DANGER TO FERRIES
CONGESTION IN BASIN MENACE OF BIG SHIPS The North Shore representative on the Harbour Board, Cr. J. Hislop, last evening drew the attention ot the Devonport Borough Council to the necessity for stricter control of the traffic In the basin between Queen’s and Prince’s Wharf to obviate danger of ferry traffic from oversea boats. So far back as 1922 the sup-
ject had been raised, and a recent happening in which a ferry steamer was hemmed in by two big ships, had drawn the Harbour Board’s attention again to the danger. The harbourmaster had dropped a by-law and every pilot supported it. The shiping companies were against the proposed by-law and had a majority of two on the board. In Sydney retrictions had been in force for over 20 years, and the big ships had been cleared out of the ferry basin. The Borough Council was unanimous that control was essential, and the Minister of Marine is to be asked to interest himself in the subject. Mr. T. Walsh drew attention to the need for enforcing the by-law limiting the speed of big ships moving in the harbour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 8
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