SHIPPING ACTIVITY
MANY OVERSEAS VESSELS LINER RANGITANE DELAYED Crowded wharves, with exceptionally busy passenger and cargo trade, presented a scene of activity at Auckland yesterday. There were 13 large overseas ships in port and two vessels, the steamers Cornwall and Fordsdtfle, waited in the stream for berths. The Fordsdale moved alongside a wharf last evening and the Cornwall will berth this morning. % Indications that a port merchant gross tonnage record would be achieved were nullified by the receipt yesterday morning by the New Zealand Shipping Company of telegraphic advice that the liner Rangitane had been prevented by rough weather from clearing Tokomaru Bay to schedule late on Sunday night. The Rangitane was previously expected here in the afternoon and her absence resulted in the tonnage figure being about 8000 tons lower than the standing record. The liner. left for Auckland early yesterday afternoon and will arrive this morning. She will remain at anchor in the stream prob* ably until to-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22933, 11 January 1938, Page 8
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