ROTORUA REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 10

ROTORUA REPORTS

Due Here 7 a.m. Wednesday The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua, from London, left Suva at daybreak yesterday. Advice received by radio from the liner states that she will arrive here at 7 o’clock on Wednesday morning. She will sail the same day for Port Chalmers. THE AORANGI DUE. The Union Company’s Canadian Australasian liner Aorangi, which left Vancouver on January 2 for Honolulu, Suva, Auckland and Sydney, is due at Auckland tomorrow. She will sail at 5 p.m. on. Monday for Sydney, where she is due on January 25. MAUNGANUI ON MONDAY. The Union Company’s liner Mauuganui. which left Sydney on Thursday for New Zealand, is due at Wellington on Monday, and leaves on the following day for Rarotonga, Papeete and San Francisco. TANKER ATHELREGENT. The Union Steamship Company’s chartered tanker Athelregent, which sailed on December 26 from San Pedro, is due in Wellington at 6 p.m. to-morrow, bringing a cargo of bulk fuel oil. IMPERIAL STAR. The Blue Star Line have been advised by cable that their new motor-ship Imperial Star, which left Belfast in ballast for Auckland on her maiden voyage on January 3, has now passed through the Panama Canal, and sailed from Balboa on Wednesday afternoon. She is expected to reach Auckland on February 4. MAHENO TO-MORROW. The Union Company’s Maheno. from Melbourne, via Milford Sound. Bluff and Lyttelton, will arrive here to-morrow. On Monday she will commence her return trip to Melbourne, again calling at Bluff and Milford Sound. KALINGO AT NEWCASTLE. The Union Company’s steamer Kalingo, now loading in Australia, sails this morning from Newcastle, this evening from Port Stevens, and from Sydney on Monday for Auckland and Wellington. WAIPAWA FURTHER DELAYED. The Shaw, Savill motor-ship Waipawa, now at Auckland, will not load, at Wellington until oJauuary 29; her final sailing for London, via the Panama Canal, will be on January 31, at 5 p.m. THE CANADIAN SCOTTISH. Canadian National Steamship’s vessel the Canadian Scottish, which sailed from Halifax on December 29 for Auckland, bas passed through the Panama Canal; she sailed from Balboa on January 13, and is due at Auckland on February 7. Her other ports of discharge will be Wellington, where she is due on February 11, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. MONOWAI SAILS. The Union Company’s liner Monowai left Melbourne on Wednesday, and Sydney yesterday at noon, for Auckland. She is due there on Monday afternoon. CANADIAN VICTOR AT BALBOA. Canadian National Steamships have been advised bv cable that the Canadian Victor, which sailed from Lyttelton on December 15 for New York, Boston and Halifax, reached Balboa on January 13. MESS-TABLE GOSSIP. Captain W. D. Archibald is now in command of the Abel Tasman. CANADIAN BRITISHER COMING Wireless advice received by Canadian National Steamships front the Canadian Britisher which left Halifax on December 6 for Auckland, states that she will arrive there on Tuesday. She will discharge and load at Auckland. Wellington, being due here on January 28, Lyttelton and Dunedin. As the Britisher is inaugurating the new service with calls at only New Zealand ports, she will return from Dunedin to Halifax, via New York and Boston. KUMARA IN BALLART. The Shaw. Savill and Albion steamer Kumara is to leave London for New Zealand in ballast on January 26 to load for Great Britain. The vessel will come ,o New Zealand, via the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney.

ANG'LO-OANIADTAN TO LOAD. The motor-ship Anglo-Canadian, chartered by G. 11. Scales, Ltd., which left Vancouver on December 14 to discharge at Australian ports, is now due at Picton from Port Pirie to commence loading wool about February 12. She is to complete at Lyttelton, Bluff, Port Chalmers, and Wellington, sailing about March 2 for Dunkirk, Antwerp and London. REMUERA DUE. The New Zealand Shipping Company s liner Remuera, which left London on December 13 for Wellington and Auckland,, is due to arrive here to-morro-w. THE NEW FAR EASTERN VESSELS, SCHARNHORST & GNEISENAU. The chief dimensions of the steamers Scharnhorst and Gnei ? ena ’ l > , nO 'S. construction at the yards of the Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau Akttengesekksegaft, Werk: Act. Ges. Weser, and which will be placed in the Far Eastern service of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen this year, are as follow: —Length between tile perpendiculars. 610 ft.; breadth moulded! 73ft! 9}in.: height of sides to the main deck 44ft. Ilin.: depth of bulkheads, 29ft., deadweight all told, about 11.000 tons. Each steamer will be measured for about 18 000 tons gross. Each steamer will b . able to carry roundly 300 passengers in the first class and tourist class and the crew of each steamer will number about -6.1 ""it is proposed to entrust the command of the Scharnhorst to Captain Waktlier Stein, of the s.s. Coblenz. BY TELEGRAPH. OVERSEAS. LONDON, January 17. Arrived.—At Eastham. Trojan Star; at Cristobal. Port Hobart. Sailed. —From Vancouver. Wairuna: from San Francisco, Makura; from . Balboa, TalDUl ’ SYDNEY. January 18. Sailed—From UUladulla, South Coast, Port Waikato, for Wellington. Sailed.—Monowai (12.40 p.m.), for Auckland. „ SUVA, January 17. Sailed. —Aorangi, for Auckland. January 18. Sailed.—Rotorua, for Wellington. BY TELEGRAPH. COASTAL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. AUCKLAND. , Sailed. —Karetu (2.15 a.m.), for Napier; Poolta (12.50 p-m.), for Westport; Marama (3.20 p.m.), for Sydney: Rangitata (6.15 p.m.), for London; Port Whangarei (S p.m.), for Wellington. To Sail.—Kanna (10 p.m.). for Noumea. WANGANUI. Arrived.—Holmglen (3.15 p.m.), from Wellington. PORT AHURIRI. Sailed.—Kiwitea (12 noon), for Wellington. PIOTON. Arrived.—Gale (1.30 a.m.), from Wellington. KAIAPOI. Arrived.—Scow Ngahau (3 p.m., January 17), from Wellington. AKAiROA. Sailed.—H.M.S. Leith (8.30 a.m.), for Lyttelton. PATEA. Arrived.—Hawera' (7 a.m.). from Wellington; Kapuni (7.15 a.m.). from Wellington. BI7BNHEIM. Arrived.—Echo (6.45 a.m.), from Wellington. LYTTELTON. Arrived.—Storm (5.30 a.m.), from Timaru; Wahine (0.45 a.m.), from Wellington; Holmdale (11 a.m.) and Oplhi (noon), from Timaru; H.M.S. Leith (1.45 p.m.), from Akaroa. Sailed.—Storm (12.45 pMT and Holmdale (3.25 p.m.), for Wellington; Opawa (4.3 u p.m.), for Dunedin; Oplhi (4.50 p.m.), for Wellington; Indlen (6.30 p.m.), for Dunedin; Tees (6.35 p.m.), for Chatham Islands; Wahine (8.20 p.m.), for Wellington. DUNEDIN. Arrived. —Maheno (1-30 a.m.), from Bluff; Wakakura (11.45 a.m.), from Oamaru. Sailed. —Maheno (2.30 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Breeze (6.30 p.m.). for Timaru. BLUFF. Sailed. —Port Gisborne (1.15 p.m.) for Port Chalmers; Waimarino (7 p.m.) for Dunedin.