DELAYED BY FOG

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 8

DELAYED BY FOG

SHIPS OUTSIDE HEADS

A . LONG WAIT

A heavy fog on' Saturday evening had the effect of • preventing a number of ships from entering the "Wellington Heads yesterday. Fortunately the ships did not miss a working day, all being able to enter port in the early hours this morning.

A number of vessels, including the Lyttelton a,nd Nelson ferry steamers, were, able to enter port up to 11.30 a.m. yesterday. Two overseas vessels, the 17,000-ton motor-liner Dangitata,/ from Napier, and the Canadian Conqueror, from Lyttelton, were unable to enter the Heads early in the day, the Canadian Conqueror arriving off the Heads at 7 a.m. yesterday, and the Eangitata well before that. The small coastal motor-ships Kapuni and. Boston, from Patea, and the Union Company cargo steamer Kaimai, from Greymou'th, were also held up outside the Heads. ' The coastal motor-ship Awahou, from Gisborne, was not delayed unduly by the fog, as she risked going through it, arriving in port at 8.10 p.m. The Picton ferry steamer Tamahine arrived off jthe Heads at 9 p.m., after experiencing fog in the strait crossing, and as the fog was still thick, she .-joined the other ships. The Wanganella, on her maiden voyage from Sydney, could have been in port at 9.30 p.m. yesterday had she not been delayed by the fog. '.. J .

The fog had lifted slightly toward evening, but afterwards came down as thickly as before. However, it began to clear again about 10.30 p.m., and the-Tamahine led the way into port, arriving at her berth at 11.30 p.m. A number of people had waited on the wharf for the ferry steamer since 9 p.m. The Rangitata arrived in port at 12.10 a.m. to-day, the Kaimai at 12.20 am., the Kapuni at 12.30 a.m., the Canadian Conqueror at 1.5 a.m., the Foxton.at 1.5 a.m., and the Wanganella at 2.10 a.m.