SAILING DELAYED
UNLOADING OPERATIONS DIFFICULT Originally meant to sail for Makatea on November 29, the 7000-ton steamer Marabank which is unloading phosphate at Ravensboprne, will now leave on December 8. ‘ Her schedule for sailing was altered successively from November 29 to December 4, to December 6, and now to December 8. No work, except for a short time yesterday afternoon before the rain began to fall, has been done on the ship since Tuesday night because of ihe high winds As the Ravensbourne jetty is in a very exposed position to north-east and south winds, unloading operations can become what the Dunedin branch manager of the Waterfront Industry Commission, Mr A. Matheson, yesterday described as *• nightmarish.” The Marabank brought 9600 tons of phosphate from Nauru and Ocean Islands for discharge at Port Chalmers and Ravensbourne, arriving at the lower port on November 17.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 8
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143SAILING DELAYED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 8
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