FEW HOURS IN PORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 8

FEW HOURS IN PORT

STEAMER’S SMALL CARGO £2866 FOR ONE BAG OF MAIL. AUCKLAND, July 28. A stay in port of about five hours was made by the American steamer Golden Coast, which arrived at Auckland from Los Angeles yesterday with cargo from Pacific Coast ports. The vessel arrived at 12.45 o’clock and after medical inspection in the stream she berthed at Prince’s Wharf nearly an hour later to unload about 150 tons of dried fruits, paraffin wax. lubricating oils and other general cargo. Cargo operations were finished by six o’clock in the evening and she then resumed her voyage to Wellington and Australia. The Golden Coast is owned by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company, which maintains a monthly cargo service from Pacific Coast ports to New Zealand. The company, which is a branch of the Oceanic Company’s Mat son Line, receives a mail subsidy for the cargo steamers running to New Zealand, the subsidy being at the rate of about 10s 6d a nautical mile, at par rate, which works out at about £2866 a voyage. The subsidy was easily earned by the Golden Coast on her present voyage because she had only one small bag of mail from San Pedro.