Improved Loading Facilities.
Pig Pens At Awanui
Improved facilities for the shipping of pigs and sheep are now available at the dairy factory wharf at Awanui.
By the new system the animals are passed over a weighing plitlorm into a holding pen and then over a gangway which is hinged so that it can rise or fall to the level of the ship at any state of the tide. The bottoms of the pens have been laid in concrete and the sides timbered and netted. The great convenience which the new loading system offers is illustrated by the fact that when it was used for the first time on Tuesday, October 26, over 90 pigs were loaded in fifteen or twenty minutes, whereas the old method of loading by slings would have taken nearly two hours.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 2
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136Improved Loading Facilities. Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 2
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