Ngatoro may be sold

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34031, 20 December 1975, Page 20

Ngatoro may be sold

The Inion Steam Ship Company’s bulk carrier Ngatoro, laid up at Wellington since July, might be sold within the next month. Negotiations for her sale ■were well in hand, said the company's administration i manager (Mr P. Maxwell), yesterday. They might be completed by the end of January. The Ngatoro is one of four "N” class vessels built) -by the company specially for the trans-Tasman pulp, paper, and newsprint trade, working mainly out of Tauranga. These vessels also proved successful in carrying bulk gypsum, and later : steel, back from Australia. The Ngatoro, however, was one of a number of i Union Company vessels to I become a victim of the ■ slump in the Tasman trade, I and has been laid up at i Evans Bay since July 27. .Mr Maxwell said that the main reason for selling the i Ngatoro was the high cost 1 of maintaining an idle vessel i for which there was no im- ! mediate future. An unpredicted storm in i Cook Strait forced I H.M.N.Z.S. Hawea, a fisheries patrol launch, to return to Lyttelton yesterday. The storm broke about 9 p.m. on Thursday, just as the vessel was entering Cook Strait. She had been on a routine trip from Lyt-

telton to the Nelson area. The Navy’s resident commander, Lieutenant-Com-mander K. 1. Knight, said the storm was unexpected. “All of a sudden, the bottom fell out of the barometer.” he said. The launch Was shipping water “right [over the top.” However, I when she turned about to (travel with the weather, she 'began planing at 29 knots. H.M.N.Z.S. Hawea suffered no damage. The salt was washed off her at Lyttelton yesterday, and she will sail again today. ARRIVALS Messiniaka Anagennisis ( ), 17.485. Wellington lU.S.S.k Westbury ( ), 8414. New Plymouth (Shipping Corp, of N.Z.) DEPARTURES N.Z. Aorangi (10.30 a.m.). 9117, Capt. D. Arnoll. Bluff (Shipping Corp, of N.Z.). Kapitan Izotov i ), 4198, Capt. V. Chernysev. Napier ; (Scales). EXPECTED ARRIVALS iStraat Colombo, Dunedin. December 21. JOsco Sailor. December 23. Maheno, Adelaide, December 23. Hawea, Wellington. December 23. Holmdale, Chatham Islands. DecI ember 24. Coastal Trader, from dry dock, December 24. Hawea. Dunedin, December 25. Mataura Nelson. December 25. ■Frysna. Tonga, December 26. PROJECTED DEPARTURES H.M.N.Z.S. Hawea, to sea. today. iMessiniaki Anagennisis. —, today. Plod. Tauranga. today, iNeptune Jade. —. today. Crocus, Timaru, December 22. Hawea. Dunedin. December 23. Maheno Tauranga. December 23.

Straat Colombo. Auckland. December 23. Coastal Trader. —. December 24. Westbury, Dunedin. December 24. VESSELS IN PORT Westbury. Cashin Quay No. 1. Neptune Jade. Gladstone Pier. Plod. No. 3 West. H.M.N.Z.S. Hawea. No. 4 West. Tekoa. No. 6 West. • Crocus. No. 7 East. Messiniaki Anagennisis, oil wharf. Coastal Trader, graving dock.

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