FORTNIGHTLY SHIPMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 4

FORTNIGHTLY SHIPMENTS.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH

MAIL BOATS NEED TO CALL FOR BUTTEk. That the aim of the harbour authorities is to secure a regular service (probably fortnightly) for the direct shipment ° f dairy produce, wa s explained by Mr. C. E. chairman oi the Harbour Board, to a Taranaki Herald representative when speaking of the visit paid to the harbour works on Friday by Captain T. H. Chudley, marine superintendent of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. This involved the provision of such facilities as would induce the shipping companies to send here the Athenic, the Corinthic, and others of the largest vessels which trade to New Zealand. At the present he explained, vessels of the second class, such as tiie R'mutaKa were being sent here. . Coastal carrying- (of daily pioducc would have to go sooner or later and it was desired to -rave the produce, especially the bin, ter, snipped direct in a fortnightly service. The desirability of regular arrival of shipments oil the market made it essential that the mail boats should carry . a good deal of the butter, and so Taranaki could not have a complete service through New Plymouth until the steamers of the first , class were sent here. Captain Chudley had given an assur ance, Mr. Bellringer said, that as soon as the port afforded the facilities necessary for the berthing of those vessels Ins company would do all it could to help

With regard to the progress of the harbour works, Captain Chudley was pleased that the new wharf would be available soon, as it would obviate some of the hold-ups. He appreciated the cliff icuties that the hoard were faced with, in trying to push on with the extensions rapidly, and recognised that they were doing their best. The principal work remaining to be done in connection with the Newton King wharf was the railway connection Mr. Bellringer said. The permanent approach to.the abutment was now in hand, and as soon as the rails were laid, upon which the decking could lie permanently fixed, the wharf would be available.—Herald.