Holmdale to get trip to Rarotonga

Press, 24 June 1978, Page 24

Holmdale to get trip to Rarotonga

The coaster Holmdale is t i scheduled to leave for the ! Chatham Islands this after- i noon with a change of masters, from Captain H C. F., ’ i Hunt to Captain E, Warner. The voyage is the start of|< | an interesting series tor the ! • : 17-year-old ship which will |i [eventually take her to Rarotonga. This trip she will be tak- ' ing prefabricated houses to I the Chathams under a bare- < beat charter by the Union Steam Ship Company for the 1 Internal Affairs Department. ’ She is >e back at LyttelI ton on June 30. and will [ then go to Onehunga to load ’sugar for Lyttelton. Her charter will then be taken over bv the Foreign Affairs Department for the voyage to Rarotonga A Reference in this column I yesterday to the cost of empty containers prompted ) several telephone calls desi cribing the success story of la Dunedin firm engaged in container manufacture. The company started by manufacturing 1100 contain-1 ers for the Shipping Corpor-

ation of New Zealand, and has now branched into the export field. One of their products, a Cooltainer, was on a railway waggon at Lyttelton yesterday, and the standard seemed’to equal the nearby overseas containers. An overseas order for 150 containers for Robert Skula. of Munich, is nearly corm pleted. and an order of containers for the Farrell Lines, is coming off the production line at about 20 a week. arrivals Nil. DEPARTURES Nil. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Holmdale, Chatham Island*, to. day. Lake Eyre. Australia, todav Union Hobart. Wellington, today. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Hobart. Wellington, today. Taulotto 11. sea. today. Kolle D. Nauru. June 25 Tongariro, Wellington. June 25. VESSELS IN PORT Coastal Ranger. No. 2 West. Lake Eyre. No. 2 East. i Holmdale. No. 3 .East. ’Smolny, No. 3 West. ’Toa Moana No. 7 East Cielo Di Salerno, Oil Wharf.