. In the store it is compressed into double dumps, but about a third of the quota received is unitised (up to a 12bale maximum).

Handling wool is heavy work, but today’s trend of mechanisa-: tion, unitising, and streamlining makes for efficiency and better handling. Mr Richdale has overall responsibility for the stacking, storing, sorting, and allocation of woo! for different vessels. He frequently boards vessels loading wool, just to see for himself what is going on. Preassembly of wool in the Cashin Quay transit sheds, handy to Shaw Savill’s store, has been an outstanding success. Mr Richdale says. A depot such as Shaw Savill’s is the last link in the wool export chain before it goes on the ship, and Mr Richdale finds con-. siderable. interest in mixing with; shipping folk. He has also to j please suppliers, stevedores, and everybody else connected with the operation.’

In -addition to the many other duties involving the storage and export of wool, heat testing of bales because of fire danger, and coring (sampling for moisture content), must be carried out. All round, Mr Riehdale has great faith in Lyttelton’s wool export potential and is alive to the increasingly new trends in its handling.

Mr Richdale is the secretary of the Lyttelton Rotary Club. He is intensely interested in welfare work, too. During the Second World War. Mr Richdale served with the YMC A, attached to the New Zealand Armv in the Pacific, Italy, and finally Japan. A married man with three children, he has one other hobbv —cars. He is a member of the Armstrong Sidde- , ley Car Club, which caters for those with classic cars.

ARRIVALS Saturday Rangatira (6.34 a.m.). 6387 (Cgpt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). Sunday i Rangatira (6.43 a.m.), 9387 iCapt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wei lington (U.S.S.i. : Holmlea (7.3 a.m.i, 1053. Capt E. Savage, Wellington (U.S.S.). Jelunga (8 a.m.), 7432, Capt. P iG. Farrell, Timaru (P and C !(N.Z.I, Ltd). Hawea (8.25 a.m.i, 2926. Capt R. H. Stewart, Sydney (U.S.S.I. DEPARTURES Saturday Rangatira (3.50 a.m.i, 9387 ICapt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wei lington (U.S.S.). (Daylight.) Holmdale (2 p.m.l, 911. Capt E. R. Warner, Chathams (U.S.S.I Japan Rimu (6.32 p.m.l, 9557 Capt. Y. Kamaura, Dunedin (U.S.S.I. Sunday Rangatira (8.43 p.m.l, 9387 Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wei lington (U.S.S.I. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Erne, Wellington, today.

Wanaka. Auckland, today

Meisei Maru, Bluff, today. Wenchow. Auckland, Dec. 12. Koraki, Tauranga. Dec. 12. Zelande, Wellington, Dec. 12. Rangatira, Wellington, Dec. 12. Podgora. Dunedin. Dec. 13. Rangatira. Wellington, Dec. 13. Teesta. Wellington. Dec. 14. Cape Sable Christmas Island Dec. 14. Wellington Star, Wellington. Dec 17. Canterbury Star, Auckland, Dec 18. Haparangi. Wellington, Dec. 19 Ata, Tonga December 20. ■Torrens, Wellington, Dec. 21, Hauraki. Wellington, Dec. 21. Belita, Ocean Isiand. Dec. 22. Maheno. Wellington, Dec. 22. Straat Colombo, Napier. Dec. 22 Straat Clement, Napier, Dec. 22 Kanto Maru, Auckland, Dec. 23 Havana Maru, Wellington, Dec 24. Straat Clarence, Auckland, Dec 24. Neder Rijn, Wellington. Dec. 24 U.S C.G.C. Burton Island, U.S.A. Dec. 24. Marko Marulic. Auckland, Dec 27. Cedric. South America. Jan. 2. Kashima Maru. Christmas Islands. Janharv 4. U.S.N.S. Mirfak. Davisville, Jan Tongariro. Wellington. Jan. 6. Japan Totara. Wellington, Jan 7. Levernbank, Wellington, Jan. 7. Neder Lek. Wellington, Jan. 8 PROJECTED DEPARTURES Wanaka. Dunedin, today. Holmlea, Wellington, today. Rangatira, Wellington, Dec., 1! (daylight). Hawea, Dunedin, Dec. 12. Wenchow, Tauranga. Dec. 12. Erne, Dunedin, Dec. 12 Jelunga, Napier, Dec. 13. Meisei Maru. Napier, Dec. 13. Koraki. Dunedin. Dec. 13. Rangatira, Wellington, Dec. 13. Podgora, Napier, Dec. 14. Zelande, Dunkirk, Dec. 15. Teesta. Napier, Dec. 16. Cape Sable, Bluff, Dec. 19. Canterbury Star, Bluff, Dec. 20. Wellington Star, Hull, Dec. 20. Ata, Timaru, Dec. 20. Haparangi. Port Chalmers, Dec 21. Hauraki, Timaru. Dec. 22. Maheno. Sydney, Dec 22 Torrens. Dunedin. Dec. 22, ■Belita. Napier, Dec. 27 I Kanto Maru, —, Dec. 28. 1 Straat Colombo. Tauranga, Dec 28. Straat Clement. Dunedin, Dec 28. Straat Clarence, Tauranga, Dec 28. Kashima Maru, Timaru, Jan. 6. Tongariro. Timaru, Jan. 8. U.S.N.S. ‘Mirfak. Antarctica, Jan 8. Levernbank, Dunedin. Jan. 8. VESSELS IN PORT Jelunga, No. 1 Cashin Quay. Hawea, G.P.W. Holmlea, No. 2 West. Other ports

AUCKLAND £ Saturday.—Arrived: Hamiltoi , (6.38 a m.), Marsden Point ’Shota Rustaveli (8.20 a.m. 1 Tahiti; Waikare (7 p.m. Nukualofa; Waimea (9.55 p.m. i Apiau Shinsho (11.18 p.m. Japan. Sailed: Straat Lago (12.30 a.m.i, Tauranga; Mataur L (12.25 p.m.), Pieton; Teest I- (12.30 p.m.), Wellington; Wanak (1.53 p.m.), Lyttelton: Luhesan(l.ss p.m.), Papeete; Woomer 1. (4.22 p.m.), Sydney; Katea (10.4 1- p.m.), Portland. Sunday —Arrived: Zaida (12.3 t. a.m.), Tauranga; Marama (9.2 a.m.i, Melbourne; Wonosob (11.45 a m.), Antofagusta; Did D (3.23 p.m ), Bluff; Tarawera (8.3 p.m.), Lyttelton. Sailed: Shot t. Rustaveli (1.30 a.m.), Sydney. TIMARU Saturday.—Sailed: Awanui (1 ia.m.), Mount Maunganui; Parer 1(4.10 p.m.), Wanganui; Jelung 7,1(6.40 p.m.), Lyttelton; Leuv 1! Lloyd (7.10 p.m.), Dunedin. Sunday.—Arrived: Tawanui ( t.ia.m.), Auckland. ’■! DUNEDIN ’ i Saturday.—Arrived: Britis ‘’(Tenacity (8.20 a.m.), Matsde Point; Columbus Australia (11.2 . a.m.i, Australia. 1’ Sunday.—Arrived: Leuve Lloy ’■ (7.15 a.m.), Timaru; Japan Rim (9.15 am.), Lyttelton. Sailec British Tenacity (5 p.m.), Man den Point.