History of Tauranga harbour & port
By: by Neil G. Hansen ; with preface by F.G. McKenzie ; foreword by Sir Robert A. Owens
Publisher: Port of Tauranga Ltd.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tauranga, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: History; Harbors; Port of Tauranga Ltd
Other titles: History of Tauranga harbour and port; Tauranga harbour & port; Tauranga harbour and port
Description: "... At first the idea was to record the activities of the Harbour Board but upon delving into records it soon became clear that this story should encompass the whole harbour from the first days of shipping ... This story starts with reference to the Maori prior to the advent of Europeans and ends more or less in the early 1990's with some overrun into Port Company days after 1989. The full story about the Port after 1990 is one for the future when someone else can record its progress ..." -- p. 5
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Administration (prior to 1826-); title: Harbour Board; title: Port Development; title: Shipping operations; title: Cargo and passengers; title: Transport on Tauranga Harbour; title: Royal visits; title: Visits of Naval ships; title: Hydrographic surveys; title: Harbour studies and investigations; title: Port access by land and air; title: Recreation on harbour and at sea; title: Miscellaneous happenings and mishaps :; title: How Sulphur Point got its name; title: Wreck of the SS Taupo; title: Zane Grey's visits; title: Visit of the Nahlin; title: Enemy was close in 1942; title: Aricraft into the harbour; title: Wreck of the Ranui; title: Golden Master aground; title: Oil refinery investigation; title: Sheep in the harbour; title: Waikareao Estuary development; title: Explosives magazine in the harbour; title: Derelict explosives barge in Hunters Creek; title: What was it in 1970? Ambergris; title: Tangaroa statue; title: Early wreck at the marina site.