CRUISE OF ROSAURA

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 11

CRUISE OF ROSAURA

A Call at Okarito

The motor-yacht Rosaura owned by Lord Moyne, who is visiting New Zealand with a party of guests, anchored in the roadstead off the mouth of the Okarito Harbour, Westland, on Wednesday, according to private advice received in Auckland. Lord Moyne and a party landed at the Okarito Wharf from one of the yacht’s launches and left later ou a visit to the Franz Josef Glacier, 15 miles away. The message stated that the conditions on the bar were good. The Rosaura left Wellington late on Monday afternoon on a cruise to the West Coast Sounds. Improvement works being carried out. by an Auckland company with the object of opening the harbour to navigation have made the visit of Lord Moyne to the Westland port possible. Seventy years ago Okarito was an important port and was visited regularly by trading vessels, but subsequently it was closed by the action of the sea. The Auckland company, which has secured rights over large areas of timber lands, is now carrying out works designed to make the port navigable to ocean-going vessels. The works include the construction of a training wall approximately 800 feet long, which will have the effect of directing the whole force of the outgoing current to one point and thus open and maintain a deep, and permanent channel.