HARBOUR METHODS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 707, 5 January 1910, Page 8

HARBOUR METHODS.

' ENGLISH/SHIP-OWNER'S VIEWS.,; Mr. -Arnold Trinder, a member'of'the shipping-firm, of-Trinder, Anderson, and Co., which-is largely engaged in the London and. Australian trade,- arrived from Sydney yesterday on a /short visit to tho Dominion. : ; ,". - '-'..■■ Only three years have elapsed since Mr. 'Trinder':, Was : last'.in Wellington,- but he has noticed considerable advancement in the equipment of the port. He told a Dominion;reporter-yesterday that ho regarded the harbour management of Wellington as particularly good. One feature that struck: him'very favourably was the system of having- all wool dumped and handled by the Harbour Board. "So far .as I know," he remarked, "Wellington is the only place in the colonies where this , 'is done, and I-consider! it is a very good arrangement. It leads to the charges for ; dumping and stevedoring which the : ships have to pay. being fixed and regular.l The' ship-o\vners, :of'course, benefit . most from; the system in. operation here, 'but other parties'probably have the satisfaction of having the wool dumped better and more' uniformly." Mr. Trinder also: remarked, upon the large number of big cranes on tho-'Wel-.lfhgtbn /wharves., It . struck . him ■ that in many.Ccases.-.such big- cranes'must-.be rather slow," were.evidently built,for -Ifeayy .lpa(ls:--' : 'In;..,d!sch'arging generW cargo;-;ships',ipuldi probably.-very often, do •;the''work-:.'more quickly with .their own gear.' '•'-. :. , ■.- ■■'•,. ' Mr.'Trinder expects to-remain in Wellington until next ■ Monday.