CENTENARY OF FIRE BRIGADE

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 17

CENTENARY OF FIRE BRIGADE

This evening, the first official. event of the centennial celebrations of the Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade will be held. A banquet, it will be attended by the Prime Minister (Mr Kirk). , The Lvttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade is primarily a maritime: organisation. Its normal strength is 24 men under Senior Station Officer J. Fogarty, and includes watersiders. Harbour Board staff and shipwrights. These men who work hard during the day, are always on call. Thev fight fires in ships’ holds and hot summer fires in the hills, and sometimes they work in Christchurch. They have the respect cf everyone at the port, and deservediv so. Their wives, too, who also have to make sacrifices are remembered.

Three Dutch ships at Lyttelton together caused comment yesterday but it has happened before. Thev were the Straat Luzon. Leuve Lloyd and Straat Chatham. Japan's Arizona Marti is due today with a heavy load of steel, general cargo and fertiliser. She will load 7000 bales of wool for Japan. The port is busy at present. Hi

Recently, a Lyttelton correspondent. “N.A.,” who is a seaman, asked for a list of New! Zealand - registered vessels: which have disappeared from, ithe Lyttelton scene in comparatively recent years. This is a i tall order, and the list is a ■ formidable one. and is by no i means complete. Ships which have faded out through sale, scrap or natural causes, include the Paroto Toa, Tuhoe, Tainui, Tiroa. Hinemoa. Rangatira (one), Wahine (two) Kaitawa. Maranui, Motu, Holmglen. Kanna, Katui, Karu, Wainui (two), Waitaki (two). x Then there are the Matua, Taveunl. Pakura. Pateke, Gale, Breeze. Squall. Calm River City,

Konini. Kaimai, Waiana, Kauri. > AVaipori, Korowai, Navua.A Maunganui (two). Apamii, Hotu-I' ;nui. Onehunga, Kaimanawa Kai- , ■ toa. Kaitoke. Holmlea (earlier), , Holmwood. Turihau (later Holmbank). Ranginui and Willomee. To these can be added the, : Waiotahi, Kopara, Kawaroa, ■ Aotearoa. Konanda. Waitemata,. Waitomo. Waihemo, Wairimu, • Wairata, Konui. Moanui (earlier.), Taupata, Holmpark, Maurea! (tanker), Karamu. Kokiri, and ] many more. The reason for their disappearance, in the main, was mod- • ernisation—mainly roll-on services and containerisation. ] Today’s “through system of j [transport concept,” notably the Cook Strait rail ferries and rail-: [ways, have accelerated the demise of conventional coastal; • shipping, quite apart from what [has happened in the inter-, colonial and the Pacific trades. iAir services have helped its de-! [mise too. ❖ ❖ ❖ ARRIVALS Straat. Chatham. (5.56 a.m.),] [7544, Capt. H. Koch, Picton (Guthrey). Maheno, (6.6 a.m.), 4510 Capt.: !D. C. Croucher. Wellington • (U.S.S.). Holmlea, (7.5 a.m.). 1053. Capt. ID. Henigan. Wellington (U.5.5.).1 DEPARTURES ■ Wenchow, (12.23 p.m.) 8475,; Capt. J. M. Kelly. Napier (P and: O (N.Z.), Ltd). , Holmlea, (4.50 p.m.), 1053, Capt. D. Henigan, Wellington (U.S.S.). ’ Maheno, (8.37 p.m.), 4510, Capt. D. C. Croucher, Sydney ’ (U.S.S.). ’ Leuve Lloyd, (5.28 p.m.), 9603, ’ Capt. Nicolaas Tillema, Dunedin ■ (Guthrey). EXPECTED ARRIVALS , Arizona Maru, Wellington, today. /Rangatira. Wellington, today. Holmlea, Wellington. April 1. (Nippon Reefer, Auckland, April 1 1. ; Rangatira, Wellington, April 1. I Wanaka, Auckland. April 2. ißangatira, Wellington, April 3. I Hawea. Svdney, April 3. Ata, Tonga, April 4. Timaru Star, Wellington. April 4 Otaki. Brisbane, April 4. Larisa Reisner. San Antonio. 5 April 5. i Novodrushevsk, Wellington, April