IJust as there has been a marked variation in the type of shipping visiting the Port of Wellington during the past sixty years, so tho facilities provided by the Harbour Board have improved during the period. At top and bottom, on left, are views of the Queen's Wharf in the early days of steam, and top right is a view of Evans Bay, showing the site of the slipway, marked X. t The centra picture shows a section of the wharves as they are to-day, when harbour ferries, inter-Island express, and overseas vessels of heavy ' "tonnage regularly occupy them. The Makura is seen in the Jubilee floating dock (on left), while other views show,the Hikitia (float, ing crane), the tug Tola, cool storage power house, wool dumping, handling coal and fruit, the oil wharf at Miramar, and some of the J frthcg facilities provided by %hp Harbour Bomrd^
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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148IJust as there has been a marked variation in the type of shipping visiting the Port of Wellington during the past sixty years, so tho facilities provided by the Harbour Board have improved during the period. At top and bottom, on left, are views of the Queen's Wharf in the early days of steam, and top right is a view of Evans Bay, showing the site of the slipway, marked X. t The centra picture shows a section of the wharves as they are to-day, when harbour ferries, inter-Island express, and overseas vessels of heavy ' "tonnage regularly occupy them. The Makura is seen in the Jubilee floating dock (on left), while other views show,the Hikitia (float, ing crane), the tug Tola, cool storage power house, wool dumping, handling coal and fruit, the oil wharf at Miramar, and some of the J frthcg facilities provided by %hp Harbour Bomrd^ Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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