Goldfsnder Due With Phosphate Tomorrow

Northern Advocate, 29 November 1948, Page 5

Goldfsnder Due With Phosphate Tomorrow

THE motor ship Goldfmder, bound for Whangarei with the first direct cargo of phosphate from Sfax to be discharged in the port, was sighted off Cape Reinga at 11 a.m. She is expected to berth at Port Whangarei at 7 a.m. tomorrow after receiving her clearance into the port. The general manager of the Northern Steamship Company (Captain A. G. Hardy) will be present to take delivery of the ship, which was purchased by his company for use in coastal trade in New Zealand.

The Goldfinder, which is a motoi vessel of 660 tons gross, was built in Germany in 1938, and has been operating in Eire. .

Her voyage across the Indian Ocean from Colombo to Fremantle took r month owing to delays caused by bad weather.

She has been several months on the voyage, which includes the call ai Sfax in North Africa for the phosphate Cargo.

Part of the cargo will be unloaded directly into railway trucks and the remainder shipped to local consignees by truck. As the ■Ranginui is expected in Whangarei early tomorrow morning in time to commence unloading at 8 a.m there will be an extra labour call for 23 men in addition to the members of the Whangarei Watersiders’ Union

While she was in the Red Sea her steering gear broke down, and it was repaired by two seamen who were in constant danger of their lives from sharks.