Mechanising Papeete's Waterfront
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A photograph of the copra-loading machinery recently installed on the Papeete wharf by the
Tahitian Government. Each machine will shift copra from wharf or ship at 30 tons per hour, weighing it en route.
The machinery was supplied by the Sutorbilt Corporation, an American firm. It can be worked by gas, steam, diesel or electricity.
Island ports that are having stevedoring troubles (and that includes all in the South west Pacific area to-day), should be vitally interested in this mechanised copra shifting. —Photo by Frederick Simpson.