PORT CHALMERS NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21530, 30 December 1931, Page 3

PORT CHALMERS NEWS

A QUIET PERIOD Although a fair amount of work is being carried out at the Union Steam Ship Company’s repair works and Messrs Stevenson and Cook’s foundry, there has been very little activity in the business area during the past few days. _A large number of residents are spending the holidays at various places outside the borough, and this accounts in a large measure for the almost deserted appearance of the streets. Most of the trawlers are laid up for the holidays, the crews, for the most part, having joined the ranks of the holiday-makers. The borough has been extremely quiet, and nothing has occurred to claim the attention of the police. WOOL FOR SHIPMENT The last load of wool for shipn’ient by oversea steamers reached Port Chalmers on Monday. More than 8000 bales have been dumped and stored in Messrs John Mill and Co.’s shed and the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s shed on the export wharf during the past few weeks. The first consignment will be loaded by the G. H. Scales’s chartered steamer Benlawers, which is due at Port Chalmers on Friday from Timaru. The Federal Line steamer Cumberland and the Shaw, Savill Company’s Tairoa will load the bulk of the wool early in January. The Benlawers will proceed to Dunkirk, Hull and London, the Cumberland to London and West Coast ports of Great Britain, and the Tairoa to London. The three vessels will make Port Chalmers the final loading port.