NARBADA REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 12

NARBADA REPORTS

Due Auckland Sunday

The Union Company has received a wireless message from its chartered steamer Narbada, en route from Calcutta, via Penang, Singapore and Samarang, reporting that she expects to reach Auckland on Sunday. Siie will later complete discharge at Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff, and is duo here on January 18. PORT FAIRY SAILS. ' Having completed her Homeward loading, the C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Fairy left Port Chalmers yesterday morning for Lon.dou, via Cape Horn and Dakar. INDIEN DUE TO-DAY. From Los Angeles, via Auckland, the Union Company’s chartered motor-ship Indien is due at Wellington this afternoon and will berth at the Taranaki Street Wharf. She is to leave here again on Saturday for New Plymouth, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia to complete discharge. ABEL TASMAN AT DUNEDIN. The Intercolonial steamer Abel Tasman reached Dunedin yesferday from Sydney. She will later proceed to Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland to complete discharge, and is due here next Tuesday. Holm and Co. are the local agents. PORT ALMA IN PORT. To continue her Homeward loading, the C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Alma is due at Wellington this morning from Lyttelton and will berth at the Glasgow Wharf. She is to leave here again tomorrow for Opua, Auckland and Napier to fill up, and is to clear the last-named port finally on January 29 for London, via Cape Horn and Dakar. THE KAIMIRO. The Kaimiro leaves Newcastle to-day for Port Kembla and clears there tomorrow for Wellington and Miramar. RANGITATA'S MOVEMENTS. The Rangitata, which is loading for London, will not leave Napier for Tokomaru Bay until this afternoon. Her final date of departure from Auckland, January 18, will not be affected. RANGITANE AT BALBOA. The New Zealand Shipping motor-liner Rangitane, which left Wellington on December 21 for LonQon, arrived at Balboa on January 7. KENT DELAYED. The Federal steamer Kent cannot be dispatched from Auckland for Loudon and the West Coast of England until Monday afternoon. KEIFUKU MARU. With bulk sulphur from Japan, the steamer Kelfuku Maru is due at Auckland at 5 a.m. to-day. THISTLEGLE'N FROM JAVA. With a cargo of raw sugar from Java, the steamer Thistleglen is now due at Auckland on Sunday. NAVIGATION WARNING. The DirectorjGeneral of the Post and Telegraph Department has received the following broadcast by Melbourne radio at 10.10, January S: —Master s.s. Corio reports that at 10 a.m. ou January 7. Gabo Island bearing 17 degrees distant six and half miles, sighted large floating log IS feet loflg. MONOWAI FOR SYDNEY. Tlie Union Company's liner Monowai Is to leave Wellington at 3 p.m. to-day for Sydney and Melbourne. THE WiANGANELLA. The Hud.dart, Parker motor-liner Wanganella, from Auckland, reached Sydney on Tuesday afternoon. She is to leave there again at noon on Saturday for Wellington, and is due- here next Tuesday afternoon. She will leave again the following Thursday for Sydney and Melbourne. NIAGARA’S PASSENGERS. The C.-iA. liner Niagara, which left Auckland on Tuesday for Suva, Honolulu and Vancouver, took the following passengers from New Zealand:— First class: Hon. Alport Barker, Mr. P. Barr, Mir. T. A. Bourn, Mr. and Sirs. J. T. and Masters J. 31. L and J. U. Campbell, Mr. L. H. Garnett. Mr. H. Gullen, Mr. H. J. Guthrie, Mr. H. Halliday, Mr. C. HarleyNott, Mr. J. McLean, Dr. A. H. B, Pearce, Miss E. Paltridge. Mr. J. Shand. Hon. Michael Scott. 0.8. E., Mr. E. C. Smith. Caibin class: Mr. A. J. Bance. Mr. R. Barnfather, Mr. G. C. Begg, Mr. M. A. Brennan, Mr. C. Buirke, Mr. A. Crawford, Miss D. Edwards, Mr. Emson. Mr. A. C. Goedicke. Mr. E. Johnson, Miss E. HUI, Miss C. