EMPTY BERTHS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 110, 3 February 1930, Page 6

EMPTY BERTHS

WATERFRONT’S YA R YIN G appearfance SATURDAY’S DEARTH OF SHIPS Wellington is very well supplied with wharves, which oil.rare been,sions, however, are. not capable of accommodating all the vessels in port. On equally rai’O occasions, those same wharves look very empty and very lonely, and Saturday was one of those days. Looking down from the higher part of The Terrace on Saturday morning on to the two miles and a half of wharves, they seemed to look rather strange arid forlorn. The wharves were there, but there was nothing at them and the big cranes towered up over empty berths, for practically the only vessels in port were the three ferry steamers, the’ Maori, Arahura and Tamahine, and the Union Company’s new cargo steamer Karepo, which during the course of the day wandered from wharf to «wharfi as if seeking, but not finding, Its usual companions, now all absent for some unknown reason. At the Clyde Quay Wharf was the Union Company’s Waikoualtl, and out of sight at Miramar the Frances Massey, but with thb exception of one or two small coastal fry, that was all. A Transformation. Yesterday, however, the deserted wharves began to regain their usual appearance. During the night the Kanna and Kaimai had arrived from Gfeymouth, the Kairflnga from Portland and the Canadian Highlander 1 from Port Chalmers, and early in the morning the Turakina arrived from Lyttelton,. Burly, in the afternoon the Shaw, Savill liner Tainui arrived from Bluff, closely followed by the City of Wellington from New York, via Auckland and Napier, and the AngloCanadian from Port Pirie. To-day the number of oversea vessels will be still further added to. The tanker British Glory is due early this morning from San Pedro,, the Coptic from Port Chalmers, and the Golden Cloud from Los Angeles, via Auckland. So the wharves vary, one day they are empty, the next they are full, but it will in all probability be many months before they again are as empty as they were on Saturday.