THE LINER KIA ORA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 4

THE LINER KIA ORA.

A MISCONCEPTION REMOVED. A story which originated in Waitara gained some currency yesterday with respect to the reason for the liner Kia Ora not going to Waitara to load the allotment of frozen produce from the works there. It was suggested that the pressure of wind made it unsafe to move the vessel from the wjiarf at Aew Plymouth. This matter was.referred bv a Daily News representative to the' harbourmaster .(Captain Waller), last night, and he gave it an emphatic denial, rla states that all arrangements had been completed for taking the Kia Ora out of harbor at about 0 o'clock yesterday morning, and after work had finished on the vessel the New Plymouth agents for the Shaw Savill line communicated with Captain Waller, informing him that they had been advised from Waitara that the bar there had silted up to such an extent as to make it unsafe to lighter the produce out to the roadstead, and that it would therefore be railed in and loaded at the breakwater, New .Plymouth. There was nothing m ■ the weather conditions at anv time to prevent the Kia Ora leaving New Plymouth. She is expected to leave this evening for Wanganui and from there die proceeds on her homeward trip, via Melbourne, Hobart, and Capetown