THE UNLOCKING OF THE PORT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 8

THE UNLOCKING OF THE PORT

FORTY-TWO SHIPS HERE, TWENTY-FIVE WORK CARGO; COAL OUTPUT BEGUN. 0 BIG PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY, One of the busiest days on tTie waterIront for months past was ospcrienced yesterday. Practically all the berths were occupied, awl by 5 p.m. most of the sheds were filled with cargo. Twentysix vessels, besides harbour tugs, coal hulks, and ferry steamers were tied iip at the quayside. Among these were eight oversea steamers, all working cargo. These were the -Kemncra, Riimtta.ka, Wairuna, Cerihthic,- Jlaunganui, Nerehaua, Matere, awl .Dorset. Including the "unemployed" in the stream, there were 42 vessels, steam and sail, in port al together. The fleet- list comprised eleven oversea steamers, and the.reniain= ing 31 vessels were coastal steamers and sailers. • In the Stream and Berthed. At o p.m. yesterday the vessels at anchor in the stream at Wellington were its follow:— ' Oversea Steamers. Gross Gro& Tons. Tons. ■ Hcrcflles 3,780 lliiuiro ... 6,825 Kia Ora... 6,560 Coastwise Vessels. 1 • • ■ Gross Gross Tons. * Tons. Kapiti " ... .242 Takapiuia; '1,03G Awa.hou 409 Ngahere... 1,090 Tutanekai '811 "VValiiiie'... 4,435 Xgatoro ... 1,137 Arahiira... 1,596 • Katoa ... 2,400 Waihi' V 57 Falcon ~, 95 Queen of South 198 The Hinemoa, 542 tvafi on the Patent Slip undergoing repairs. ,The following 20 vessels were bertheij,' and all except H.SLS. Psyche were working cargo.:-—. press . Gross . ■Tons. . Tows. i\[nnaron..,.. 122 i'emiiera 11,276 Arapawa... 268 Kaptmi ... . 150, Kiftawa. 1,247 Uirontaka 7,765 I'ukaki ... 1,444 I'oheim 1,175 Wainma... 3,94? Swau .28 H.M.S. Lizzie Psyche ~. 2,135 Taylor ... 97 Opawa 110 Blenheim 120 Hiiwera ... 200 Hiiia 127' Pa t eenft>... 1,212 Oorinthie 12,281 Jfararoa 2,598 Alexander 377 Stormbird 217 Moa 188 Maiuiganui - 7,372 >ferohana' 6,5.33 ■ Marero ... 6,4 (3 Dorset ,6,990 Twenty-four Work To-day, f l a-day the following oversea vessels will be ill at .tho berths:—Cormthie, iNerehana, Romiwra, Hercules, liliinaroa, Bimwtak'a, .Wan-uira, and jVlrmiro. Coastivise ora'ft also to be alongside to discharge and load a.r©: ' Slararoa, 2Uaj>ou.rik:i, .\l.oa, Blenheim, iliwera, I'ateena, KapUni, Pukaisij Maori. Queen of the South. Arapawa, Ni.kau, Huia, Lizzie Taylor, Puti-Ri, and I'clierua. Nesreofners a_t the berths this nio.r»ing will be the oversea steamers Hercules and Mimiro, The farmer has a cargo of Bunbury hardwood under her hatches, _ and she will tie up at Clyde Quay. The A. and A. chartered steamer Jlimirii will probably pull in to Jorvois ; Quay, No. 14. She has New York cargo to put out. The anticipations are that ' the discharge of the Nerehana's London freight will be finished to-day, and the ■steamer will then bo .shifted either to tho King's or Glasgow Wharves to begin Home leading.. .; Welcome Cftal. \ ; Amid cheers from the specials and J waterside workers- liner Dorset ' left', port for Lyttelton last eveii- '

jug. .She is. the second oversea steamer wliich has got out liar cargo - , and departed i'or southern ports. Vefy i good work has been done on this vessel i by tire Arbitrationist workers. flu: - winches of three colliers Were. rattling ' along at the Railway Wharf yesterday. ; The Wnirmia had' about 2GOO tons of Newcastle coal to lancl, 1400 tans having i - been discharged by aid unionists befo.ro j t Ihe strike commenced. Pukaki , ami S ' Polienia coal freighters wore also en- j gaged i.u tlio getting out of their West < '• Coast loading. The coal is being shot < ' into tho harbour hiilks,; and largely-re- " { ' surved for bunkering • • purposes, t • though some of it is, being distributed 1 1 to merchants in the city., C'oal-.gang j 6 foremen-who were spoken to yesterday t " by a reporter -stated that the new men * were wftdng tho coal well. They s ' were (Said the foreman) ''a bit green" at • ; first, but iliey soon got into tho swing s ! <i!' things. The result was that a good f ! clay's work had been accomplished when ■ s . 5 o'clock eiiune.d. • \ • ' { i \ Round the Quayside. * All day yesterday the Queen's Wharf { \ presented a busy scejie, and up till 10 i ' p.m. the gangs on tho Cormtliic were j going hard. Tho great majority of ' Watei'siders employed Ml this vessel y were men who had previously worked. 1 the Athcnic, and they seem to have ( i mastered the points of their new call- s ttig ivitli iiitolligsncc. Tho officers "of 5 tho Corinthie speak very favourably of J them, v After her cargo had heeii three times { across the TasmdA Sea, -.the Maunga- ' i nui got out 400' tons of general Bier- ( 'chandiso yesterday before she cast oif v for Lyttelton in the evening. Jh« nn- ]i usual sight of two Tj ser liners berthed ahead of one a.notiwr lvtis. noticeable at t Jervois Quay' yesterday. Hero the f Mare re and Iserehaiia wore both dis- t charging Home cargoes. AH coast' <1 wise steamers were busily engaged slur- v iiig tlw daj. Tltc, Union Company's Kittitwa left port for Napier, Gisbornc, .and Auckland with 1100 tons of transhipments Willochra and EinuitakaSeveral tons of town cargo was also . taken. aiva;y. _ In comparison with previous days • there appeared to be a larger number of carts going to'and fro on the, wharves,, No member of the new union Was idle. In fact, work could have been found for ± at least 100 more men. To-day will .see another blvsy time on the water- ,J* front, as several other coastal steamers ~j are due.in port. i-