SHIPPING RECORD

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 166, 15 August 1929, Page 8

SHIPPING RECORD

HEAYY IXWARD CARGO BROUGHT BY HERTFORD. COAL FROM EXGLAXD. Rhipping records were estahlished in Napier yesterdav, when the Federal Line's vessel. the Hertford. hrought what is believed to he the largest inward cargo imported to Napier in one bottom. There is in all 2390 tons — the avernge shipment is about 500 or 000 tons — to be discharged, this heing made up of general cargo from west coast of England ports. Tho vessel started her discharge in the roadstead yesterdav afternoon. and it will not he titi next week that she will have coinpleted her unloading. Tncluded in tho cargo was 300 tons of Ihe first English coal to be imported to Xew Zealand for a long time. the consignees being ihe Napier Gas Compan.v, wliich had heen compelled to ado]it sueli a course owing to the usual I source of supply from Newciistle (Australia) being out off hecause of the niincrs' strike there. Partncred with the Napier Gas Corapanv in this more I or less experimental importation is the Timaru Gas Company, which lias on board the Hertford 500 or 600 tons of the sanie coal, it also heing in tho same positiou of heino- compelled to nnport their supplies from places further afiekl than Australia. The companies have to import the coal from ovorseas hecause the New Zealand coal on its own does not carhonise well, and it is necessar.v that it be mixed with better quaiity coal.