Harbour Roundabout

There's always something doing on the waterfront—ships coming and going, cargoes being loaded and unloaded, and improvements being made to one of Gisborne's most vital centres of communication.

Fishing boats frame picture of rare caller from Suva, the Babinda, which arrived last month with a cargo of posts and rails.

Harbour Board has made a start with replacement of section of wharf near fish depot. Derricks here are for driving piles.

One of the Board's new engineering workshops.

Trade in a rural port: Trainload of sheep for export moves along line to freezing works (left), while at right workers load posts for fencing on farms.

Fishing fleet at anchor in the harbour basin on a day too rough for sailing. The time is well spent in maintenance of ships and gear

Men are splicing steel hawser.

Remember the Harbour Board pontoon which capsized while tied up to the wharf? (Photo News, 20/10/55). This is its successor—an all-steel job which is now nearing completion.

The Harbour Board launch Takitimu athwart the stern of the Kaitangata in port to unload coal.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 33 : April 4, 1957

Harbour Roundabout