BUSY WATERFRONT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 135, 4 March 1929, Page 10

BUSY WATERFRONT

RUSH OF OVERSEAS LINERS BIG FLEET IN PORT HOMEWARD BOUND CARGOES What old sailors would describe as a “sight of fine ( ships” is to be seen along the Wellington waterfront to-day, when no fewer than eleven overseas vessels will be in port. The export season is now at its height, and practically every loading berth will be occupied this week. .Sunday promenaders of the wharves were keenly interest '1 in the sight of tl— numerous ships in port yesterday, which included nresentatives of all the oversea shipping companies’ fleets. Apart from the numerous coastal and ii. tercolonial traders the ships in port were: —Kia Ora (Shaw, Savin' and Albion Company 1 Ruahi (New Zealand Shipping Company), Argyllshire (New Zealand Shipping Company), Northumberland (Federal Line), Westmoreland (Federal Line), Port Melbourne (Commonwealth and Dominion Line), and Treworlas (A. and A. Line). The fleet will be increased to eleven overseas ships some time to-day, when the Cornwall (Federal Line), the Golden Bear (O. and O. Line), and the oil-tankers Ampullaria (Shell Company) and Orkanger (Atlantic-Union Company) are due. The rush of shipping will continue for some time. Other overseas ships due this week are the C. and D. Line’s Port Pirie, the Canadian Conqueror, the Waitemata, and the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Hororata to-mor-row or on Wednesday, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Rimutaka from London, and the Federal Line's Middlesex from Liverpool via Auckland on Thursday. The Pipiriki (Scales Line), which is loading wool for London, is also due this week. Procession of Homeward-Bounders. At the present time there are eleven large oversea liners loading at New Zealand ports for London. Of these the Kia Ora, Northumberland, Argyllshire and Port ,Pirie •will sail finally from Wellington' this week. The Port Melbourne and Hororata i ill go on to Auckland to complete. During the last fifteen days, nine large ships have left New Zealand ports for the United Kingdom and are now scattered in a long procession between the Dominion and the Panama Canal. Furthest away of these ships are the Port 'Hobart, Cumberland. and Corinthic, which sailed during the week ended February 16. Then follow the Port Caroline, Mahana, Anglo-Chilean, Mamilius, the Port Alma, which, left Wellington on Thursday, and the Tairoa, ~'hich sailed yesterday morning. The productivity of thousands' of Dominion farms forwarding cargoes of wool, frozen meat, butter, cheese, fruit and other primary products worth millions of pounds, is represented by this, great fleet of Homeward bound ships. ‘