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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13264, 31 December 1910, Page 7

In addition to the 10 o’clock train from Wanganui to Caattecliff to-night, a special train will run from Wanganui to Castlecliff at ll p.m. The Star of Canada (Tyscr Line) arrived in the readstead this morning to take in a cargo per medium of the lighters. • She will load about 6000 carcases of mutton, including a quantity from Patca, 600 bales of wool," and 150 casks of tallow. This will be ;the last Home boat to catch th£ "Mareh wpol sales ,in London. She 'Wellington on the sth. The weather fine and the sea practicallypaMqth soc losing td-day r and the big TMpel should .be able to get away by midJtp: -Kew .Zealand Shipping Company’s #J£ 'whieh sailed from here for WelUifttod b* l ' Thnrsd iy night, was the first diner to employ a full complement of “local labour in the work of loading in thit roadstead. Hitherto it has been the cruitqm for the Home boats to bring a gang-or men from Wellington for the purpo*. .it being contended that the local wAtepfide' workers were. not capable of the work. The Opawa’s excericmib,. however," has shown this to be a fdr the work was completed very etpedrtiouslv and to the full satisfaction trf.itie ship’e people. Lighters averaging 268 bales' of wool to the trip were each dwcKaiged in an hour and a half, and allowing -for the titae lost by the lighters gbing ; backwards and forwards, the loading,, averaged 112 bales per hour for the time' the ship was working.' ' feVr-. :