POSSIBILITIES AT MOTUROA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 19, 10 June 1914, Page 5

POSSIBILITIES AT MOTUROA.

A VISIT TO i-JS PORT URGED. The Stratford Post, in a leader yesterday, says:— It is, perhaps, as well aisle to remind our readers—at any rate those who donot have, many opportunities of seeing deep-water shipping—4Jbat the largest ocean-going steamier that, has ever bertiied at New Plymouth is now lying at the breakwater, the Walfcure ftfom Hull having' arrived!' safely at the Port yesterday morning. That event ie certainly an important one, because atthough! the dredging of the fairway ho* , not yet been completed, even in the' ■ shallowest part of it the Walkure, draw- * . ing twenty-two feet of water, had not less Hum nine or ten feet of water under her, and when bertiied she had more tlhan twenty feet between her keel and the sea-bottom. To those who may, possess! doubte as to the utility of the New Plymouth Breakwater, and who da not realise the great possibilities of the harbor at Moturoa, we should advise a visit to New Plymouth! at *hii time so that they may witne r « for them solves how easily and how safely a big ship lies in that'harbor. That the Walkure is now berthed there, is very largely- due to the enterprise of Mr Newton King, whose splendid efforts on behalf of the Port of TaranaKi have been continuous and untiring, though often in the face of strong©"* opposition. That Mr King hoa faitW in the harbor's future is fully assured, and that he should be the first to charter a full *ip direct from Britain to New Plymouth is fitting and quite in keeping with hi« masterly action in many other matters affecting tft'c welmre of this province.