NAURU ISLAND.
NO SHELTERED HARBOUR. steamersTdelayed. (By Telegraph.—Special to “Standard.”) AUCKLAND, Aug. 14. The cost of Nauru Island phosphates is considerably increased owing to the long delay experienced by steamers loading at the island. There is no sheltered harbour, and the steamers have to load at a mooring buoy anchored in very deep water and exposed to heavy ocean swells. During stormy weather and when the swell is severe a loading steamer has to leave the mooring and put to sea until conditions improve. The steamer Lady Lewis, which reached Auckland from Nauru yesterday with 7600 tons of phosphates, was delayed the island for three weeks before the. cargo was loaded. Only one vessel can load at a time, and when the Lady Lewis left for Auckland there were five steamers drifting off the island awaiting their turn to load.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 6
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140NAURU ISLAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 6
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