ADVANCE OAMARU.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12187, 7 June 1907, Page 7

ADVANCE OAMARU.

successful Harbour Improve-

ments.

(Par Unifctd Pre«s Anoriati**.) OAMAKU. Ji-ne 7. To-day i« .i red letter day in the history )f tlwj port of Oamaru. Following on the 'omoletion of the Holmes wharf the Shaw Savill a.nd Albion Company's Waiwera. >3?w ton* was safely berthed tliis morning:. Fhe Mayor. Chairman and members of th* Harbour Board met the vessel and accord •d the oaptain an official welcome, the offi •e^e afterwards being entertained at luncheon in the Star and Garter Hotel. It is "onr yeare since the last direct s-teamei •ailed ;it. Oamaru. Iv June, 1903. th« tfaori shipped 10,570 carcase* and 36* ftiarters of beef. The Waiwera will take •way on the present occasion a record shipment of over 20,000 carcases. The successful handling* of the Waiwera means that jpwards of 20 Home steamers, which • ltherto could not do so. will be -xhlc tc make Oamaru a port of call. The new iarbonr arrangements will permit the ™-|nle of the meat frozen in Oamam to be ihipped direct. Last season upwards of 106,000 sheep and lambs were sent from the ocal freezing works, only 20,699 of which *ere shipped at this port. From the lsl if July, 1906, to the. Bth of June, 1907. $8,000 carcases have been put through and jver 32,000 will be shipped direct because ti the Waiwera'* visit.