HAURAKI RESUMING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 11

HAURAKI RESUMING

EXPENSIVE REPAIR WORK

'■\Tlie v'Mpairs^tb;:t^^ motor."bargb. ship: Hauraki at Auckland occupieel; longer than was anticipated, arid have prov-ed. very', costly, but have at ~length been completed,' : ,arid :.;thd vessel is to leave Auckland to-day ;f or. Vancouver to ebmmenco loading on the Pacific Coast of America.for New Zea-; land' and': ' Australia.' ,;:■ -CSiptain:; A.!-'T: Norton arrived at Auckland'from.!;Sydney on Monday to take command ;of the vessel.!. -.. ' . ;i-,, ', : ..., ;, ■-.-■;:.'■:!'; The'Hauraki grounded, at New Plymouth ,'on 21st February and was delayed; thore, for -five'■ days while ..temporary repairs-were effected.. Arriving at Auckland 011 Ist March, ,she had to havo over 7000, tons of cargo unloaded, much of it to be transhipped to Napior and Australia.' She was tlocked on 9th. March .after -already causing-, a. -big loss, through, being out of eoiumission and.necessitating her cargo being .transhipped. ■.■.-'■ . Up till last Monday she had been in dock for eight 'weeks, and it is stated that tho bill .for the docking alone will amount to well over £200"0. In addition, the docking of other1 vessels' in connection with their'annual overhaul and survey has/been held up, and tho Waipahi and Kainiau;iwa .had to bo rccommissioncd without being docked. The company's tanker' Otokia, which discharged a cargo of fuel oil at Wellington, has been delayed';here while waiting for the; work on' tho Hauraki to- be .completed, so that she could go into dock.. '■■-.." ' ''