ON THE WATERFRONT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 10

ON THE WATERFRONT

OVERSEAS SHIPS DUE BUSY WEEK-END AHEAD After the rush of shipping last week the waterfront has presented an unusual! v quiet appearance this week, but this will not be for long, as a number of oversea steamers are due during the next few days. The Federal liners Huntingdon and Hertford will arrive here to complete loading, the former to-morro v and the latter on Sunday. Both have large shipments of dairv produce, wool, frozen meat, fruit aiid other cargo to lift, and they will sail next week for London. Two' strangers to New Zealand are due this week, the Highgate from San Franciso and the tanker Purpura from Tarakan, Borneo. The former, which is due at anv time now, has a full cargo of bitumen for the Wellington Citv Council, and the Purpura, which is due on Friday, has 6000 tons of crude oil to pump into the British Imperial Oil Company’s tanks at Aliramar. After a lapse of some weeks a shipment of Newcastle coal is due heie today in the Union Company’s collier Kairanga, which also has a consignment of hardwood poles and another of tar to land here. Direct from London and Southampton, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua is due here on Friday, with passengers and 4220 tons of cargo for this port. The C. and D. line Port Hunter, from Liverpool, via Auckland, and the Lnion Company’s motor ship Hauraki, from Pacific Coast ports, via Auckland, are also due on Friday. The former has 2000 tons of general cargo to discharge here, and the Hauraki 2150 tons, including 650 tons of gasolene and kerosene. The Canadian Challenger will arrive from the south on Sunday to load cargo for New York and Canada. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner ATataroa, the onlv oversea ship at present in port, will sail this afternoon for Auckland to complete discharging her London cargo and to continue loading.