MANY SHIPS IN PORT
The shipping tonnage at present, in Wellington is.unusually large for this time <-f year, due to no small extent to the prosence in port of the P. and 0. liner Strath naver, which reached here this morning from Auckland in the course of a cruise to the Dominion. There is well over 100,000 tons of shipping berthed at the wharves today, and, although this figure will be reduced by over 22,000 tons when the Strathnaver sails this evening for Sydney, the total will still be very large. Excluding the Strathnaver there arc sis overseas strips now in Wellington, these being H.M.A.S. Australia, the R.M.S. Makura, 'which arrived here todny from Sydney and is to, leave toniaht for fiu Francisco: the lWhtritata, Matnro(i,_ Be:ireoch, ant! Port Brisbane. In addition 1o these vessels there is also a larg" nuanti'v of const*! ehippiufi in port, and also the two Kew Zealand naval station sloops Leith and Laburnum, and the Government, lighthouse steamer Matai. Most- of tho ships will be remaining in port •. over Christinas. -. • . _.. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 151, 24 December 1934, Page 9
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175MANY SHIPS IN PORT Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 151, 24 December 1934, Page 9
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