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Haydon, Mr. E. P. Kelly. Mr. A. E. Laing, Mr. J. F. Mackie, Mr. J. Millett, Miss I. MacCausland, Mr. E. Pioli, Mir. S. G. Pyrke. Mr. and Mrs. I*, and Miss D. Russell. Mr. H. Stuyvolaar. Mr. G. C. Smart, Mr. H. C. Tingey, Mr. J. H. Waller, Mr. H. Waring, Mir. F. E. M. Warner. MANOHESiTEiR CANAL TRAFFIC. The approximate traffic receipts of the Manchester Ship Canal for October totalled £93,2156, compared with £00,192 for the corresponding month of last year. The receipts for tlie first ten months of this year were £975,732, against £918,771 for the period January-October, 1933, an increase of £56,961. BOMBAY’S RECORD YEAR. In the year 1933-3+ shipping traffic at the port of Bombay reached, for the first time in history, the five-million-ton mark, the actual figures being 1913 vessels of 5,099,2+7 tons net, compared with 1836 of 4,691,183 tons in 1932-33, and a previous record of 1965 vessels of 4,895,326 tons in 1929-30. The amount of cargo handled at the docks and bunders was 5.272,000 tons, an increase of 553.000 tons (12 per cent.) over the previous year, imports rising by 6.8 per cent, and exports by 20.6 per cent. In these circumstances, states the “Syren and Shipping,” it is not surprising to find a note ot restrained optimism running through the annual report of the Port Trust Commissioners., They state that although the main obstacles to international trade continued to operate during the year, and any prospect of their early removal was shattered by the breakdown of the World Economic Conference in July, 1933, faint but encouraging signs of improvement in trading conditions were discernible in the latter part of the period, and there was a revival of industrial activity in India and some other countries. India itself was vouchsafed a satisfactory and well-distributed monsoon and freedom from political disorders. During the first six months of 1933-34 the volume of trade handled in the port of Bombay appreciably exceeded the budget expectations of a 2 per cent, improvement, but the imposition of heavy additional duties to safeguard indigenous industries, and the retaliatory measures adopted by other countries—notably Japan's boycott of Indian cotton from July to December, 1933—adversely affected the trade.returns of the latter half. One outstanding event in regard to which Bombay has good reason for satisfaction was the decision reached by the Government to abolish, with effect from April 1 last, the non-refundable town duty of one rupee per bale on raw cotton,, which had severely handicapped the cotton trade and tlie port’s revenues since its imposition in 1920. TO-DAY’S BERTHAGE LIST. Queen's Wharf—Monowai (No. 1 south). Hawera (No. 5), Kapiti (No. 5), Parera (No. 6). Holmdale (No. 6). Koutounui (No. 7). John (No. 8), Matangi (No. 12) Talisman (No. 13), Fairburn (No. 13) Maui Pomare (No. 1+ north). Ferrv Wharf—Wahine, Matal. Glasgow Wharf—Port Alma, Karamea. King’s Wharf—lnaha, Kapuni, Opawa. Clyde Ouav Wharf—Kini, Wingatui. Ta'ranaki St. Wharf—Ngahau, Indien. Burnham Wharf—Paua. Patent Slip—Maori. Kini, Totara. In the Stream—Kaiwarra, Hlmatangi, Totara. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations last night:-— AUCKLAND: Filefjell. Hidlefjord. Kiefuku Maru. Mariposa. Niagara. Sydney Maru. Triona. Waipahi. WELLINGTON: Akaroa. Aorangi. Australia. Cambridge. Canadian , Constructor, indien. Laburnum. Leith, Matai, Mataro.% Maui Pomare. Maunganui. Alma. Rangatira. Rangitane, Rangitata, Retnucra. Rotorua. Tamahine, Wahine, Walpawa. Yarraville. VW VRUA: Abel Tasman, Canadian Highlander. City of Glasgow, Justin, Kalingo, Mahcno. Makura, Mamari, Poolta, Port, Fairy, Thistle Glen.