THE LOCAL PORT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2499, 28 October 1922, Page 2

THE LOCAL PORT.

PILOT’S REPORT.

The pilot reported as follows at yesterday's meel i 11 of the Foxfon Harbour Board: — ‘•When there is a fresh in the river, hacked up by an easterly gale, tin' har shallows np because there i> no sea to stir up the sand and .-dll coming down the river and consequently these deposits fill up or settle down on the bar and also fill up the channel. ’When a southerly gale i~ raging the channel on the liar drifts inwards the north spit. The mo-1 .a«lv:iiit:ioi-ous wimp for the river, channel, and bar are the WWW. |i7=W.S.W. because the sea will stir up t lie bolloin ol the bar and the river current coining ill contact with the big sea will have the elTecl ol causing the -and and -ill to -quoad on either -ide of the channel which will lie deep and good tor snmel ime.

“Stale of Bar from the 14th to lsili in.-l. :—Previous to the fresh and gale the channel was mid-way between the north and south lioacotis, since it hn> drilled to the south. In attempting to get out the

s.s. Kennedy on the .loth inst.. took the old channel and struck the bar at.the point ‘.V which caused her to drift listlessly towards the point Ts’ and with much difficulty Captain Stuart was able to steer her back to the point thus it enabled her to return to the wharf without meeting with any mishap. At her next attempt much speculation was made in the matter of guessing where the channel or the best water existed. By watching the breakers very closely they found in the midst of a very heavy sea that the same existed in the vicinity of the . line between the point- ’l)' and ‘lv and so by taking i his course the s.s. Kennedy was able to get out. Cp to the present the pilot Inis not been aide to do

;.|i v sounding work owing to ih> heavy -ca prevailing.”