THE PORT BUSY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1920, Page 4

THE PORT BUSY.

■DIRECT STEAMERS THIS WEEK. PROM ENGLAND AND JAPAN. A further step in the progress of Taranaki's deep water port at New Plymouth will be marked this week with the arrival of two direct steamers, the Shaw, Savill liner Mamari from England, and the Tamon Mani from Japan. j The week at the port will he a busy one. There were three steamers in over the week-end—'the Flora, the Inga, and the Kowliai—and they will complete discharge during tn-day. The Mamari leaves Wellington l<>-Jiiyl:l, arriving during to-morrow morning, and the Rarawa also comes down from Onehunga tomorrow. The Mnmari has 1700 tons of direct shipments for Taranaki, and on completing disoharge she will commence loading produce for England. The Mamari will lift 52,000 freight carcases of frozen meat on account of the Taranaki Farmers' Meat, Co., and about 500 casks of tallow and 2500 cases of preserved meats. From this port she proceeds to Waitara to load frozen meat, tallow, etc. The Tamon Maru, which is bringing 1000 tons of superphosphates from Japan, is expected on Wednesday. She sailed from Kobe (Japan) on September 23. She is this first steamer to come direct from Japan to New Plymouth, and the second Japanese steamer to visit the port.