BUSY WHARVES AT WANGANUI

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 6

BUSY WHARVES AT WANGANUI

SHORTAGE OF LABOUR LIKELY FOUR OVERSEAS, FOUR COASTAL VESSELS One of the heaviset volumes of shipping on record will be handled at the port of Wanganui during the next few days, and an acute shortage of labour is likely. Both the North German Lloyd steamer Anhalt and the Bank Line steamer Forresbank are scheduled to discharge sulphur and phosphate al the Castlecliff Wharf to-day for Kempthorne, Prosser and Company s fertiliser works at Aramoho, while the Tongariro loads frozen produce and wool for Home markets in the roadstead. The Anhalt arrived on Sunday morning from New Orleans, and the Forresbank was expected to berth last night from Nauru Island. The fourth overseas vessel, the Union Co.’s Kalingo, is due on Friday with coal from Newcastle and Sydney. Two coastal vessels are due at th? Town Wharf to-day, the Breeze, from Wellington, with a large consignment of general cargo, and the Hauturu, from Onehunga, with a heavy shipment of sugar. To-mor-row, the Holmdale is due with general cargo from Picton, and the twin-screw steamer Rata with 806 tons of Westport coal. “We have had a bad month because of weather conditions,” reported the chairman of the Harbour Board, Mr. N. G. Armstrong, to the board yesterday. “We had to refuse the Postella. Our cool stores are now in debit, due to less produce coming into store.

Zoning of dairy factories and increa. ing local sales of butter mean ths less butter is coming into our stores