WHARF FACILITIES
CRANE AND ACCOMMODATION NEEDED
A CARRIER’S COMPLAINT
The need for greater accommodation on the Whakatane wharves and also for a crane for lifting purposes was mentioned by Mr A. Hall at last Thursday’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce an interesting address by Mr W. R. Boon (Chairman of the Harbour Board) on the development of the harbour over the years since 1913.
Mr Hall said that the railways was making a strong bid to capture the freightage from this district and was actively engaged in canvassing the out districts for that purpose. He knew too that it was meeting with considerable success and unless the Harbour Board was going to offer better facilities it would mean a serious falling off in its revenue. He criticised the fact that no carrier was able to back load to the wharf unless he had previously sought permission to bring the goods in and store them on the wharf. It was often impossible to do this and the shipping suffered as a result. Again the Railway had installed heavy hoists at both Taneatua and Edgecumbe, while at the wharf there was nothing to assist in the loading apart from the ship’s davits when a vessel was in port. It waS high time the Board was alive to the deteriorating position as far as heavy loading was concerned.
Mr Boon said he welcomed the criticism which he knew was constructive and which would be followed up by the Board. Mr W. Sullivan emphasised the importance of coastal shipping services upon, which he said the prosperity of the East Coast towns had been built'. It would be a very unthoughtful and shortsighted gesture if the •businessmen of the town ever patronised other means of transport and it would do a lot of harm to the whole district. From a national point of view it was important- that the shipping be preserved,' while as far as the town itself was concerned the cheaper freights enabled the selling prices of goods in our town to compare favourably with anywhere else in the Dominion.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 63, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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348WHARF FACILITIES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 63, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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