SHIPPING RETURNS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 9

SHIPPING RETURNS

DECREASE IN JUNE HARBOUR BOARD FIGURES At the last meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board it was reported that during June one British warship, two Royal mail steamers, 20 oversea vesesls, nine intercolonial vessels, 2 • coastal vessels, together with 508 local coastal vessels, making a grand total of 565 vessels of 314,731 gross ton.' visited Auckland. As compared with the corresponding period last year, the large merj chant shipping showed a decrease of | seven vessels, and local coastal rc- ’ turns a decrease of 15 vesesls. j The Takapuna Borough Council ! wrote asking the board to receive a j deputation to discuss the question of j improvements to the Bayswater j wharf. A copy of a letter from the • Bayswater-Belmont Women's Societ. : requesting that a breakwind or fen<_« I' be erected on the Bayswater wharf * - a protection in rough weather, was also received. It was resolved to receive a deputation at the next meeting of the board J in committee. ! The Franklin County Council ad--1 vised that it had hern arranged take a poll of ratepayers on the pro- ’ posed loan for Pollock Wharf on j August ii The harbourmaster at Manuka ■ Harbour reported that a request h;ot been received from scow owners and others, asking that a light be installed on the western end of Puketutu Island. He stated that owing to power liner being too far away. it would be cheaper to erect a light on a site at Cape Horn. The engineer was asked to report.