ON THE WAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 11

ON THE WAY

NEW HARBOUR DREDGE

TASMAN OR SOMEWHERE

• The Wellington Harbour Board's new dredge Kerimoana is somewhere on the way to New Zealand, and should, in fact, be showing up at the Heads very soon now—perhaps today or tomorrow, or next week, for dredges will not be bustled..

The Kerimoana—a particularly apt name, for it means to "dig in the sea" —left the fitting docks of the builders, Messrs,. Ferguson Bros. (Port Glasgow) on March 15, and since then nothing official has .been heard of her by the Harbour Board, but that is nothing out of the ordinary. The contract provides for the delivery of the dredge at Wellington, and when she arrives she arrives. When the Whakarire (now' the property of the Napier Harbour Board) was on her way out to Wellington'not a Whisper was heard of her until word came that she had run into minor trouble somewhere north of Australia.

■ The Kerimoana must by now have passed the risks of the long voyage, for she left-Colombo on May 25 or 26, and was due at Townsville about June 2, and the 'estimate of her steaming time to Wellington gave June 15 or 16 as the arrival date. • / ■■,'„>• A voyage from Glasgow to New Zealand in a bucket dredge is.not so good, for even with top hamper reduced, as much as possible these are not pleasant sea boats, but the Kerimoana is very trim. She is not a bucket or pump dredge, but is classed at Lloyd's as an "Al grab hopper dredger." Still, for all her comparative trimness she,is no flyer, and is still proceeding to Wellington.