SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1161, 28 September 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING.

The U.S.S. Company’s Ringarooma left Auckland for ; Gisborne, at 11 a.m. to-day. She may be expected to arrive in the Bay about 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, when she will sail for the south. The last boat will leave the wharf at 5 p.m. to-morrow. The ketch Forest Queen has left Common's wharf, and is now lyhr-f along, ide the Government wharf. It , is not yet decided as to where she will be sent to. Complaints are vc ry numerous as to the delay and ' inconvenience that consignees are put to with so much trouble and delay as occurs at tiie present time at the wharf. We mu .- state that there can be no doubt that the dith‘-.ilty arises from the iuw or there not being sufficient wharf accommodation to rie-.t the growing requirementof the district. The cattle wharf as per instruction s from the Government, is reserved for cattle alone when required for the shipment of the same. This we may state has been the case since Saturday night until 4 o'clock w-t.rday afternoon. TMs left only about thirty feet of wharfage for four lighters to discharge the goods from the I'.S.S. Company’s Omapere and the s.s. Oreti. it was, therefore, quite impossible to discharge more than one vessel at a time, and the fact that for half of the day there is low water, thus preventing the outside lighters getting alongside before the inside float—hence the delay. Now in the present instance, suppose the Collector of Customs had not thought proper to grant permission for the Forest Queen to go up the river and discharge her cargo at Common, Shelton and Co.’s wharf, there would have bean no wharf accommodation aliowed her until this morning. Surely this is a state of things which requires the immediate attention of pur Borough Council.