Busy Day on Waterfront

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27059, 19 April 1949, Page 8

Busy Day on Waterfront

SHIPPING

The waterfront will present a busy scene when the watersiders resume work this morning after the Easter holiday break. Five ships are waiting to be worked, and another three are scheduled to arrive to-day. The passenger and cargo liner Malaroa is due at Port Chalmers at 9 o’clock tins' morning to disembark 43 passengers and also unload 1800 tons of general cargo. ’ She is expected to sail for Lyttelton on Saturday to complete her discharge. The Union Company's Karetu, which berthed at Victoria wharf before Easter, should finish her discharge of 1400 tons of general Australian cargo and sail for Bluff, and thence Sydney, today.

High Water.—St. Clair, 844 a.m., 8.50 p.m.; Taiaroa Head, 8.24 a.m., 9 p.m.; Port Chalmers, 9.4 a.m., 9.40 p.m.; Dunedin, 9.34 a.m., 10.10 p.m. The Sun Rises at 7.18 a.m.; sets at 5.56 p.m.

Phases of the Moon. —Last quarter: To-morrow, 3.27 p.m. New moon: April 28, 8.2 p.m. First quarter: May 6, 9.33 a.m. Full moon; May 13, 0.51 a.m.

BERTHAGE LIST FOR TO-DAY Port Dunedin Victoria wharf Karetu Victoria wharf Wainui Rattray street Waiana Rattray street Holmdalc Rattray street John Williams VI Rattray street

EXPECTED ARRIVALS Mataroa, Southampton, to-day. Kopua, Coft's Harbour, to-day. Waitaki, Melbourne, to-day. Fort Spokane, London, to-morrow. British Resolution, Persian Gulf, Apl. 22, Storm, Wellington, April 27. Ivybank, Mexican Gulf, April 30. Hurunui, Lyttelton, May 2. Tridale. Lyttelton, May 5. Stafford, St. John, May 9. Kaituna, New York, May 12. Nivicella, Miri, May 13. Waiwera, Liverpool, May 14. Haparangi, Liverpool, May 21. Sydney Star, Bluff, May 26. Norfolk, Liverpool, May 26.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES Karetu, Bluff, Sydney, to-day. Wainui, Oarn., Tim., Nap., Gis., to-morroW, John Williams VI, Timaru, to-morrow. Piri, Greyniouth, to-morrow. Waiana, Bluff, April 21. Holmdale, Oam., Wgtn., Wang., April 21, Port Dunedin, Wellington, April 23. Mataroa, Lyttelton. April 23. OTHER DOMINION PORTS Wellington.—Arrived: British Resolution (7.10 a.m.), from Abadan; Rivercrest (6'.45 p.m.), from Port Lincoln. Sailed: Mataroa (6 a.in.), .for Port Chalmers.

OVERSEAS MOVEMENTS HAMPTON ROADS, April 17— Sailed Waimana, for London.