MANY SHIPS IN PORT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 10

MANY SHIPS IN PORT

twelve overseas vessels AT WHARVES A BUSY WATERFRONT Wellington is the busiest port in the Dominion this week. The wharves are crowded with ships great and small, the majority being concerned with the loading of produce for the United Kingdom. As fast as one liner, vacates her berth it is occupied by a fresh arrival and the activity will continue. Yesterday morning the C. and D. liner Port Melbourne sailed for Auckland to complete loading for London, her berth being taken by the Federal liner Middlesex from Liverpool via Auckland. Including the latter ship there were four arrivals of oversea vessels yesterday, the others being the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Rimutaka from London and Southampton, the same company’s Hororata from Bluff and the Union Company’s Waitemata from Pacific Coast ports. Oversea ships were berthed from Taranaki Street Wharf as far as Aotea Quay at Tborndon, three being moored at Pipitea Wharf. Excluding coastal shipping, the fleet of ships in port numbered twelve —Golden Bear, Treworlas, Rimutaka, Westmoreland, Ulimaroa, Cornwall, Northumberland, Middlesex, Hororata. Port Pirie. Kia Ora and Waitemata. Conspicuous among the house-flags and funnels of the oversea ships at the .wharves yesterday morning were those of no fewer than four Federal Line steamers, namely, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Cornwall, and Middlesex. Great quantities of inward and outward cargoes and transhipments are being handled on the waterfront. In addition to about 23,000 bales of wool from the last sale, which is being loaded this week the homeward bound ships are filling up with frozen meat, dairy produce and fruit.' , .