BACK TO NORMAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26693, 12 February 1948, Page 8

BACK TO NORMAL

WATERFRONT ACTIVITY An abnormally busy period on the Dunedin waterfront, extending over the past 10 days, ended yesterday with the sailing of three vessels—the coastal tanker for Lyttelton, Glenpark for Whyalla in South Australia, and Marabank for Nauru. Another freighter, the City of Dieppe, finished unloading last night and will go to Port Chalmers this morning to enter the Otago dock for survey, leaving only two ships at the Dunedin wharves. The Weybank is'expected to arrive at Ravensbourne to-day to ■ discharge sulphur from Texas. Port Chalmers waterside workers who have been employed at Dunedin during the past week, were not required yesterday. Carriers were afforded an opportunity to attack the task of emptying wharf sheds of cargo without having their efforts retarded by the arrival of more imports. In sharp contrast to the activity at Dunedin, the Port Chalmers wharves during the past two weeks have been bare of shipping. The lull at the lower port, however, will be broken by the docking of the City of Dieppe and the arrival of the Pakeha on Saturday to load frozen meat for the United Kingdom.