SHIPPING PORT OF TIMARU

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23258, 20 July 1945, Page 2

SHIPPING PORT OF TIMARU

Coastal Trade ; WAINUI WORKING TO-DAY I Dm’ hero from Dunedin, rhe Wainui is scheduled to star. work tin:-. I morning, loading for Napier and GisI borne. She should clear to-nithl. when she will go back to Oamaru before sailing for North Island ports. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Wainui. Dunedin To-day Korowai, Lyttelton j u j v 23 Storm. Lyttelton July 24 Karitane, Dunedini Earlv " PROJECTED DEPARTURES Wainui. Oamaru To-day Korowai, Auckland July 23 Storm, Wellington July 24 Karitane, Wellington Early ” NOTES Wellington cargo is being prepared for the Storm, due here about Tuesday from Lyttelton. At present she is expected to clear the same day. From Lyttelton, where she is now. the Korowai will proceed to Timaru She is set down to lift Auckland consignments here next week, returning to that port direct. The Karitane loads at Bluff and Dunedin before reaching here, where Wellington cargo will be ready for her early arrival. The condition of the Westport bar is better at the present time than it has been for some years as the result, of a fresh in the Buller River and an easterly set scouring out sand deposits. The depth on the bar at low tide is 15 feet 6 inches and at high spring tide 25 feet. With the exception of three days when the bar was not workable. there has been no hold-up of shipping at Westport for some weeks, and all colliers have loft, with full cargoes.