PORT OF WELLINGTON
“SHIPPING CENTRE OF DOMINION.” Dr. Thacker, M.P., discussing Lyttelton harbour improvement schemes, said that ships were getting bigger, and from evidence on the subject, ha had come to the conclusion that there was a grave danger of Wellington becoming tho real shipping centre for New Zealand. At the meeting of the Harbour Board, Mr Williams had stated that, fully loaded, the Corinthic, the lonic, the Athcnic and the Megantic would not bo able to get out of Lyttelton. As a member of the Harbour Board, ha wished that informs' tion made public.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10508, 9 February 1920, Page 4
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95PORT OF WELLINGTON New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10508, 9 February 1920, Page 4
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