APIA'S LACK OF WHARVES
EFFECT OF HEAVY SWELL.
In the course of an interview at Invercargill, and speaking of Apia, Commodore Hotham, of H.M.S. Chatham, said it was remarkable that in the whole of their 25 years' occupation of Samoa, the Germans could never manage to make- a harbour there. There was no:!; a single wharf at which a launch could berth at low water. Though there was a rise and .fall. of .'only sft., on" account of the heavy swell which swept into the harbour, especially in summer, the Germans' efforts had met with failure. Any cargo „to be landed at the Samoan seaport had to be conveyed from. the ships to the wharf in shallow-bot-tomed boats, and. then only' at high water.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11
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124APIA'S LACK OF WHARVES New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11
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