BUSY WATERFRONT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 67, 12 December 1932, Page 8

BUSY WATERFRONT

Seven Overseas Liners ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Makura Berths This Morning The Wellington waterfront will be busy again this week after a slack time last week, aud from novi' on until the end of next April, when the export season will be drawing to a close, the port should be consistently busy. Between to-day and next Friday seven overseas vessels, including three, direct-passenger liners bringing nearly 600 passengers and large quantities of mail, and an oil-tanker, are due here. In addition, the Shaw-Savill liner Mahana is at present in port loading for London. Makura. Reports. The Union Company’s R.M.S. Makura, en route from San Francisco to Wellington, via Papeete and Rarotonga, has reported by wireless that she expects to arrive in the stream at 6 o’clock this morning. After pratique has been granted she will berth about 8.30 a.m. at the Taranaki Street Wharf. The Makura has on board 94 passengers, of whom 60 are landing, and brings 940 bags of English and American mall and 40 American parcel receptacles for Wellington. This is the last American and via America English mail to reach New Zealand before Christmas. The last English mail to arrive here before Christmas will be brought by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor-liner Rangitata, which is due at Auckland on December 21. The Makura is timed to leave ‘here again at 3 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney, where she is due next Saturday morning. Two other overseas liners are also due at Wellington to-day. The C. and D. Line steamer Port Hunter is due this morning from Auckland and will berth at the King’s Wharf to discharge New York cargo, and the Federal steamer Huntingdon is due this morning from Auckland and will berth at the Glasgow wharf to load for London. Monovvai To-morrow. The Union Company’s liner Mouowai, which was expected to reach Wellington this afternoon from Melbourne and Sydney, did not clear Sydney until 10 p.m. last Friday, and is now due here at 7 a.m. to-morrow. The Monovvai has on board nearly 300 passengers and brings a large Australian mail. On Wednesday the Shavv-Savill liner lonic is due from London and Southampton via Kingston and the Panama Canal. She has on boarff nearly 200 passengers and brings a quantity of English mail. The Union Company’s chartered motor-tanker O. A. Knudsen is also due here on Wednesday with a cargo of bulk fuel-oil from San Pedro. On Thursday the Union Company’s Waihemo is due from Los Angeles, via Napier, with Pacific Coast cargo to discharge, and on Friday the ShavvSavill motor-ship Taranaki is due froth Auckland with cargo from Glasgow, Liverpool, and Cape Town. In addition the Union Company’s Kiwitea, with cargo from Adelaide, Edithburg, and Melbourne, and the same company’s Kanna, from Newcastle, are both due on Friday. Arrivals Next Week. Between next Sunday, December 18, and Thursday, December 22, a further seven overseas liners are due. Most of these are expected to leave again before Christmas, and from then until the New Year the wharves will be fairIv empty, for the first time for several years, as for the past two ChristmasNew Year weeks the Wellington wharves have been filled to capacity. Early in the New Year, however, the wharves will again quickly resume a busy appearance.