90 COALFIELDS AND COLLIERIES OF AUSTRALIA. 



Only small sailing craft and steamboats can enter this basin, 

 as no tugs are kept at Wollongong now. The shoots into 

 which the hopper trucks are emptied are raised and lowered by 

 hand- worked crab- winches. The loading capacity is about 

 ]300 tons per day. 



Port Kembla is the best shipping port on the southern 

 coast. There are two jetties; that known as the Southern 

 Coal Company's jetty, with three loading shoots, which is 

 leased by the North Bulli Colliery, has 35ft. of water during 

 low tide at its outer end. The Mount Kembla Coal Com- 

 pany's jetty, with two shoots, has 24ft. of water. A break- 

 water is being built by the Public Works Department, which, 

 when completed, will be 2800ft. long; about 1450ft. of it has 

 been made. When this will be finished largely depends on 

 what funds are available. For some time the work has cost 

 more than it should, because the construction has been starved 

 for want of funds, and consequently some of the men who 

 must be kept on have not been fully employed. It will take 

 at least another four years to complete, as the last half is 

 the deepest. It is proposed later on to build a second break- 

 water, 3600ft. long, in an easterly direction, almost at right 

 angles to the one now being built. When completed, this will 

 leave an entrance 800 feet wide, and give an area to low water 

 of 223 acres; or of water 24 feet and over, 12G acres. Until 

 this harbour is completed, there will be risks of delays in ship- 

 ping, in addition to the extra cost of railage to Darling 

 Harbour. 



The Wallarah Colliery has a jetty in Catherine Hill Bay, 

 at the end of which there are 25ft. of water at low tide. 

 There are four loading shoots on this jetty. The company 

 owns two colliers, the Wallarah of 750 tons, and the Illaroo 

 of 500 tons. 



Newcastle Harbour is part of the Hunter River. There is 

 a ba<r at the entrance, where the water is only 22 feet deep. 

 Vessels of 8000 tons can be berthed at Newcastle. It is esti- 

 mated that, after allowing for time in moving ships, shunting 

 coal trucks, etc., 25,000 tons of coal can be shipped per day 

 at the port, when all appliances are in use. At Newcastle there 

 are 2666ft. along the dykes for berthing deep draft cargo 

 vessels. At Bullock Island there are 5550 feet set apart for the 

 shipment of coal. At New Basin wharf, where there is a travel- 

 ling prune, there are 600 and TOO feet. At Stockton there is a 

 length of 600 feet for the shipment of coal. The A. A. Com- 

 pany's wharf at Newcastle is 1500 feet. McMyler coal dump- 

 ing machines are being erected at Newcastle, each of which 

 will be capable of dumping 500 tons of coal into a ship, a^ 

 against 100 tons by the present cranes. 



