SHIPS IN PORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 10

SHIPS IN PORT

BUSY TIME AHEAD UNLOADING OF CARGOES MANY OVERSEAS VESSELS A holiday will be observed to-day on the waterfront. The only vessel working will be the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua, which will continue unloading cargo from Wost Coast ports of Great Britain. On all other vessels in port cargo work will be suspended for the day. The Royal Mail liner Aorangi will arrive from Vancouver about seven o'clock this morning, but she will land only mail and passengers' baggage. When work is resumed to-morrow morning the port will be very busy, there being nine overseas vessels at the wharves, in addition to four Southern cargo steamers and also the large local coasting fleet. Tho Monowai and Aorangi will be at Prince's Wharf; the Rangitane and Tainui at Queen's Wharf; the Cape of Good Hope and Salvus at King's Wharf; the Rotorua at Central Wharf; the Deebank at Chelsea; and the City of Vancouver at Western Whart. They will all bo unloading cargoes from overseas and in addition the Union Company's steamer Winga£ui will bo unloading general cargo from Southern ports and the colliers Karepo, Kanna and Canopus will be unloading coal from West Coast ports.