STORAGE ACCOMMODATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10559, 9 April 1920, Page 2

STORAGE ACCOMMODATION

INADEQUATE ON AUCKLAND WHARVES. , . ■ Lack of storage space in the wharf sheds; and lack of labour to unload the ships which are occupying every corner Of the wharves, are a.t present causing much inconvenience to local shipping agents (states the -‘'Star"). The second disability da only temporary. due to a number of the workers being still, absent on the, Easter holidays, that have been prolonged a little; but'the first is, in some measure, the result of the action Of the large importing firms in using the whaff sheds as warehouses. A ease in point is that of the Tainui. This vessel. arrived from Home on Good Friday, with rather more than 1300 tons of general cargo to discharge here. Every effort has been made-to unload her and get her away, but the shed on the Queen’s wharf, into which her cargo is being unloaded, is so full that her discharge has to he kept in proportion with , the speed—no very great one —at which the local importers are taking delivery of the goods. (‘ln .fact,” -said one of the wharf officials this morning, “they look on the wharf sheds as a kind of cheap warehouse. _ where they can keep thbir stock until they ‘have found purchasers for it. Let the storage- fees he doubled, and you will see how quickly the sheds are cleared.” -