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By: William Gray22nd Feb 2023 6:57PMThe caption with this photo seems incorrect it states Event Boat at Westport wharf Port cranes, and Boat being loaded, the coal wharf is upstream, the wharf seen in the photo is the Lagoon wharf or also known as the Floating Basin, and it looks like either the first MILBURN CARRIER or the WESTPORT berthed there, quite likely its either one of them. Because there is no railway lines or cranes anywhere near there.

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cement ship , laid up in westport lagoon

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Westport Harbour with a ship at the wharf. Looking up river toward the Paparoa range through which the Buller river, nz's 13th longest at 177km flows.

https://madonnewzealand.com/collectables/new-zealand-trivia/general-trivia/where-is-this/1553092-new-zealand-trivia?fbclid=IwAR1N1-jNcNkVoOoq_S9c_RKyW2vNfdDl9puR43r4HuP6y-6Oj7P2la26J_0Date of PhotoBetween 1st January 1950 and 31st December 2020Map^[1]

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Location (city or town)WestportEventBoat at Westport wharfPort cranesBoat being loaded

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LinkFacebookDate Created28th February 2018CommentsDorothy Wills Wow great photo
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Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King interesting the bogies and all are lifted in one movement
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Jan Page
Jan Page Great
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Ron Pearson
Ron Pearson The hopper just sat in the frame of the bogies. They must of chained or locked it on somehow as not the norm. Maybe for a photo shoot.
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David Maciulaitis
David Maciulaitis It's an O wagon not a Q. O wagons were fixed to their chassis and we're unloaded like this or via the Staiths into the ships. The Q class or wagons included some rebuilt O wagons.
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Ron Pearson
Ron Pearson ok never knew they were ever fixed. My day they were all I guess the Q wagons.. My father leased the bins where the Stathes were. We bagged the coal from where the chutts use to be for loading the ships . Just to the north of where the Cement Silos are now. Perkins Bros. used them prior to us.
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Gordon William Bartram
Gordon William Bartram Gee the wharfies had some interesting work clothing back then...
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Vaughan Smith
Vaughan Smith Scottish waffles
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Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King what is a Scottish Waffle Vaughan just interested as to the difference Cheers
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Vaughan Smith
Vaughan Smith Scott's in kelts
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Geoffrey King Vaughan Smith thank you Vaughan i have learned something today about waffles. Cheers
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Peter Kerr
Peter Kerr Coal handling on the Westport wharf went through several stages. I do not know how the first coal was handled but staithes, with a hole in the wharf that a wagon discharged through into a storage pocket that was later chuted into shipping were early.Then the lifting of the whole wagon as shown here, followed by just the hopper being raised. At the end from stockpile via conveyor belt. The last time I was in Westport the conveyor belt was still there.

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